New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892
April 14, 1886 · Page 5 of 8
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M" I SiSSSIiSi^^ mt^p^^'f:" One of Henry Ward Beeelier's THE MOUND-BUIL.DEBS. THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE ed this pantomime, and who can tell "Did youdid you get_ the bilL Juru- that the binding was sadly strained, Tales of a Irummer what contradiction of nature it was sha?" and that was all he did about it. OFSHADBACHPLATT. An Entertaining Lecture by Professor J. that led her to look more steadily at "It's aoing into court rifht away. From the Philadelphia North American. w** Some three months later Shad was P. MacLean. Shad because they pointed out Shed's But let's you and I part good friends, Among Rev. Henry ward Beecher's surprised to learn that the court declined gallantry to her? Shad." to grant the decree. Jerusha many accomplishments not the least From tfee Chicago Leader. With a martial tilt of his shaggy When at noon the militia broke He did not even co in with her, but had been unable to prove is his ability as a story-teller. To Professor J. P. MacLean, member white beaver hat, and a ponderous ranks for an hour of rest and cidei drove away to the desolate Piatt intolerable cruelty, or drunkenness, or much-amused listeners he recently of the Ohio State Archaeological and ca*ne with silken trssels, Captain Amzi brandy. Shadrach. in a cocked hat, homestead, and Shad no more entered such other causes for divorce as are told this one about a New York drummer. Historical Society, delivered his celebrated with a rosette and a shadbellied coat, the widow's house: and he thought, Piatt awaited, under the big elm in set down in the statutes. But the A typical "knight of the gripsack" with faded buff facings that had done lecture on "The Works of the as he sat by his solitary fire that patience Litchfield county lawyers wer able his door yard, the coming of his sons, was detained at a small town service in '12, made his way quickly had her perfect work, and he men in those times, and they bade Mound-builders." He began his lecture in Western New York a while ago .Shadrach and Mesbach. The captain to the tussock upon which sat wondered if the widow realized it. Jerusha to despair not. Soand this with a chart of Fort Ancient, located where a revival meeting was in progress. iiad earned his title at Lundy's Lane Miss Jerusha Pellet, and when she So Shad and Jerusha were divorced, much common repute sets down to be anoT:fsa He had met a party of conviv-^ near Lebanon.in Warren county, looked at him Shad perceived that at dn '12, and carried about the perpetual and all the people said it was well. a truthone of them, whose genius ial friends during his stay there, last Jerusha knew her mind. And Ohio, and gave a description of that The patient Shad went his way with had overcome more difficulties than reminder of the spirited battle had what is popularly known when Shed came a moment later seeking silent persistence, ponderina what he one, induced the General Court, or celebrated ancient curiosity. The fort in the form of an irritating British "a load on." Nevertheless he drifted her, he perceived that she glanced should do that he might still further Legislature, to add to the causes covers 135 acres of land and is surrounded bullet in his thigh. So he retainea his slighting at his pasteboard hussar into the revival meeting and took a accomplish his purpose respecting the wherefore divorces may be granted by deep ravines. This fort is cap, with a faded led bail upon it,and martial spirit, and it was his habit seat well up in front. It was rather Widow Pellet. For, though he confessed this clause, "Or such conduct as tends such a wonder that scientific men especially disdained hi3 buffbuckskms it to no one, Shad's design had close in the church, and the warm air to defeat the purpose of the marriage to cast a critical eye upon the youthful and it alarmed him. But he determined been but half perfected by the divorce. relation." from Europe have come to Ohio for was conducive to sleep. The drummer militia company of the town on that he would show his prowess One afternoon, as he was mowing the And with the blue bound copy of yielded to the drowsy god, and ai er the express purpose of isiting it. It the occasion of the yearly May training, with the big cannon at the artillery aftermath meadow, he stopped suddenly the new laws this lawyer went into nodding a little sank into a protonnJ has been discovered that the ancient after the ploughing and the planting drill in the afternoon. So when and laughed gently, for it had court and asked whether such conduct slumber and slept through the minister's builders were engineers, and that their the big gun that had done service