Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-09

righteous soul every day with their
ungodly deeds. So you supposed /
was dying, and came here to see what
meat could be picked off your ia
theirs bones?'
Jasper remembered Watts sheer
1t was clear whence the boy had gath.
cred his mean views of mems mo-
tiveS.
I'll trouble you to return whence
you came said Ezekiel Babb. No
blessing has rested on me since
brought the strange blood into the
house. Now that all of you are gone
you, Eve number one, and Eve mum
Der two, Martin and Walter-I am
well. The Son of Peace has returned
to this house; can read my Bible
and do my accounts in quiet without
fears of what new bit of mischief or
deviltry my children have been up to,
without any more squeaking OF fiddles
and singing of profane songs all the
house over. Come now!' the Old man
raised his busy brows and flashed
cunning, menacing glance at his SON
come now. if you had found me dead?
in Abrahams bosom-what would
YOU have done? l know what Walter
would have done. he would have cap
cred up and down all over the house,
fiddling like devil, like devil as ne
Isl He looked at Jasper again, in
uuisitiyely. Well, what would you
have done?-fddled too?
NV father, as you desire to know,
| will tell you l would at once have
realized what could and have cleared
off the debt to Mr.. Jordan
We'll, you may do that when the
day comes, said the old manufacturer,
Struggling his shoulders. 1t is no.
thing to me what you do with the mill
and the house and the land after
am'-he turned up his eyes to the
dirty ceiling-'where the wicked cease
from fiddling and no thieves break in
and steal. am not going to pay the
miney twice over. My obligation ended
when the money went out Of the house.
| did more than was required. | chastls-
ed my son for taking it. What was
seven years on Dartmoor? A fea-bite.
Under the old law the rebellious son
was stoned till he died. l suppose, now
you are hungry. Call the old crab;
kick her, pinch her, till she under
stands, and let her give you some
thing to eat. There are some scraps,
know, of veal-pie and cold potatoes. |
think, by the way, the veal-pie is done.
Don't forget to ask a blessing be-
fore you fall-to on the cold potatoes.
Then he rubbed his forehead and
said, Stay, I'll go and rouse the old
toad myself; you stay here. You are
the best of my children. All the rest
were a bad lot-too much of the
strange blood in them
| Whilst Mr.. Babb is rousing his old
housekeeper to produce some food, we
will say a few words of the past his
tory of the Babb family.
Eve the first, Mr.. Babb's wife: had
| led a miserable life. She did not
run away from him; she remained and
poured forth the fiery love of her
heart upon her children, especially on
her eldest, a daughter, Eve, to whom
she talked of her old life-its freedom,
| its happiness. its attractions. She
died of broken spirit on the birth OF
her third son, Walter. Then Eve, the
eldest, beautiful girl, unable to en-
dure the bad temper of her father, the
depressing atmosphere of the house,
and the cares of housekeeping i'm
posed on her, ran away after travel
ling band of actors.
Jasper, the eldest son, grew up to
be grave and resigned. He was of
use in the house, managing it as far
as he was allowed, and helping his ia