Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1919-03-20

I remember Ii surprised me a little
/ to hear him say that they came In
! from both shores. 80.
/ "Just what do you want to dop he
i asked presently.
81 should like to go down to Wash
ington with you and help you In any
way that / can"
| "All right, partner-we'll try It," he
answered gravely. 81 hope that don't
forget and work you as hard as work
myself. 1t wouldn't be decent. have
| o great many letters to write. I'll try
thinking out loud while you take them
down in sound-hand. Then you can
draft them neatly and I'll sign them.
You have tact and good manners and
can do many of my errands for me and
save me from those who have no good
reason for taking up my time"
{ you will meet the best people and
the worst. There's just a chance that
it may come to something worth while
who knows? You are young yet. 1t
will be good training and you will wit
ness the making of some history now
and then"
/; What citation / felt
Again the voice of the hound, which
had been ringing in the distant hills,
was coming nearer.
! eve must keep watch-another deer
is coming" said the senator.
! We had only a moments watch be-
fore a fine yearling buck came down
to the opposite shore and stood look
ing across the river. The senator
raised his rifle and fired. The buck
fell In the edge of the water.
"How shall we get him2" my friend
asked.
at will not be difficult" 1 answered
as I began to undress. Nothing was
difficult those days.
! swan the river and towed the
: buck across with q beech withe in his
! gambrel joints. The hound joined me
before was half across with my bur-
den and nosed the carcass and swan
on ahead yelping with delight.
We dressed the deer and then I
had the great joy of carrying him
on my back two miles across the coun-
try to the wagon. The senator wished
to send guide for the deer, but 1 in
sisted that the carrying was my privi-
lege.
"Well, I guess your big thighs and
broad shoulders can stand it." said he.
"My uncle has always said that no
man could be called a hunter until he
can go into the woods without q guide
and kill deer and bring it out on
his back. I want to be able to testify
! that I am at least partly qualified"
: "Your uncle didn't say anything
about fetching the deer across a deep
river without boat, did he?" Mr..
Wright asked me with a smile.
Leaves Of the beeches, naples and
sswoods-yellowed by frost-hung
like tiny lanterns, glowing with noon
day light, above the dim forest aisle
, which we Travelled.
The sun was down when we got to
the clearing.
"What a day 1t has been I" said Mr..
Wright when we were seated in the
: wagon.
zone Of the best in my lffe," IN
swered with joy in my heart the like
of which I have rarely known in these
| many years that have come to me.
: We rode on In silence with the calls
of the swamp robin and the hermit
thrush ringing In our ears as the night
t fell.
sTt's a good time to think, and there
; we take different roads," said my
friend. "You will turn into the future
ard into the past" ...a
"I've been thinking about your
uncle" he said by and by. HE Is one
of the greatest men have ever known
You knew of that foolish gossip abou
him-didn't your"
''Yes," I answered.
"Well. now, he's gone about his bust
!. ness the same as ever and showed b!
his life that It couldn't be true. Not {
word out of him But Dave Ramse.
: fell sick-down on the fat last winter
By and by his children were crying TO
bread and the poormaster was goini
to take charge of them. Well, wh'
should turn up there, just In the nicl
!. OF dime, but Della and Peabod,
1 Baynes. They fed those children al
winter and kept them in clothes 81
that they could go to school. TIL
. strange thing about 1t is this: 1t wa
! Dave Ramsey who really started tina
!. story. He got up In church the othe
night and confessed his crime. HI
;. conscience wouldn't let him keep II
He said that he had not seen Peabod
Baynes on that road the day tn
Q money was lost but had only hear
J. that he was there. He knew now tina
Q he couldn't have been there. Cos
t'almightyI as your uncle used t
9 say when there was nothing else to b
5 said"
1t touched me to the soul-this long
y delayed vindication of my believe
Uncle Peabody.