The Irish standard., 1894-04-28

"Pearce Amerson's will! Why, my
Lord, got nothin' to do long OF
Pearce Amerson's will, exceptin' l
were one O. the witnesses, and ben
sorry for that ever sence heard how
ag'in' Cullen it went, that were my
favorite 'mong his two boys, and
told Vile so. But that's every blessed
thing had to do with it!'
''It mayn't be that, Uncle Lishy. AS
for that will, it's shame it were ever
made, and it'll be pity if it amt
broke"
Come, now, Gustus, come, now;
can't foller you fur as that. A mans
willis his will. The law say that, and
it won't let her be broke onlest they is
mighty plain good reason for it. The
law, they tell me, is very p'inted in
sech case, which and it ought to be. }"
That may be so; but s'pose the old
man thought he done destroyed it
after making it, and s'pose he were
Rendered from destroying it by some
body unbeknownst, which to my opin-
ion that's SOP"
''Ah, Gustus, but such as that
have to be prove pine-blank. It's a
troublesome case all round. Poor Gull
len! but it amt a-hurtin' of him now.
Yet there's his widder and orphin child
that it seem ruther hard On them. [
been a-hopin' they'd colnpermise it,
which as for breakin' a will dry SO, be-
cause it don't read accordin' to what
people think they'd do if it was them
and theirn, can't but be ag'in' sech
as that l got a will myself which
some mayn't like when I'm gone, and
the beginnin' of a example O. breakin'
wills out and out, 'thout up and down
good reason, can't go to that extent
myself. Well, I'll swallow the balance
of my toddy and then go and see what
Arthur Dabney want with me-"
Repairing to the office and assigned
chair he took from his pocket a bis
cut and said:
"Arthur--1 call you Arthur because
you was raised right there by me, and
you've never talked or done like you
feel like you got above your raisin'--"
THAT'S right, Mr.. Flint. That's
what prefer you to call me-
"Jes' SO; be it SO, then. l were goin
20 say that Gustus Rachels told me you
wanted to see me, and so I've come;
and if you hain't a objection to it, I'll
eat biscuit, because I've jes now took
q teddy at Gustus' Big lnjun, as they
call it, and she amt goin' to do me the
good benefits I'm a-countin' ON from
her 'itbout put little somethin' on
top of her where She went, if you'll ex-
cuse me-"
Certainly, Mr.. Flint; make yourself
entirely at home. I thank you for
coming. only want to chat with you
little about old man Amersou's will.
wasn't it?''
every onfort'Sate, and a onexpect-
eder to me don't reject"
IL had heard that you were much
surprised and a good deal distressed
by it. Indeed. SO far as can hear,
everybody in Baldwin county is-ex-
cept, of course. Wiley Anderson, who
thinks he has everything in his sling,
as they say"
bition kind of man about the gittin' o
prop'ty and holdin' on to it. There's
where Wiley got it. Now his mother
were differ'nt, and Cullen he t, - Is
ter her, A fine boy, a uncommon u-4e:
boy! It weren't right; that is, to my
opinion, which business it's none O
mine; but to me it don't appear right;
but there it is, you see, Arthur. Now,
that will you writ for me, one o my
&c.. T5v,,
out O. the way, but the law, you know,
is ag'in the
That's all perfectly true, Mr.. Flint.
Regarding your will, other people,
whether John thinks SO OR not, will
say it was right, and certainly there
can be no suspicion regarding it. This
case is very different In this there
has been great fraud son.ewher
it is Of utmost Importance to
what it was l wanted to see you and
ascertain what you might remember
in your intercourse with Pearce Amer
son to show that he had not such pref
erence for Wiley over Cullen as that
will indicates"
Mr.. Flint stopped carefully, picked
up a crumb, and, going to window,
threw it out. Resuming his chair, he
said, smiling:
my old 'oman frekwent gives me
scold about drappin' crumbs about;
hut as to that, don't know as know
anything exceptin' what everybody
know in our settlement. The old man
ANDERSON were monst'ous fond O.
Cullen, seem like to me, till
he got married to Harnah En-
low, when seem like soon arter that he
got put out ag'inst him; but then, in
no long time, about a year or sech a
matter, thought he had got riconciled
to him, and even a-includin' of Hannah.
[ know he was monst'ous proud when
their baby come and they named it
AFTER him; that's what make it all
'stonish me SO. Why, sir, I've heard
him up till not two month before he
taken sick, of frekwent a-goin' on
about Harnah, what q fine, industrious
wife she were to Cullen, and turnin'
out SO fur better than he ben a-ex-
pectin' from what some people had
told him about her"
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