Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-06-25
Quarrel Of Squire
Bull and His Son
Jonathan
An Old Time Fourth of July
AllegOry
By JAMES KIRKE PAULDING

fellow who held a good manor
in the middle of a great mill
o. pond and which by reason of
It's being quite surrounded by water
was generally called Bullock island.
Bull was an ingenious man, an exceed
ngly good blacksmith, a dexterous
eutler and a notable weaver besides.
He also brewed capital porter, ale and
small beer and was, in fact, a sort of
Jack-of-all-trades and good at each.
In addition to these he was a hearty
Fellow, a jolly companion and passably
honest as the times went. But what
furnished all these qualities was an ex-
ceedingly quarrelsome, o~verbearing dis
position, which was always getting him
into some scrape or other.
The truth is he never heard of a
quarrel going on among his ~neighbors
but his fingers itched to take a part in
it, so that he was hardly eve seen
without a broken head, a black eye or
a bloody nose.
Such was Squire Bill, as he was com
monty called by the country people,
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grumbling, boasting old dodgers that
never get credit for what they r be-
cause they are always pretending to
be what they are not. The squire was
as tight a hand to deal with indoors as
out, sometimes treating his family as
If they were not the anne flesh and
blood when they happened to differ
with him in certain matters.
One day he got into a dispute with
his youngest son, Jonathan, who was
Familiarity called Brother Jonathan. He
fell upon him and beat him soundly.
After this he made the house so dis
agreeable to him that Jonathan, though
as hard as a pine knot and as tough
as leather, could bear it no longer.
Taking his gun and his ak, he put
himself into a boat and padded owe
the mill pond to some new lands to
which the squire pretended to have
some sort of claim. Jonathan intend
ed to settle the lands. When he got
ever he found that the land was quite
in a state of nature, covered with wood
and inhabited only by wild beasts.
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ak on one shoulder and his gun on
the other, marched into the thickest
kof the wood end, clearing a place, built
"a log hut. Pursuing his labors and
handling his ak like a notable wood
man, he in a few years cleared the
land, which he laid out into thirteen
good farms, and building himself a
large house, which he partly finished.
began to be quite snug.
But Squire Bull, who was getting old
and stingy and besides was in great
want of money on account of his hav-
ing lately been made to pay heavy
damages for assaulting his neighbors
and breaking their heads-the squire, l
Bay, finding Jonathan was getting well
TO do In the world, began to be very
much troubled about his welfare. So
be demanded that Jonathan should pay
him a good rent for the land which he
had cleared and made good for some
thing.
He made up l know not what claim
against him and under different pre-
lenses managed to pocket all Jona-
4han's honest gains. In fact, the poor
lad had not a shilling left for holiday
occasions, and had it not been for the
hlial respect he felt for the old man
BE would certainly have refused to
submit to such impositions. But for
81 this in a little time Jonathan grew
up to be very large for his age and be-
eame a tall, stout, double jointed.
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"a his gait and simple in his appear
4nce, but having a Lively, shrewd look
md giving the promise of great
ztrength when he should get his
Growth.
He was rather an odd looking chap.
ut everybody who had seen John Bull
zHw a great likeness between them and
declared he was Johns own boy, a
rue chip of the old block. Like the
2ld squire, he was apt to be clustering
nd saucy, but in the main was a
Reaceable sort of careless fellow that
you'd quarrel with nobody If you only
zet him alone. He used to dress in
1omespun trousers and always wore a
4nsey woolsey coat, the sleeves of
Fhich were SO short that his hand and
frist came out beyond them, looking
Ike a shoulder Of mutton. All of
Fhich was In consequence of his grow
fng SO fast that he outgrew his clothes.
While Jonathan was coming up in
nis way Bull kept on picking his peck
Us OF every penny put into them till
last one day when the squire was
yen more than usually pressing in his
Demands, which he accompanied with
+areats, Jonathan started up In a pas
ON and threw the teakettle at the old
pans head.
Inc choleric Bull was thereupon ex-
zeedingly enraged and, after calling
zne poor lad an undutiful, ~ungrateful,
8epeihous rascal, seized him by the
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