in come to him how he could accomplish as the compulsion of a wife to were done and the hoeing was rather long and dry discoui^e two wars was brought out.and the infantry his design. standard of measurement was thirty ride behind a horse, afflicted with the awaiting its time. That critical eye The audience sang a hymn and tiy became artillery, Shed rammed blind staggers, to church, to the great inches instead of twelve, as at present. And when in the meeting house on drummer slept on. Then the evangel vwas wont to subject the two sturdy home with mighty thrusts, furtively dread, mortification, and suffering of the next Lord's Day the Widow Pellet Fortified Hill, in Butler county, near ist began his address, and wound uj *3ms to a preliminary and private inspection, looking at the maid when he finished, the wife, were not conduct sufficient and her daughter saw Shad escorting his fervent appeal with this request Hamilton, was next described. and stood erect and daringly near the but upon this bright May to defeat all harmonious marriage relations. a comely young housekeepershe "Will all of you who want to go to mczzle with the ramrod held upright. And the Court thought decidedly This wonderful hill has been illustrated morning there were unusual reasons was the widow of his But he saw that it was not at heaven please rise." it was, especially as Shad appeared in ten publications and described cousinand her little son to the why the captain wa3 resolute in his him that Jerusha looked, but upon Every one in the church except the^ not in court to deny it. in fifty. It is 230 feet above old Piatt pew, Shad perceived, disciplinary determination. Shad, standing, with the vanity of success, sleepy drummer arose. When the Shad pursued his calm and patient the level of the Great Miami river, is as he glanced furtively at the Pellet at the vent and applying the redhot evangelist asked them to be seated, one manner of life in peace, but in course surrounded by ravines, and covers pew, that he should accomplish Captain Amzi had named his sons, poker with what was meant to be of the brothers in the same pew as the of a year or two it dawned upon sixteen and o-thirds acres of ground, his purpose, and that there are other .us he had all things with which he had most military grace, and when the report sleeping drummer, accidently brushed his neighbors that Shad Piatt, despite and could on.y be successfully assaulted revenges than loud-noised and vehement to do, from the Scriptures, for he was came with a great reverberation against him as he sat down. The his peaceful ways and his humble manner, from the northern extremity. To ones, for the widow wrestled Shed saw Shad exchanging a greeting as earnest .1 Puritan as he had been a drummer rubbed his eyes, and partially was a determined man. No avert this artificial swamps were constructed with her annoyance and Jerusha's through the rising smoke with the awake, heard the last portion of man could be found who in the long at this point, making it simply zealous soldier. He gave his possessions cheeks became pale with emotion as plump little maid beyond. run had worsted hmi. The quiet manner the evangelist's request, which was impregnable. At Bornville. Ross she beheld the young housekeeper. such appropriate and suggestive And that night Shed called Shad in which Ke had evened up with "Now I want all of you who want county, there is a stone-work inclosing Not many Sundays were the widow names from the good book as were be. aside and said to him: the wicked horse dealer became known, to go to hell to stand up." 140 acres, and near Dayton there and her daughter able to endure this fitting. His farm he called Canaan, "She's decided to-day. It's you, and there were hints that Shad was The drummer struggled a little, leaned are milhtary works. The lecturer sight, for the housekeeper was very Shad." well beforehand with the world, and said that connected with all the works forward unsteadily and rose tr om his because milk and honey abounded his comely, an.d Shad was most courteous "I couldn't help it, Shed." had obeyed the Scriptures, so that he of the mound-builders there were legends seat in a dazed sort of a way. A sort three sons were Shadrach, Mesbach, to her. So after some weeks "the had increased his talent till it had become "It was your regimentals, Shad. or ghost stories, which some of froamn of suppressed laugh he heard widow, seeing Shad one day down in and Abednego, for he wished them to ten talents. And his neighbors Father would malce me wear the buckskins." ant the inhabitants implicitly believed. some ot the younger x^eople, the brook meadow, which was not far be trained as by fire. He even called sent him to represent them in, the expression of horror he noticed on from her house, clad