Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-24

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Quincy never felt his youth so keen
ly before. He determined to change
the conversation.
did you attend the concert, Mrs.
Putnam"
No" said she. PA and me don't
go out much: he's deefer'n a stone
post and I've had the rheumatic so bad
in my knees for the last five years that
can't walk without crutches;" and
she pointed to a pair that lay on the
floor beside her chair.
During this conversation old Mr.. /
Putnam had been cycling Quincy very
keenly. He blurted out, Hes chip
of the old block, Heppy; he looks just
as Jim did when he fust came to this
town. Did yer say yer had an Uncle |
JIM"
Quincy shook his head.
Mrs. Putnam turned to her husband |
and yelled Now you shet up, Silas, |
and don't bother the young man. Jim |
Sawyer amt nothin' to be proud of, |
and don't blame the young man for
not ownin' up even il Jim is his uncle"
Quincy made another attempt to
change the conversation. "Your daugh-
ter is very fine singer, Mrs. Put
nam"
well spose So" said she; there's
been enough money spent on her to
make suthin' of her. AS for me don't
| like this folderol singin'. Why, when
she ust to be practisin' | had to go UP
! in the attic or else stuff cotton in my
ears. But my son, Jehoialiim Jones
Putnam, he sot everythin' by Lucinda,
! and there wasn't anythin' she wanted
that she couldn't have. He's dead now
but left more'n hundred thousand
dollars. that he made speculatin.'
Then your daughter will be quite
an heiress one of these days, Mrs. Put
nam?"
1 She answered. "She won't get none
lof my money. Jehoiakim left her all
4 of his'n, but before she got it she had
to sign a paper, wafer. believe
they call it, if you're lawyer you
ought to know what it was, givin' up
all claim on my money. | made my
will and the girl who'll get it needs it
and will make good use of it.
Quincy determined to get even with
Mrs. Putnam for the questioning she
put him through, so he said. did you
make your money specializing, Mrs.
) Putnam?"
NO. said she, "pa made it by hard
work on the farm; but he gave it all
| to me more'n fifteen year ago. and he
, hasn't got cent to his name. He's
Just as bad off as Jim Sawyer. feed
| him and clothe him and shall have to
| bury him | guess it seems kinder odd
to We, so l reckon I'll have to tell ye
/, the hull story. I've told it dozen
times, but guess it'll bear tellin' once
: more. You see my husband here, Silas
Dr. 1,rf,,, ht uiS
he's allus been churchgoin' man We
were both Methodists. and everythin'
went all right till one day Second AID
/. vent preacher came along, and then
, things went all wrong. He canoodled
q my husband into believin' that the end
: of the world was comm and it was his
!, duty to give all his property away, sc
, he could stand clean handed afore the
q Lord. My dandert riz when ! heert
:, them maxim their plans, but afore my
q husband got def he was great on ar
!. gifyin and argumentin'. and l didn'
! stand much show against two on EN-
. but when Silas told me he was goin
= to give his property away sot up m.
q Fbenezer, and | says, 'Silas Putnam
if you gives your property to any on
c you gives it to me. So after lon:
n tussle it was settled that way and tn
lawyers drew up the papers. The nigh
n afore the world was goin' to end h
prayed all night. You can imagin
u with that air voice of hisn | didn'
/. sleep wink When mornin came
&c it was late in October and the air wa
pretty sharn-Silas stopped prayir
ii and put on his white robe. which was
shirt of his'n l pieced out so it cam
n, down to his feet. and tallip' tin trun
net that he bought over to Eastboroug
II. Centre, he went out, climbed up o
AZ the barn, sot down on the ridgepol
&. and waited for Kingdom Come. H
sot there and footed all mornin an
,p spected the angel Gabriel would al
swer back. He sot there and toote
v all the AFTERNOON till the COWS com
IN home and the chickens went to roos
II | had three good square meals ths
" day, but Silas didn't get bite. Boz
J, six o'clock | did think of takin' hi
out some doughnuts, but then | deci
% ed if he was goin' UP 50 soon it We
no use a wastin' EN-, so put EN- bac
ne in the pantry He sot there and too
IN ed all the evenin' till the moon can
~ up and the stars were all out, and the
he slid down off'n the barn, and barie
i'll both his shins dom it, threw his trul
W. pet into the pig pen, come into Il
house and huddled up close to the FIR
re- He didn't say nothin' for a spell, b.
TX finally says. he, i guess, Heppy, tn
nd Teller made a mistake in figurin' o
or the date i guess. Silas,' says |. TIL
you've made an ALFRED fool of verse
ed, And if you don't go to bed quick al
We take a rum sweat, shall be widd
in a very short time He was sick +
ow more'n three weeks, but | pulled hi
through by good nussin' and the fu
wo day he was able to set up says
him, Now. Silas Putnam. when | me
rs. ried We forty-fiye year ago | promis'
to obey We, We was allus good perwi
at er and l don't perpose to see yer wa
for nothin'. but We have got to hold
aid yer right hand and swear to obey Il
'od for the rest of yer material life, and
ul- did it. He got we'll, and he is tous
tty erin q billed owl, il he is eighty-si
But the cold sorter settled in his eal
sht and he's def as an adder. Ell ane
ng Gabriel blew, his horn now I'm afear
Silas wouldn't hear him.
-ou During this long story Quincy h
ian listened without u smile on his fax
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