Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-04
Ezra Fitch's ldccs on New Year Reso'ootin'

Some men are natural born rilers--
got horns all over EN-, tibet jags every
body they tech. Course we've got to
believe tibet the Lord made all of us.
an knowed purity close to what He
was doin' at tibet. But jedgin from
how it is aroun' here in Farwood. it
do appear to me tibet He does create
most uncommon powerful lot O.
muskeeters an deekins.
Well. t'other day Deekin Brumby
asst me in kinda insinooatin' way:
"Ezry, what resolootin air We goin' to
do fer the new year,
BY gol but tibet did rile me. The
o deekin is a most aggervatin' cuss.
with tibet paternZin' smirk on his face.
| turned aroun' square at i'm. and seZ
7: We'll. deekin. sence the Lord heZ
put you in high places to jedge us
ornery critters, we might tell me about
what kind o resolootn' We think would
do the most good fer OF Ezry."
said this kind O 'umble-li like leading
i'm on.
We'll" seq he: Il don't jest know
what yer most besettin' sin might be.
EZry. Every man knows his own
WickcdnesS best: but it does a man a
power o good to draw in the reins
purity tight onct year and take a
new start. just to show the Lord
he means right anyhow"
An then into i'm. an l SEE: "Deekin
Brumby, eli | sot myself up in vthe
amen corner every Sunday, an looked
so pious as ef eatin' blackberry jam
I'd be a wckedness I'd never stoop to
propergate, I'll be hungswuzzled eff I'd
go out an cuSs my innards out. an
lick my horse for tramin' the lines in
the mud Gaze | wuz too dasted lazy to
tie 'em up afore | went into church.
Didn't know ez anybody wuz on
t'other side o the shed. did ye? err We
mighta done yer cuSSin' in a leetle
more scriptural language. Well. tibet
amt all yit Eff | he'd any reSolootin'
to do. an he'd fifteen cows good ez
yourn. I'll be burned eff I wouldn t
resoloote to let Deekin Jackson's wild
der hey a quart o milk a day without
astin' her to pay for it out o the hard
earned mite she gifts fer takin' III
waShin from tenn ez never were her
equals-an' you a brother deekin with
him too. Eli. think I'm gittin kind o
personal. do We? Well. them ez pokes
Their noses into other peoples bizness
is allus liable to smell sumpin' other
people wouldn't "a showed up to 'em
eff they'd akep' themselves busy on
the beams in Their own eyes. l aIlus
takes notice tibet the man what's all
the time wOrryin' about his neighbor
not doin' right, spends mighty little
time keepin' the kinks out O. his own
hair an cOnshuns.
There's a power o men writin' re-
ligiOus books what orter stick to
keepin' diaries: an more folks I'd gil
religion eff they didn't know the
OrneryncSs of some men what the
preacher can't keep out O the amen
corner on Sundays. Good resolooshuns
is all right; but the man what only
makes EN- onct a year heZ got ter be
mighty pertickler what day he picks
out to die on er the Angel Gabriel
might fergit what his intentions wuz
before election. This thing O. promis-
in the Lord what yer goin' to do. only
shows Him We know what's right, but
tibet ye'd ruther hev coppers in Yer
stockin'-toe here, than start an ac-
count fer corner lot in heaven: an
tibet ye'd ruther scratch the itch O. Yer
human Gepravity. than lay awake
nights tryin' to think how to do some
good tibet would coax ST. Peter to let
We through the pearly gates
IF there's any resolootin' ter be