Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-07

Don't knOw now mucn, y1T
 ".Seasoned? I asks
 "sW-e-eI, no,' he answers, kin o' How like. Fact is I jest set out the sherry sprouts this spring; but. I lowed they'd be growed into trees big enough for lumber by the time Andy had the furniture ready
 Whiss threw away the stump of tho cigar, chuckIing enthusiastically. Then he ran his chubby fingers through his shock of hair and remarked reftec- lively:
 Seems most men have certain gait an speed-an' ain't capable of no oth- CT. OF Andy never got in hurry but twice in his life; an both times it got him into trouble. The first time was when he was askin' & silent blessin' at the breakfast table one mornin'. Jest as he was in the middle of his squirm- in agony he happened to hear the ol COW smashin'. down the gate that led from the barnyard into the garden patch, an purity near upsettin' tho table, an he hoMers loud enough to keel the bark off m a tree:
 There's that dnrned ol' heifer gib- tin into the sweet corn agin, thee knows! Call the dog, Davidi Dad rot her pesky or hide-I1l stove her ribs in!'
 Am out the door he went--like 8 gkeered rubbit out of it's squat. The whole naighborhood heerd his violent language, an was scandalized, of course: an o1' Andy come mighty nigh gittin' churched fer his hasty words an temper.
 *The other time him an his son David was ridin' long the road one Sunday mornin' on thssr way to Quaker meetin' Jest beyond Jim Furniss's place, on the OF Roostervi1le road, they come upon squirI gatherin' nuts under hick'ry tree. The squT1 saw them 'bout the time they saw it; an it give firt to it's tail, jumped onto the rail fence an lit ont fer tall timber like streak O noonshine. or Andy got excited to once, an hollereds'
 ''sAfter him, David! We'll run the little rascal down, thee knows!'
 Then both of em' dug the'r heels into th'r poky ol' plow-nags, an went gallopin' down the road--leavin' cloud O dust behind lem, so thick you couldn't cut it with a knife.
 t3Wel, sir, the squir'l kept the fence. fer bout a quarter of mile; then it jumped off onto tobacker houseciose to the road, an skinned, round the,cor- ner of it.
 'ssJump 's off an tie thee horse, David --an' get thee clubl' oa' Andy shout ed. We've got the little varmint cor nered, thee knowsi'
 An off they both tumbled. Andy went round the tobacker house, one way, an David went round t'other. Andy come upon the squir'I just round the first teorner, an cracked a lick at 1t with tobacker stick, that would ave iolted a meetin' house. Away went the suuir'l round the next corner, wh1sk- in it's tail an a-chatterin' like all-pos- sessed; an after it went oP Andy jest a-whoopin' an yeHiD:
 "sHere he comes, Dayid-head him off Crack it to him as he turns tho next corner, thee understands!
 "Well, David done jest as or Andy advised He struck a. ton at that squir' Ii; but missed it slick an clean an fetched his daddy 8 elite that purty near laid the or sinner out. Andy dropped his club, elapped both hands to his head an hoped round on one leg, bawlin' like g yeaEIin' bull:
 < Gee bush theeself, David! Thee's killed thee father-thee's killed thee only father.
 Other people was goin' to Quaker meetin', an a big crowd of 'em had elected in the road in front of the to- packer house, an was watchin' the whole pformance. They was so !hocked an mortified by the p'rceedin' that they rode away in silence, leayin' the ol' scamp a-howlin' bloody murder An the ups.hot of the matter was that ol Andy an his boy both got turned out O meetn'."
 ssWhat did he do then?" asked, feeling iatuitiyely that there was more to come.
 Jim stifny got upon his feet, and, while buttoning his shaggy coat and winding endless folds of a red com forter around his neck. concluded:
 @J'ined the MeLhodists down to Mount Hebron; they didn't stay with 'eun long, m finally died common baclslider. Might lave stayed with the Methodists if it hadn't been fer his pesky laziness an consumin' dilatori- ness. He was so dodrotted lazy he wouldn't go to the exertion an trouble of wearin' specs--too much work, you know, to be c'ntinuaHy putin 'em on an takin' lem off; an one time at Sum day school that verse come to him to read, where the angel troubled the water mixed it up some way so it'd cure sick folks. If you know anything bout the Bible, which VT actions n conduct don't show that you do, you'll remember that the verse reads some thin' like this--don't know that can quote it exactly myself:
 1 ".At certain seasons O the year an | angel went down to the pool an trou- bled the water
 | "Wells as said, that verse come to i ol' Andy, an squintin' his eyes an puckerin' his ol saddle-hap face, he