The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-07-26
A STORY OF WEBSTER.

Professional business at the bar of the
was, at that time, the most distinguished
ornament, led the late Daniel Webster to
Portland, Maine. He found that he should
be detained there, in waiting for a case to
come up, long enough to give him a day or
two's shooting in the neighborhood. AS
he was inquiring of the clerk of the hotel
the direction to piece of woods where he
had heard woodcock were to be found in
abundance, bystander-a countryman
who was driving trade for some apples
of his own raising at the counter-step-
ped, and informed him ''that he belonged
out that way himself, and could probably,
You want to go out over the Scarboro'
road, squire" said he, "abeout three mile
n a half then you go down hill, n over
bridge, they is, t tn bottom; then you
go long-well' fifty or sixty rods-'n
you'll come to a pair of bars on the left
hand side. Well, you let them down, n
better put 'em up agin after ye, cause the
creeturs might git eout. Then you drive
thro' the field; guess three e-quarter-of-a-
mile; then you make one turn to the right,
up the hill, n that'll bring We right eout
by Seth Ilslcy's barn; that's right in sight
O. the place that you want to go to-,
"Well, WE'LL" said Mr.. Webster, "but
isn't this direction getting rather compli
Gated. I don't know Seth Ilsley's barn
from any other barn in the State of Maine
Pm total stranger here"
90, well! you'll see old Ilsley out
reound there; he's alters out, fussin'
reound in his shirt-sleeves; you'll see
him"
But" replied Mr.. Webster, "that will
be no better for me; don't know Ilsley
when 1 see him."
20 wall, squire, you'll know him quick
enough; why, everybody, most, knows
him. I'll tell We about him, SOS you'll
know him as quick as you clap your eye
On him. This here Ilsleys a great, fat
man; he'll weigh upwards of three hum
dred, anytime; I've heerd him tell it four
hundred; he'll tell it accordin' as he
thinks folks is callatin to believe; but he
is some thicker than he is long, anyway,
and there's one thing about him, he'll have
nankeen trOuserf on, at any time o year,
sure. Ye see, squire, the fact of it IS, he
took a piece of nankeen here, more than
eight years ago, for bad debt, of man
that owed him, and his wife don't allow
him to wear nothin' else,-not till that's
all gone l used to pity the old feller last
year he use't hev 'em pretty well into
October. She runs of notion, Miss lis
ley does, that she's tailoress. Lawk
she amt nothin' O. the kind, but she
makes all the old mans trousers herself,
out O. that nankeen, and makes him wear
'em. Why, the only idee she's got o fif-
ten on him is jest to have walstband
right straight round, and then fetch the
trousers in the band all round with pleets
Well, he gifts them on, and he alters wears
'em pretty well gallused up under his
arms, and that fetches up tor able well to-
wards the knee, to the bottom. So, you
turn him round every which way, squire,
when he's got them trousers on, and they
amt nothin' but jest pleets to him! O,ye
CANT miss him.
Could ony one, save genuine Yankee,
in New England, give the personal appear
eance of man, his size, weight, costume,
much of the internal relations of the
internal relations of his household, to-
gether with no little of its incest and
most delicate domestic economy, for the
purpose of directing stranger to par
ticular piece of woods ?-E. T. P. in the
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