The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15

Calvary down by the riverside where the
fax-beaters used to say their prayers in
thu intervals of their work: and it was
lust at the foot of this that Angelo
| Rouvier, having finished her prayer, put
her rosary in her pocket. wiped her eyes
TO me:
.'Ah. that poor Mathurinr
could not guess at first why she spoke
SO az the moment; but presently ii
dawned upon me that she had been pray
ing Tor the repose of Mathurins soul:
| though he had been at least a hundred
years dead. and she had never known
MIN. But tradition and memory are
! thing in her own life that day had re-
called to her the apoeryphad Scripture
according TO Mathurin. For some of these
! stores and legends lie as near 10 the
heart of the race of Angelo as job or
isaiah lie 10 your lives and mine: per-
haps nearer, because Angelo and her race
are closer TO the honest earth from which
good stores spring.
AN. that Door Mathurin! l. wipe my
ewes for him. she said 10 me again.
lei me all about him, won't you, Nine.
Ange-eE l want, to hear you tell about
II" added hastily, tor L saw that she
would dispise me II l showed ignorance
OF Matnurins story. Her sympalh with
Mathurin's memory was real, but her
pleasure at the compliment conveyed in
my request was also real.
An IL was yer long time ago-yeS.
My gran-mudder she remember dat
Matkurin YER well. He is not YER big
man, not so bigger as yourself He has
j face-oh. nor YER handsome not so
more handsome as yours-noni His
clothes they hang on him all loose, his
halr. 1t IS all some grey, and it blows
about him head. He is clean of the face,
no beard, no, nosing like dat. But his
eye, oa, VI sieu'. his eye! 1t is like a coal
winch you blow in your hand, wheWi All
bright My gran mudder, she say,
VOLTA, You can light your pipe with The
eyes OF that NJ sieu' She know. She say
that M'sieu' AIathurin's eyes they shine
in the dark. My gran'fadder he says he
na- need any lights on shis carriole when
MathuEin ride with him in the dark
,,Neriment. it is all YER true what 1
-! you all the time Il you cut off
would say the top of him it is a priest
AZ! the way down from his neck, Il vo::
-e- II stan, on, ne is just no better as
yo-sse- or my Jean, non; He is a YER
coaa man. Only one bad ting ne do
that is why pray Tor him; that is why
everybody pray for him-only one bad
ting. Saprie! If [ have only one ting to
say Cod have-mercy for, i tink dat YER
good. do my penance happy. Well, dat
Mathur.n him use TO teach the school
The cure he is YER fond of him. All the
leetal children, boys and girls, they all
say. 'cest bon MathurinI He is not
yer cross. non! He have no wife-no
child; lust live by himself. all alone. But
he IS yer good friends with everybody in
Pontiac. When he go long the street,
everybody say, All, there go the good
Mathurinr He laugh. he tell story. he
smoEe lettia. he take a leetla white
wine benin the door-that is nosng, non
He have in the parish five. ten, 20
chlldren all call Mathurin; he is god
fadder with them-yes. So he go about
with plenty OF sugar and sticks of candy |
IN his pocket. He never forget once the |
age OF every leetla child which call him |
godfadder He have d brain that work |
ike a clock. My gran fadder he say dat
make the words, make the thoughts, |
make fine speech like the cure, make |
the gran poetry-oh, yes
When the king of Englan' so to sit on |
the throne. Mathurin write yer nice verse |
TO him. And bye and bye there come to i
Mathurin a letter-vcila, dat is a letter. |
II has one. two. three, 20 seals; and the |
king he say TO Mathurin. 'Merci mile foIs
NJ sieu. You are YER polite, l thank you
l VIII keep your verses 10 tell me dat |
my French subjects are all loyal like II.
Mathurfn.' Dat is YER nice; but he is not
proua-non! He write six verses for my
gran mudder-hein. Dat is something He |
write TWO verses for the King of Eng
Ian and he write six verses for my gram
mudder. you see! He go on SO. dis week,
r-s year, dat year-all the time
well. bye and bye, there is trouble in
Pontiac Il IS YER great trouble You
see there is a fight against the King of
sngtan' and dat is too bad. 1t is not his
fault. He is YER nice man; it is the bad
men who make the laws for the King of
Quebec. Well. one day. all over the
country everybody take him gun, and the
eetla bullets. and say, l Will tight the
soldier of the King of Englan'-like dat
Yer well. there Were 20 men in Pontiac
YER nice men-you will find their names
,ut in q stone on the church, and then.
.hree times as big, you will find Ma
hurin's name! All. dat is the tingi You
Zee. dat rebellion you English call it. we
all the War of the Patriot-wel, you
all it what you like quelle differencei
The King of Englan smash him Patriot
War all to pieces. Then there are ten
nen of the 70 come back 10 Pontiac YER
sorry. They are not happy; nobody is
lappyt All their wives cry. all their
children they are afraid Some people
ay. what fools you are; others say you
re no good. but everybody in his heart
5 yer sorry all the time.
~ er' well, by and by there come to
Pontiac what you call a colonel, with a
oxen men-what for you tink? To try
he patriots. They will stan them
gainst the wall and shoot them to death
kill them deadi* When they come, the
ure he IS not in Pontiac, non, not that
ay; he is gone to another village. The
English soldier he has the ten men drew
p before the church. All the children