herself properly legislature, and one day elected him .a vicious and powerful bull Nebuchadnezza, Beside the forts and stone walls, i So it happened that when the June the faces of some of the older ones. and went out to him. And she spoke high sheriff of the county, an honor of there are works On the arable lands roses were in bloom and the cherries Steadying himself against the rail he not only because of his vicious,ness, some words sorrowfully to him, and great esteem in those times. throughout the State which are built were ripe Shadrach and Jerusha were looked at the evangelist an instant, but because, like the ancient even hinted that she might have been in the form of squares, circles, parallels, married. and then said: Once a week Shad saw Jerusha. She hasty but, above all,"she bade him King, he ate grass. etc., as perfect as we can make Had Captain Amzi remained longer "Well, Parson, I don't know just exactly sat in the Amen pew in thebru meeting take pity on Jerusha. them now, with all our knowledge of pn earth perhaps Sha.d would have house, and he was seated where he what we're \oting on, but you By the village people the three sons' nI)pes Jerusha want pity! Send her modern engineering. These are almost been spared some trials that* he had must behold her, and he always spoke of Captain Amzi were addressed by and I seem to be in a hopeless minor- right out to me, Mrs. Pellet," and in all composed of clay, and, as it is speedily met. But the Captain's days pleasantly to her at the nooning, saying: abbreviated names. Shadrach was ity." a few minutes Jerusha, whose cheeks different from the clay found in were soon numbered, and Shed, having "I'm glad to see you looking so called Shad Mesbach was curiously were very pale, came slowly out to the vicinity, it must have been brought departed to another place, the old well, Jerusha." -corrupted into Shed, while Abednego Lejral Anecdotes. meet him, and Shad went up to her from a distance. These mounds have Piatt homestead was dreary and desolate. 'became Bed. To his father's grief and One winter night there had been a holding out his hand, and said some received the name of sacred works, But Shad found his trial in the The writer remembers hearing of a astonishment, Bed perished with a donation party at the parson's and things to her gently, andwell, it became but Professor MacLean does not|agree Widow Pellet. pentleman who, not wishing to pay cramp while swimming the''ocl waters Jerusha was there and Shad, and when known in the village before many with these views. The most complicated of Bantam on the Lord's Day but Shad was a very patient man, so the legal and recognized fee for a consulation it came time to depart, was it not days that Shad and Jerusha had work of the mound-builders in Shad and Shed, being trained in what much so that Captain Amzi had often with his lawyer, devised an Shad that observed that, whereas all made up their minds to marry again, Ohio is located at Newark, Licking the Captain conceived to be the rigorous been perplexed respecting his name, expedient whereby he expected to the others were going away in sleighs but that Shad had insisted that county, and is now the paoperty of scriptural way, became sturdy and wondering whether it would have been gain the information he required Jerusha must needs walk? Sohetook Jerusha come with him to the old the County Agricultural Society. Views strong men, and it was with pride wiser to have named the boy Job. her gently by the arm and led her to without the usual cost. He accordingly Piatt homestead, and that the widow of this curiosity and a number of others that the warrior led his sons up to the And being very patient he had of his sleigh, which was a fine one, richly invited the man "learned in the remain in her old home. Shad had were given with a powerful stereopticon. Litchfield ballot box in '32 to cast course, gieat persistency, which, by painted, and stuffed with heavy robes, law" to dine at his house on a his way in another matter, too. for their first votes for Andrew Jackson. reason of nis meek manner, the widow and, before the woman realized it, he was married by the same Judge who particular evening, as a friend and oldr and Iris wife did not suspect. The Newark mound covers five Captain Amzi's Democracy was as there she was in the sleigh, well tucked divorced Jerusha from him. acquaintance. The lawyer gladly ^tf So it happened that Shad, being indeed square miles, has parallel walls two .sound as his orthodoxy. in, with Shad by her side, flying over accepted the invitation, and attended gre\ iously beset by the widow, miles in length, twenty feet high, and It was Captain Ainzi wish that one And though Shad was, in truth, given the snow* like the wind, and she perceived at the house of