Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-09-09

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drinks it for me, and watch him. You
must have glass with him-just one.
He'll have dozen-I don't ask you to
follow him-but just one"
Jed opened bottle. and when he
offered me glass yielded. wanted
to increase the sense of protective
comforts against that shrfll wind out
side.
Jed drew comfortable chair close
| to the fire and took his wine in large
but appreciative gulps. took mine
in small but appreciative sips. The
fire roared, and the wind howled.
Jed, drinking by gulps, soon was ex-
hilarated. Mr.: Sidney and had been
rational. We had been talking, re-
call, of the substitution of Syrian
idea of immortality, concerned chiefly
with precious metals and stones, for
the north European idea of Valhalla.
when Jed began to sing, and with
, gusto and affection opened another
bottle of wine. The wind grew in Wo-
lence.
1T is night for any Of the living
dead about place." said.
II like wind that has many voices"
said Mr.. Sidney. "It produces certain,
sensations or emotions that are. primi-
tive. 1t suggests threat and increase
the sense Of shelter and comfort. We
sit like peasants about the. fireplace
and are inclined to legends"
"And tell sad stories of the deaths
of kings" said Jed, drawing his chair
nearer to the fire and spreading out
sis hands before 1t. He was drinking
more nationally now, slipping his wine
instead of gulping it. He had arrived
at his desired state and wished to
maintain it. So
/; Mr.. Sidney seemed to feel a, COM
Portable glow as Jed drank. There
wss no doubt that by suggestion he
obtained physical sensations Of stimu-
latfon and joviality.
IF we had ghost" said Mr.. Sid
ney, lit would walk on such night"
The wind made an extraordinary at
tack upon the windows as he spoke
and sucked soughing sound from the
chimney.
TELL the doctor the story Of the
| pool" Mr.. Sidney said to Jed. 1--WE
| are in the comfortable werewolf state:
Eets have our legend. Do you want
to add SILVER to your contentment,
dOctor?" he asked.
II want to dear the story" said:
$50 do l. once again. said Mr.. Sid
ney, "-On such night"
y'sThis place once belonged to a. fam
fiy named Dobson," said Jed.
ut was very old family-fof
American families" said Mr.. Sidney.
Game over in r64O." said Jed.
"English Puritans from Holland"
said Mr.. Sidney. go ahead, Jed.
sha'n't interrupt"
after the capture of New Amster
dam from the Dutch by the English
the Dobsons came down from the
north and bought this manor-house
from the Dutch family that had It
Then the Dobsons lived here In sim
pie fashion.
"rhey renamed 1t Hartley house fol
, their father, who was Hartley DobsOn
That's its name now"
II don't want to break in unneces
sarily," said, "but where do you ge
your information. Jed?'
4 TITS all in records in the library
he answered. land II ! am going to tel
the story want fair chance.
A lot Of generations Of Dobsons lIvet
here. There was always Dobson fam
lily in the house, and the propert!
! came down to the generation tina
made this story. There were two boy
: In that family-a half century ago
? the sons Of James and Henrietta Dob
, son: ! H
: Henrietta Dobson died when he
son Richard was nine years old ant
t her other son Henry was seven year
: old. James Dobson died two years Ia
> ter, and the boys were 'parentless
This family was an argument agains
s families"
b That's one of the heterod0x notion
have instilled in an innocent mind,
said Mr.. Sidney. sled, you must no
repeat phrases in your narratives. Yo1
!. parrot things and try to pass them a
e observations
8 you'll have him surly in moment.
suggested, "and then where is tn
g story?"
81 never knew him surly," said MI
Sidney, "and he could not be in hi
"a genial wine.'' .I5,
t Jed showed the flicker Of a malie
nant glance In my direction and wen
on with his story evenly and good-na
Il turedly. 3: \, ,:st.fs IA s
al (Coatmued next week.)
/. ..s5ssi,ng EN- in q Glass Now.
n What has become of the old-fasl
one,i he.le who used to manicure bic