Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-08-11

the bosses? They're always loOkin' as
If somebody was huntin' 'em-the
other bosses they're OWN | suppose
for stuff that's been bought ON credit
an can't be paid for till some jub's
done an the money got for it. There's
others of EN- that look as if they
thought all their men were stealth
stutf, or knockin' off an talkin' the
minute there was nobody watchin' 'em.
Dye suppose I'm goin' to put myself
in some such FOOLS place just because
my only son who's got too much
knowledge for his good, an got above
the hringin up of his family for
hundred years back, wants me to act
as if | was bigger than l am, an
smarter, too? Not bit of it; I'm no
such fool. "
lyon know perfectly well, father"
replied Shotway, THAT | don't want
to add a single trouble to those You
had. Iou were good father to me,
and | want to he good son to YOU
You shan't have any trouble about
money matters, if you will do as |
ask, and use your brains M we'll as
your hands, I'll supply all the neces-
sary capital, and hire first class fore
man who shall do all worrying and
hard work. All you need to do is TO
appear as the head of the business, and
act the man that | know you are, and
let me show You to all the friends |
have in business, and give me chance
to be proud of you in public as well as
i'll private. II certainly can't be
wrong for son to wish that his father
may be respected by men who amount
to something.
Zone word for me an two for your
self, my boy. | don't doubt you wish
me well, and want to do what, accord
in to your own lights, would be the
best for me, but you're thinkiu' of
somethin for yourself all the time, an
it amt much trouble for me to see
what it is. | amt no fool; | read
ev'rythin' the newspapers say about
you, an I'm pleased with IL good deal
of it. You've done lots of things for
me since you come to be fore-handed,
an I've took the will for the deed hut
| amt blind. I've seen what YOU was
up to. You wasn't satisfied to stick to
what yonr family had always been the
best of their kind ut, an Won ran into
another business, an You think YOU
know lot more than your father, an
now you want the old man to shape
his course Ly you. Well, he amt
a-goin to do it. I'm glad enough that
you get twenty or thirty times Hs much
money year as your father, an |
don't quarrel with your tastes, man
beln his own master after he y twenty
one, an nobody havin right to pre-
vent him But, boy, mark what | say:
| come twenty-one forty year ago, an
I'm not goin' to forget it for any young
upstart who thinks he's somebody be-
cause he knows some things that his
father didn't, not to say anythin'
about the things not bcin' worth
KNOWN, except SO far as they bring i'll
money, which, anyway, amt good for
anythin' except to spend.
"What did you mean by saying 'onc
word for me and two for yourself -
asked the son. "You don't imagine
that / want to make any money out of
you IN the new position I've suggested,
do you?"
''No, son; there's nothin mean all
underhand in you, unless you put it
into yourself; there never was any
thin of the kind in my family or your
mothers, God bless her. But there's !
somethin up; trust IA father for rend- /.
in his own sOn-ah stop frownin'; /
your lawyer look can't throw me /
off the scent. There's woman on
your mind-ah frowning won't help /.
you; turn around in front of the look |
mi lass an see the red that's come in /,
your face Ill n minute You needn't I
be ashamed of it, neither; it does you /.
credit, an shows that you've kept your
heart clean, which | wish your dead /
and-g mother could look into your
face this minute and see. Well, marry
her, if she'll have you. Your father .
wishes You well, an gives You his
blessin'. What else do you want him
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81 want my wife, if ever | get one"
said Shotway, "to respect my father
AS | do; and you ought to know very
well by this time that in this grand
country no one is respected ut all un-
less he is all that he might be. You've
got no vices; you've clear head and
an honest heart, and it's shame for
you not to take advantage of cirrum-
stances and appear to the best advan.
tage as what you are
A hard laugh WAS for moment the
only answer to this speech then the
older man said;
"Ah! boy, the trouble with You is
that you've got too much knowledge.
Because You know some things your
father don't, an isn't sure he'd care to
know 'em if he could, you expect me
to follow the course that you're workin'
on. Well, / won't do it; now you've
got it fair an square. Now go off to
the kind that you've took to, thinkin'
1T better than that you was brought up
among. There's been lots of learnin'
come into the world, an gone ont of
it, an them that had it is nowhere
now; but bricklayin' has to go on in
the same old way, an the man that
knows how to do it has his work to
show for him long after he's dead an
gone. You're my son, an l love you
honest an full, as l always did an al
ways am goin' to; but the trouble with I
you-is that you've got too much knowl-
edge-you've got so much that it's
givin' you a pain, an you're tryin' to |
pass the pain along to your dad. He
won't have none of lido you mind
what say2 An what sort of fool girl
have you set your heart on?-oh, / {