his fuend and client, determined that sooner or later he has an observatory covered with trees of his sons should wed the daughter to some secret pride that his patience how powerful he was, and how would deprive himself and Jerusha of from which an excellent view of the prompt to the minute. The conversation of his neighbor of the next farm for and persistence had prevailed he mastered the spirited horse, and her society. So when the widow upbraided surrounding country can be secured. against the widow, yet he made no outward the Captain had a practical eye, and for some time was- very general how gently, though firmly, he spoke to him, as was her daily wont, The mound at Hoopton,Ross county, show of it, but was gentle and it had observed that the Widow Pellet's the animal. and agreeable, and by and by the with all manner of faults, Shad meekly is a fine puve of engineering skill, but meek, and continued to find all things farm joined to his own would shrewd client, by hinting and suggesting, "The horse hasn't got the blinds-taggers. bent his head and received her verbal the finest specimen in the state is the fine some finer than others, but all make a noble territory, unequalled, Jerusha," said he at length, smiling at last drew the lawyer out into lashes, thinking the while some Graded Way at Piketon, in Pike county. fine. the Captain thought, in all Connecticut. quietly. "Shall I give him the a learned and explicit dissertation good means would come by which he The walls are 210 feet apart, run But the Captain met with some Soon after he took Jerusha unto bit?" upon the subject the host wished to would peaceably overcome her. parallel for 2,080 feet, and are 10 feet ^perplexity, and often did he wish that himself a second time the Widow Pellet "Yes, if yon wish." beinfoimedupon. The client, pleased, high. The Ohio mounds resemble those All the people of the village wondered the widow had been blessed with two was taken and laid beside her departed They flew so she could not see, and satisfied and smiling, chuckled in his in England, which are attributed to at the meekness displayed by Shad, daughters. For he perceived that husband, Zerubab^l, in the old burying had to hold her breath, and she perceived our Celtic forefathers, where in early sleeve, thinking how nicely he had and the report of his trials having both his boys yearned for Jerusha ground by the Shepaug. that Shad, to hold her firmly, ages the Druids were supposed to sit reached Shed, he wrote Shad a letter, I wormed out the ad\ice- desired and Pellet's smiles, and both were gratified, had passed his arms about her, with Now, though Shad and Jerusha lived in council. "If the ancient Druidical saying that "no six-foot man ought for they received these manifestations pumped his lawyer free ci cost. a respectful but powerful embrace. peaceably, theae were moments when circles were places of adjucation," saiid to be henpecked by a mother-in-law." yet both were in distraction, for she Nor did she shrink away. The feast over, the lawyer departed, restraint was upon them, and that the lecturer, "might it not have been was impartial in her distribution of Shad patiently endured these things, equally pleased, and both* being satisfied "Shall we ride further?" he asked. becomes irksome at times. For Jerusha, the same in Ohio?" The ancient works such favors.d So it happened that the and went his way. all went as merry as a marriage "Yes," she said in alow voice. "Yes, Captain ha fixed upon the great Ma perueving that Shad was a patient at Marietta have been obliterated,and 1 One morning the Widow Pellet said bell. But a few days aftsi wards the it seems" man, but not comprehending that he the town stands on their site. One training day as an occasion when the to him: "You Platts are a fine lot. client received a letter from his lawyer "Seems what?" was a persistent one, was at times great mound, 35 feet high, alone re^ maid should be led to discover her There's no more snap to you than to informing him that the charge for "It seems s much like courting, greatly shocked in her pride, believing mains, and the first cemetery in Ohio own mind. Yet each of the boys was a toadstool a fine lot ou are." professional consultation, was 13 Shad." that her husband had no spunk, and is located around it, and there sleep to have a fair chance. So the Captain And Shad with meekness, replied: shillings and 4 pence, and would he "We never e&d much courting, Jerusha. was in fact what her mother had once some of the first settlers oi this great had commanded them to polish "Yes, all fine some finer than others, "kindly attend to the payment of That was the trouble, I guess. called him, a great calf. This, because Commonwealth. I up their uniforms with great care. but all fine yes, all