Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-04-18
Continued.

ANA 4 vine Huuhucr as ever AcS'
added Stevens, and the graves rs
easy to dig as easy; the Sile entirely
crumhlcd up WI the drought, 4 did,
And the grass was we'll zaNrd. Gran
fer. zee zaid as how 'ce didn't mind
morc'n dree or YOUR 2ummers like he
all'S life, Graufer didn't. That was
the GUNNER alter DIR. Everard done for
poor Ben Lee-ay, that twas"
"Ah" growled the blacksmith, with
drawing his broad face from the
eclipse Of his pewter pot, and passing
his hand slowly over his mouth, "he
never done that, Doctor Evcrard
didn't"
40 YOU zays, large Straun. And
gay it you met till YOU was black /
the vaaCc, but wouldn't vetch 'un out
O. jail" retorted Stevens, resuming 4
battle that had ragged necessarily for
the last eighteen years between the
village worthless, whom the question
had split into two unequal factions.
II zeen un myself" continued
Staun. leader of the notguilty fac
ton, "a-gwine down street In the
vull daylight And he hadn't no gray
clo'es on. s coat was SO black as my
nat. Well | minds 'un! Passed the
time o day, he did, and looked as
pleased as Punch. He never done vur
Ben Lee bless yc"
"You be terrible clever. large Straun;
but YOU never KEEP 'un out o jail wi
all yer cleverness," said Stevens. You
never Zeen no black coat that artcr-
noon, 'thout twas yer own. Why,
Lard love We, 2cCn un myself, as
| zaid avore the justices. He come
Weld wi s gray cloes on. He couldn't
a been in two places nj time. nor
he couldn't "A wore two coats at II
time, We noghead ! zeen I'm plain MS
plumS, | tell ec. | passes 'm the
time q day. and he never zeemed to
! hear and never zaid nothun. Nm
why? He was a-gwinc out a-hreakin'
the Ten Commandments, a-murdorin
o poor Rem Lee"
He never done it," reiterated the
blacksmith, stolidly.
Not he didn't" added William
Grove. "IIe zecn my little maid and
give her n penny, and Shc'vc got 'un
now"
And he Zeen Granfer ut vivo
oclack, when them maids sworc they
zeen him come homo in $ gray clo'es,
added Hale, the whcclwright. And
hn DSt nd
I bell-team go by, he did. And Granfcl
he up and zays, I amt a-yeard 'un &c
by zince dinner-time, not as | knows
on, amt he gays, zays Granfer
And DIR. Evcrard, he Zays n power o
! things to Granfer- many time Gran
"a power O. things DR.. Everard znid
and n power o. things Granfer Hid to
he. And DIR. Everard, he outs wi Il
shin and gives 1t to Granfer. And
! he keeps that there SHIN to s dying
day. Granfcr does. And there amt 4
man in this Yer bar but have ZeeI
that ar shil'n' and handled 'un." h,
concluded. triumphantly looking rounC
with the sense Of having iinallN
clinched his argument.
"Ay, William Hale" returned Ste
vens, Sarcastically, you've got {
/, power o words inzidc q We. when "
be as You can zim to bring EN- out
out Zir Ingram, he Zecn 'un a-runnin
across that ar Weld Just avore vive
Ay. It's a likely thing as Zir ingram
shouldn't know If he Zcon man ol
n mouse. The likes o. he don't goo
zePn. Granfer-I won't gay nothin
agcn he-hed powerful mind. hai
Granfer. but. Lard love yc what's &
powerful mind agcn eddication lik'
Iir Migrants? Granfer, he'd Civ his
mind to most things but he hadn'
i Granfcr He could count, and h'
could read print wi leavin out the
big words, 10 well as any man
knows on. but Is dedication was effect
i've; ii didn't come up 10 Iir Ingram''
college scholarding, II didn't. Nav
nav"
a pause ensued, the little compan,
! feeling crushed by the weight of Ste
vens' long words, n species OF power
full artillery that he only brought t.
bear on his adversary when hard pres
sed. Then Tom Hale, who some time
ere ibis had beaten his sword into 4
"leelwrights tools, took up his par
! able on this wise:
"Hc never done 1t, Doctor Eycrarc
didn't"
! IF he never done II, who did, In
quired the landlord. pcrtnently
Darn ii all" said William Grove
/ driving his hand through his bnshy
hair in dire perplexity, and repeating
j the phrase he had used any time these
eighteen years, ''zomebodN done 1t
Why. ! wound the body meself! Vel
] minds IT, Twas vrosty night, ant
I ! wound 'un all stiff and stark No
/ body can't gay nothin' agen that, wher
| zeen 'un wi my own eyes. And
run into Master Hale's as was keep
/ IN up New-years-eve WI n party, and
| zays and you yeard me plain enough
1 ord "A MASSEY on ug" I Zays zays I