The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-08-23


'flicted and can't hep ~. en- dat ain &c
mighty ofn. Now, you know yourself
II ain, en- you earn deny IT, II mostly
when he git money from dat Mis- VILE
Am'son; dat when il mostly air"
Eyes, and wish the poor boy had
never seen him"
"Ah, well, my miss. dc Lord'n per-
wide; de Scriptur say dat"
One night, after owen had been In
bed near week, Rachels came in. A
visit from him always gratified the
widow and was flattering To Owen. He
demanded and got fresh coverlet, and
so disposed himself as TO appear be-
coming object of sympathy. The visit
or, well understanding his soft, feeble
words of greeting, after shaking hands
passed on TO the fireplace, where his
mother was sitting, took n chair and
chatted with her about several matters
in the town. In little while ne said:
"Missis Carruthers, everybody seems
10 have their opinion about the way
old man ANDERSON left his property,
and thought I'd ask what you thought
of it,"
"Why, Mr.. Rachcls, I do think it's
the very outragcorsest and the mean
est will that ever heard Of anybody's
making, be they respectable or disre.
spectacle"
But, ma" cried Owen, as IL Impatient
at another OF her oft-repeated eX-
prcssions I'm the matter, ''you won't
consider that the law OF the land let's
everybody do what they blame please
with their property when they've done
with il themselves"
$50 I've heard you say often, my son.
and been told So by other people. But
| can't help from having my opinion
that II is a pity for man To give
almighty nigh every bit of his property
to one child and him not a-deserving
of il nigh rs much as tho other that's
cut down 10 what in comparison is a
little scrap"
You are perfectly right, Missis
Carruthers," said Rachcls, turning a
look of mild rebuke towards the
couch. "Such as that is pity, and
gently it's founded on some sort OF
devilment, some'res; and it's another
pity that dcvilmcnt can't always be
found out. People all over the county
is Disguised with such treatment OF
Cullen ANDERSON. who was worth more
than n cow-pen of the sort OF Vile,
and him now dead, but leaving n
widow and child-Owen," and he
turned directly towards him. you
ought to know something about that
will business. YOU was one of the
witnesses"
YES, Gus, was. AS for the old
man Anderson not being in his sound
senses, there weren't any sort OF doubt
about that"
Nobody denies that; but the ques-
ton is how come he To make such
will, and the question is what he done
with it afterwards. Did you know
what was in it when you signed it?"
THAT | didn't, no more than Billy
Lilly and old man Flint, not one
rain"
"Din't you never hear the old man
and Wiley talk anything about it?"
well now, Gus" removing the COW
erlet from off his breast, there's such
thing as that man ought 10 be ruth
er particular in the way fellow talks
about anything that he wasn't expect
ed To talk ut all"
"Owen, just right here, before just
me and your mother, you might as
well come down off that high horse. |
which it's no occasion for you To be |
there Mt such time and on such a
matter. You know I'm after no mean
ness in trying To git you To say what |
You oughtn't. You've got To tell some |
time in the court house what YOU |
know. can tell you as "a friend, that |
never tried to do you any harm in your |
life, that your telling me what you |
know won't hurt you, and il may do |
good when it's mighty plain some |
good ought IN be done if it can be |
done"
Lord, Gus Rachels," he answered,
with some scorn, yet showing that he |
felt that he was with his superior, I'm
on no high horse, and don't want To be.
You know know you're n friend To
mc-and ma-the best we've got; and
I'm not afraid you want to get me into
difficulties, | know monst'ous little
about the thing anyway. and"
What did the old man say To Vile
about making the will?"
"You interrupt q man that way.
when | was going on 10 say that did
happen To hear the old man say, one
time, and not but one time that IL that
piece, Hannah Enlow, expected To get
any Of his property, she'd find herself
She might disgrace the
family, he said, but she'd get nothing
by il. He said them words, or some
like EN-, one day as he came in the
Office room when was busy writing,
from out the back room, where him
and Mr.. ANDERSON had been talking to-
gether for some time. don't think he
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