fine." same at his earliest convenience and Let's begin IIOAV. I knew all along we Shad resented not when one of his Though these uniforms were in no respect The-Professor spoke of the celebrated "Do you hear that, Jerusha, in my oblige." The client was wildcaught should, sooner or later. Didn'tyou?" neighbors sold him a horse-that seemed uniforms at allfor each member sacrificial mound in New Mexico, own house, and him that I encouraged in his own trap but being determined "I kinder hped so, Shad." fine enough to look upon, but which of the militia wore such distinguishing where* calcined bones were found, to have you, answers me back with to otitwit the lawyer and gain his own And after tfeat he paid his court to one Sunday, in the sight of all who garments as pride or circumstance showing that human sacrifice had impudence? Don't you see how cruel ends he forwarded to the latter a bill her like a young lover, for he had were going to the brick church* became dictatedyet in one respect been oftered up, and following with a he is?" for "dinner, wines and accessories learned her merit, and perceived that seized with a frenzy like inebriation, description of the temple and altar there was uniformity, for the buttons supplied" on the 10th inst., amount "Yes, I have heard it, mother. Do at last she loved him, as he had always and staggered this way and that,at last were all of brass, more or less polished. mounds. Many of these mounds are ing to 13 shillings and 4 pence, saying you suppose, Shad Piatt, that I'd a her, and she, with what joy she falling down. It did not escape Jerusha's symbolical, and all kinds of animal that if he would settle the enclosed So'Captain Amzi awaited under the turned Shed away if I'd dreamt you now saw her lever as he was, and with eye that the youth about were life is represented. A picture of one bill he should only be to pleased elm tree the coming of his sons, and were going to be cruel to mother and what reproaches and mortification she laughing, nor that the women smiled was shewn which was in the slaape of and hnppv to settle the lawyer's little soon Shad was there and his father me. You hurt our feelings every day. recallei her blindness. with the sarcastic smile of contempt a serpent 1,165 feet long, with a bill. The lawyer retorted by threat' scanned him closely and bade him You don't seem to realize what a fine and was it strange that mortification He lived with her forty years, and mouth 100 feet wide, attempting to eninz to commence an action again.it inarch back and forth a bit. woman my mother is, and to have no wounded her so that her chin quivered five sons and daughters had they, and swallow a frog with a body 40 feet long, mine host for selling wines without idea what a fine family you married "H'ist your shoulders," was the and tears came to her eyes? when he died she could not stay without and a hind leg 52 feet in lengtht In license unless his, the 1 awyer's bill into." Captain's comment "set 'em well him, and lay down and followed sepulchral mounds human bones are And when she urged Shad to go to was immediately paid. Do I need to back, plump out your chist, and look "Yes," said Shad, gently, "all fine. him within a month. found, but they are not those of* the the law with the man who had cheated say that the lawyer was victorious? as stern as possible. Remember and Some finer than others, but all fine Thus it happened, though twice divorced mound builders for they ha\e the true him with a blind staggering horse, don't turn your left foot in. There'll yes, all fine." and thrice married, Shadrach characteristics of the American' Indian. it offended her that Shad should say be one there to obsarve you with an "There it is again, Jerusha. How Piatt had only one wife, and with her very mildly that, he should not go to Men Dressed as AVomen. obsarving eye." much longer are you going to stan' found peace and joy.New York Sun. law. How could Jerusha, not yet understanding In tl*e mounds of Wisconsin are such contradiction and impudence?" And by and by Shed came and Detective Desmond in St. Lama Globe i E. J. her husband, realize that found rude representations of animals, and when Shad tried to laughinforme the unpleasantness plumped down a stout leg encased in Democrat. wras Shad relied upon patience and persistence domestic pottery and pipes weighing away he buckskin breeches, and he stood erect Wowien's clothes make- the most for reparation? which we may A Grecian Bathing-Room. irom five to seven pounds, made to that he had a temper and when he before his father awaiting inspection. foolish disguise in the worldior a man digress long enough to say he one dayobtained, represent different animals. tried to take Jerusha by the hand he "You'll do," said the veteran. From the Londcit Times. to