Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-12-11

ESSs"S also demolished a
|tmAyzA fence with which
"cottager" had
Undertaken 10 close a path that had
been free for a generation, and the old
settlers who met at the store to talk 1t
over were not 80 sympathetic as they
might have been.
"AaIn't nothin' % bad, but 1t could
be wus, Isaac" asserted Cap'n Pomer-
oy, who was deaf and dogmatic. "The
boss might "a missed that air fence
he argued, with the confidence of one
who is seldom contradicted. He might
"a Slowed into the main road n tramp
ed on a young one, whereas, you bein'
selec'man, he's saved you n Pilsbury
the job of havin' the fence took down,
consequently
THAT don't pay me for ten bushel O.
corn," the storekeepsr ventured to sug
gest
"Heyw
"Ten bushel o. cornv' the storekee
repeated. Then, as Cap'n Pomeroy
sDarled disapproval, and the others
seemed equally ready to question his
public spirit he hastened to add: "Oh,
I'm glad IS you be that the fence is
down; l don't begredge the corn. not
any to speak Of. amt a-goin' to say
I'm glad l lost 1t. though; can't expect
me tew. can ye?"
"HeyT'
"'Iildy Peters would hev," another
Ipeaker put in. He had entered so
quietly that the storekeeper jumped
aside. surprised, and thereby gave him
an opening to the most coveted corner,
close to the cracker barrel 1t was n
place that the storekeeper found 1t
safer to reserve for a toothless pa
triarch, but since the thing was done he
made the best of 1t.
whats that about 'Tildy. Uncle
Aaron?" he inquired.
"Oh, tn amt no great Of a story
about her. 1t wuz her gin'ral disposi-
don, g ye might say. that made me
speak up. Thankful Tidy every body
called her.
"She n her man lived over on the old
Bascom place. Lived there till some
where's bout 80. n then they moved
out West, n last heard Of 'em Sim
found a gold mine n they waZ big US
any toads In the puddle. s'picion gold
mines must lay on top O. the ground
out in that country, Sim never would a
dug fer one-not In his right mind, he
wouldn't
"Lazier n sam Hill, he wuz. arays
plannin' out ways to save work. n
lettin' things go while he fggered on
'em. Didn't hev no downright bad
habits, We know. Jest plain lazy WIZ
la y - -,
looked like Poorhouse Corner. Hers
wuz different, mind ye, n so was she
Never no hens roasted on her while
she wuz inventin' a aig -gatherer, l bate
ye!
You'd "a thought she'd worried
about Sims bein' 80 easy goin'; but We
can't tell nothin' about women-folks.
For all she wuz 50 spry, nobody ever
heerd her find fault 1t wuz all t'other
way. If he did somethin'-or didn't do
somethin'-that stirred up a muss, she
alays fished round till she found q
blessin' in it
II r'collect her proceedin's one time,
n / guess t wuz the only time, that
Sim did somethin' like work. 'Twixt
one thing n another. he KEEP 1t up for
nigh fortnit Fust it wuz to git rid Of
a woodchuck that had growed up fond
O. garden sass. Sim didn't have no
state fair election O. g'tables when
the woodchuck sot in, but putty soon
they begun to look like the fag g-end o.
desolation. The critter wouldn't touch
anything with pison in it Sim tried
him. faithful Looked a. though tn
,,,1,- tbfpr to DO xr,1,1 $0 dfy him
II dknow whether you ever started
10 onearth a woodchuckf l hev: it's
easier talked about than donA. A good
mart woodchuck d. burrer to Chiny,
k you could head him straight down.
btm followed this ones trail bout thirty
loot, n then he didn't pear TO be any
bearer the woodchuck's bedroom n he
wuE at first When Sim quit diggin',
eount O. takin' a crick In bis back, 1 f'r !
%ne didn't feel to blame him.
"'T wuz Jest about the time he quit
hat q story got round consarnin' old
Dap'n Bascom. Some says 1t started
with a shipmate O. his, that knowed
pertain, that the Cap'n brung home
rood deal O. money from his last cruise.
ao udu LOueS, "uSh ho oooDe " e'"'
but when he died the only vallybles /
nat wuz found on him wuz silver
khre'pence n a snuffbox. Jim Bascom,
hat was his brother, lived n died
without any clew to any more. But
this ere story had 1t that the Cnp'n had
belt full when he left Portland 10
some home, the last time, n must a
brought II to the island.
$50 whilst the crick wu1 gfttin' ont
II his back. Sim he puppOsed to do
Iome prof table meditatin'. Didn't
.eem to him the Cap'n would a hid
ais money in the house, fr Aunt Polly
would hev found 1t (she was master
hand for findin' out things that didn't
Delong to be-. Aunt PolJ- wa. Over