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didn’t raise some money for him. I borrowed three dollars from Judge Thatcher, and pap took it
and got drunk, and went a-blowing around and cussing and whooping and carrying on; and he
kept it up all over town, with a tin pan, till most midnight; then they jailed him, and next day they
had him before court, and jailed him again for a week. But he said HE was satisfied; said he was
boss of his son, and he’d make it warm for HIM.
When he got out the new judge said he was a-going to make a man of him. So he took him to his
own house, and dressed him up clean and nice, and had him to breakfast and dinner and supper
with the family, and was just old pie to him, so to speak. And after supper he talked to him about
temperance and such things till the old man cried, and said he’d been a fool, and fooled away his
life; but now he was a-going to turn over a new leaf and be a man nobody wouldn’t be ashamed of,
and he hoped the judge would help him and not look down on him. The judge said he could hug
him for them words; so he cried, and his wife she cried again; pap said he’d been a man that had
always been misunderstood before, and the judge said he believed it. The old man said that what a
man wanted that was down was sympathy, and the judge said it was so; so they cried again. And
when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says:
“Look at it,rs money, gentlemen and ladies all; take a-hold of it; shake it. There’s a hand that was the hand
of a hog; but it ain’t so no more; it’s the hand of a man that’s started in on a new life, and’ll die
before he’ll go back. You mark them words–don’t forget I said them. It’s a clean hand now; shake
it–don’t be afeard.”
So they shook it,lineage 2 adena, one after the other, all around, and cried. The judge’s wife she kissed it. Then the
old man he signed a pledge–made his mark. The judge said it was the holiest time on record,buy gw gold, or
something like that. Then they tucked the old man into a beautiful room, which was the spare
room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and
slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod,guild wars gold, and clumb back again and
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