The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-08


the end of the world, wouldn't it?"
IT reckon it would" said Mr.. Crock
EFT. "New Yorks been gettin' along
without me Cor long time, an guess
it'll have 10 keep on doin' it."
Mr.. Pearson laughed. Then they
shook hands with Mr.. Crockett and his
friends and were off for New York.
leaving Wikesburg to discuss their
savings and doings for many months.
Mr.. Crockett was proud of the impress
sion that Mr.. Pearson and his wife had
made.
There wns nm unexpected and heavy
advance the following autumn In the
price Of White Burley tobacco on the
Louisville market Mr.. Crockett was
an expert raiser of White Burley, and
that season il had been his luck to put
in an unusually large crop. When
winter came and his tobacco was sold
he found that he had a very pretty sum
of money 10 his credit in the bank. 1t
was so much that he felt rich and able
10 take a holiday. There would he very
little work TO do until spring about the
farm, which was in trim and tidy fix,
and when he gave the matter further
thought he was unable to see any good
reason why he should not indulge his
inclination.
Although he soon decided the first
point Mr.. Crockett was in a state of per-
plexity for some time over other points,
equally important Where and how
should he take his holiday? Such a
thing as set holiday had no part in
the life of the five hundred people who
constituted the population of Wilkes
burg, and the only organized amuse-
ment ever known in the village was the
debating society which met every Fri
day in. the cold season. in the school
house, and tried very earnestly to de-
eide whether the Indian had suffered
more wrongs than the negro, or
whether war or whisky had done the
greater injury 10 man. He might go
hunting, but there was no novelty in
that, and besides, the game was becom-
ing very scarce in the region around
WillSesburg.
The right idea came to him one even-
ing when he was locking the barn door
after two days of doubt and inde-
cision. He would 20 to New York and
see the Pearsons. Such a thing as GO
ing to New York had never occurred
10 him before. New York was so far
away, and although IL must be real he
had never persuaded himself that il
was.
Yet now that he thought of 1t there
seemed TO be nothing impossible in the
idea. He had plenty Of money in the
bank and no kin to look reproachfully
at him II he should spend it. There
wns no reason why ne should not take
the trip.
There was much surprise in Wilkes
burg when il became known that Mr..
Crockett was going TO New York. II
had never been expected of him, and
most OF the people doubted his pru-
dence. They argued that Mr.. and Mrs.
Pearson In Wilkesburg would come
down to the Wilkesburg level. but in
New York they would stay on the New
York level, TO which Mr. Crockett could
not aspire. Consequently his feelings
would get hurt. They gave him much
good advice. But. though he trembled
n little at his own audacity in going SO
far, Mr.. Crockett refused TO change his
mind. In order to provide against any
possible interference he wrote imme-
diately TO Cousin Jim that he was COM
ing, and the next day followed the
letter
AS he boarded the train the friendly
station agent advised him to hold his
chin mighty high or he would make his
New York kinfolks ashamed of him and
Wilkesburg. But Mr.. Crockett told
him not to be scared, that Cousin Jim
was not stuck UP and would take his
Kentucky ways kinder easy"
Continued Tomorrow.