The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-12-17

dat Is the ting, You see. dat rebellion.
you English call it we call it the
War of the Patriot well. You call it
what you like-quelle difference. The
king of Englan' smash him Patriot
War all to pieces. Then there are
ten men Of the twenty come back to
Pontiac YER sorry They are not
| happy: nobody is happy. All their
wives cry, all their children, they are
| afraid, Some people say, what fools
you are; others say you are no good; /;
! but everybody in his heart Is YER sor-
ry all the time.
Yer well, bye and bye there come
to Pontiac what you call colonel, with
a dozen what for, you tink? To
try the patriots. They will stan them
against the wall and shoot them to
death-kill them dead When they
come. the cure he is not in Pontiac,
non, not that day; he is gone to anOth-
er village The English soldier he
has the ten men drew up before the
church, All the children and all the
wifas they cry and cry, and they feel
so bad oh. it is pity.
But the English soldier he say he
Will march them off to Quebec and
everybody know that is the end of tbs
patriots
''All at once the colonels horse it
grow YER wild, it raise up high and
dance on his hind feet and VOLTA He
topple him over backwards, and the
horse fall on the colonel and smash
him. 1t smash him SO he go to die.
Yer we'll; the colonel what does he
| do? They lay him on the steps of
the church Then he say, Bring me
priest, quick, for [ 60 to die No
body answer. The colonel he say,
1 have hundred sins all on my mind
they are on my heart like a big hill.
BRING to me the priest he groan like
that, Nobody speak at first, then
somebody say the priest is not Eere.
Find me a priest, say the colonel,
find ne a priestn For he tink the
priest will not come because he 60 to
kill the patriots, Bring me priest
| he say again, and all the men shall
go free" lie say it over and over.
| He IS all smash to pieces, but hrs head
it is all right All at once the door Of
the church open behind him what do
you tink Evarydody's heart it stan
| still, for there is Mathurin dressed as
the priest, with a leetle boy to swing
the censer. Everybody say to him
self, what IS this? Mathurin is dressed
as the priest ali. that is a sin. 1t is
a-saprie. 1t is what you call bias
pheme,
The English soldier he look up at
Mathurin and say, All, 4 priest. ali,
M'sieu le Cure"
! ''Mathurin look down on him and
say; Msieu, it's for you to confess
your sins, and to have the office of the
i church. But first, as you have prom
| ise just now, you must give up these
| poor men who have fight for what
they tink is right. You will let them
! go free this moment Yes, yes, say
the English colonel, they shall go
free. Only give me the help OF the
church at my LAST Mathurin turn to
the other soldiers and say, 'Unloose
the men The colonel nod bis head
and say, Unloose the men Then the
men are unloose, and they all go away,
for Mathurin tell them 10 go.
Every body is YER afraid becos Of
what MathWin do. Mathurin he say
to the soldiers, Lift him up and bring
him in the church They bring him
up to the steps Of the altar. Mathur-
| in look at the man for a while, and it
| seem as if he cannot speak to him,
but the colonel say, / have give you
my word. Give me comfort of the
church before l die He is in ver'
great pain, so Mathurin he turn rOun'
to everybody that stan by, and tell
them to say the prayers for the sick.
Everybody get him down on his
knees and say the prayer; everybody
say;
Lord have mercy. Spare him, oh
Lord. deliver him, oh Lord, from thy
wrath And Mathurin he pray all
| the same as the priest, YER soft and
gentle. He pray on and on, and the
face of the English soldier it get yer'
quiet and still, and the tear drop down
his cheek. And just as Mathurin say
at the last dat his sins they are for
given, he die. Then Mathurin, as he
go away to take off his robes, he say
to himself, 'llisere mel Deus, miser
ere mel Deus"
so dat is the ting that Mathurin
| do to save the patriots from the bull
lets. Yer well then men they 90 free.
and when the governor Of Quebec, he
hear the truth, he say it is all right
| Also the English soldier die in peace
and happy, beco5 he tlnk his sins are
forgive But then there is Mathurin
| and MS sin to pretend he is a priest
The cure he come back and there is a
| great trouble,
"Mathurin he is ver' quiet and still.
| Nobody come near him in lis house
nobody go near to the school. But
he sit alone all day in him school and
| he work on the blackboar' and he
write on the slate. but there IS no
child come becos' the cure has forbid
any one to speak to Mathurin Not
till the next Sunday, then the cure
| send word for Mathurin to come to
the church. Mathurin come to the
steps of the altar, then the cure say
| to him:
Mathurin, you have sin a great
sin. If it was two hundred years ago
you would he put to death for dat.
Mathurin he say YER soft, Dat is no
matter, [ am ready to die now. / did
it to save the fathers or the children
and the husbands of the wifes. [ did
it to make poor sinner happy as he
go from the world. The sin Is miner
Then the cure he say, The men
are free, that Is good: the wifes have
tneir husbands and the children their
fathers. Also the man who confess
his sins the English soldier-to
whom you say the words of a priest
of God, he is forgive The spirit OF
God it was upon him when he die, be
cos you speak in the name of the
4 ch0rch Hut for Won hIaCDhnnar