assume when he wants to make a tor Shad bided his time urntil A moand at Miamisburg, Ohio, is was condemned for a cruel man, and ""Pitch the hussar cap a leetle more Among the rooms which cluster success of concealing his indentity, occasion offered to buy one of his now sixty-two and a halt feet high, is when he said he hoped not, they told v-over the eye, and keep the strap of it for there is not any man living capable about the megaron at Tiryns is one of horse-dealing neighbor's mortgages,, 800 feet circumference and contains him he was in a passion, that he was Jast under your lips don't make the of counterfeiting a wormn's walk when having dono so Shad persisted quite unique interest. This is. a small 311,000 feet of earth. Thesemounds always getting into a passion and salute with the left hand if you be left sufficiently well to deceive inordinary in foreclosing. Thus patiently Shad. chamberin size some ten feet by were numerous in early days,and when when in the humblest spirit, he said handed. Do your best Mesbach. student of human nature. There is a Piatt accomplished his purposes^ the enesny made its appearance at one he sometimes feared he did when the twelvewhereof the floor is formed ot There'll be one eying you. When you swing and a peculiar step to even the And there were other occurrences place a fire was started on top of the nigh ox and other critters bothered mai*ch set that leg down firm. It is a a single gigantic stone, weighing about most mascuiine of womon that tht which, Jerusha, not yet understanding mound, this signal would be taken up him then, to his amazement, the stout one, and maids like strength twenty tons, and the walls were wainscot wearer of pantaloons can. not duph her husband, set down as proof of by another, and in a few minutes the women sobbed and the widow took .-paid bear in mind when you are his milksop character. catev Just look at the female impersonators ted with solid and close-fitting entire Miami valley would be illuminated. Jerusha off ,to her own chamber to console -marching, Mesbach, that's the widow's on the stane their walk give.tbiai But it was over the horse that blindlstaggered The views were of a high order planks. A gully at the corner, evidently her, and Shad did not set eyes woodland jines our medder." away at once,despite their high that serious trouble arose-,, of merit, the leaturer's talk was entertaining, upon them again that day. But Shad, made 5or the exit of water, at An hour or so later Capt. Amzi stood heeled shoes and a certain atrocious and again Shad had a trial. For oaa and the lecture was one of the though a patient man and a peaceful in the shadow of the brick church upon once suggested that this was a bathroom, wiggle- that they acquire in learning the Sunday following she declared she most pleasing ever listened to in this man, was a persistent one, and he bided the village green, watching with and no other theory seems tenable. their art. It was his that be^ would not ride to meeting to be mortified city. his time. proper pride the evolutions of the ini4itda. That Homer's heroes, hha to death again. But Shad drove trayed Express-robber Pat, ecently, These were energetic, but not One day the widow informed Jerusha the staggerer around to the stump f vthen he was passing from tne cars to Greeks of latter times, betook theuiselves gsrecise in all respects, butt I ere at the that it was to be borne no longer. A Cold ay When the House an oak that was used for a stepi a rneai station dinning-room. I can head of the file were Shad and Shed. to the baths before they went "You've got to live without me or Gets Left. and persisted in his purpose, and aot exactly explain the different* between Shad's chest swelled out with military without him. What ever possessed you to dine in the hall is well known to all Jerusha was compelled to ride Globa Democrat. a woman's walk and a man. firmness, while Shed's stout leg was to take him instead of Shed? Shed alters scholars, and here again excavation behind the beast again, and there was At the Christian Brothers' S3hool, but you will be abla to appreciate it plumped with prompitude upon the thought a heap more of you than another scene in front of the church, gives material confirmation totht/poet's in Washington, the sons of three United when you hear this sto#y. A French turf. No wonder Captain Amzi pointed Shad." in which Jerusha having been pitched words*. States Senators and of half adozen detective was after an important them out with pride to a mature Mrs. Pellet observed that Jerusha from the wagon, ruined her garments criminal, whom he knew to be disguis woman who stood beside him dressed Representatives are receiving their spoke not, and moved about her avocations In the middle of the floor 1 the and was deeply wounded in spirit. So in a silk gown with mighty puckers in ed as a female. He followed his trail with closed lips. Shad saw it bathroom was placed a large vessel education. They are all youngsters,, that in her pew, instead of regaining the sleeve, or that he directed the attention closely until he "located him in a cer too, and at length asked her, pleasantly, filled witb warm water. In this, after xaaging from seven to twelve years oi composure, she lost the little she possessed, of a younger person, with very if she had lost her tongue. tain railway gar. That car was laying aside his clothes, the rwither age. But they seem ta have acquired and quitted the church in anger. around and rosy cheeks and plump sat, or over it he cowered, while a crowded with wooaen, and, aft?? A "No, but. I've been thinking, Shad strong impressions of the relative rights figure to the young men. bathing man ladled over him the water studying over some scheme for finding &C> Piatt, that you and me were great of the two branches of Confess. The which, tailing on thelloor, raai away Shad saw her making her way to the fools to get married, and it's too much his man, he took an apple and tossed ^"Just watch that sgepof Mesbach's. Senators' sons stick together and affect by the:sink in a corner of the room. house of her mother's brother, but he to expect it's going to last all our days, it towards a party ij crinoline wlwjm Jerusha," said the "faptain to this to look down on the Stepreseatatives' After the washing came the rubbing did not follow her. He went calmly and it ain't. To-morrow you've got he strongly suspected of being tht pleasing person, who was watching sons. The latter ave only too and oiling. It is, however, to be observed to his home and spent the rest of the to drive me over to Litchfield, and criminal. The ruse succeeded. Tht? demurely both Shad and Shed with ready to fight for eheir rights. Naturally, that the place of the- bathinu Lord's day doctoring the unruly beast draw $25 out of the savings bank." some pride in "her black eyes, for she party saw the apple coming ami put the result is seen in frequent mams in the Homeric description, suq that took pride, seemingly, in staggering Shad uttered no word of protest, but knew her merit. "There ain't a lad up his bauds and brought his legs tor plied by a womxn, sometiuaes even a on Sunday. scrimmages. The latest of these occured next morning, arrayed in his Sunday in the militia who has such a stronsz gether so as to have a double ehim* highborn lady. But next day Jerusha came not^nor clothes, he drove his wife to Litchfield, between Eddie Kenna, son of leg. Them buckskin breeches was his of eathing the fruit. That settlwl the next, and yet the patient Shad went and gave her money and while she At Pylos Polycasta, youngest uncle's, worn at Lundy's Lane, and Senator Kenna,.of West Virginia, and him. The detective followed the direction about his avocations without dismay. was counselling with the lawyers Shad daughter of Nsstor bathes and dresses though Uncle Ephraim was a big man, Johnnie O'NeUlj. son of the St. Louis of the apple, and, pjjttmg hih And by and by Shad received a notice sat on the bench under the oak in young Tele-machus. Helen bathes Mesback had all he could do to manage Congressman, Mr. O'Neill's sevenyear-old hand on his shoulder, saicV "You're duly weighted with legal verbiage-to the tavern yard, and waited tor Odysseus wlaen he eom&j to Troy, as a the buckskins. Buckskin's the rig my prisoner." You seev if it had cai$"home with'an air of a the effect that has spouse, Jerusha, her, and thanked his stars that spy and recognizes bjm in the bath for a soldier, no pantaloons flopping beeu a woman, instead of bringing tht boy who has, had the best oi it. He sought to be released from the bonds, he was a patient and peisistent by personal marks as. does o).d nurse about them." !&#*- knees together at such a times confided to nis father's secretary the as a, a vinculo, of matrimony. Shad tucked man, and when she came out Euryclea at a lattw period. It seems The maid smiled demurely,while the a laan always does, she would ha\ Retails, with the conclusion: "Yer the paper away^ between the leaves to him he gently lifted her into the OJ to be a mark of the-exi rem* modest\ ^captain slyly nudged Mrs. Pellet on spread her knees apc^t 60 US to cdtcl\ betcher life it's a cold day when the of the great family Bible, where important wagon, and drove silently home. Just of the- same her that he declines to b* "herpuckered sleeve and gave her a cute Kr the apple iu her lap.. House gets left at our sohooU" asked:, papers, were, kept, so many before he reached the gate he bathed by the. maidens of Nausieaa,. .and.knowing wink. 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