She
always expected everything that happened. I have given some hints of her
character; but she had one weakness; she always, when she was a little
down, spoke of herself as being a burden to us, especially in the hard
times in the 'seventies. There was never a better woman, or one that did
more for a family than she did for Virginia and me and our children--and
our chickens and our calves and our lambs and goslings and ducks and
young turkeys. Of course, she wanted Virginia to do better than to marry
me; and that was all right with me after I understood it: but grandma
made that good, by always taking my side of every little difference in
the family. Peace to her ashes!
5
Now I have reached the point in this history where things get beyond me.
I can't tell the history of Monterey County; and the unsettled matters
like the Wade-Stone controversy, the outcome of the betrayal of Rowena
Fewkes by Buckner Gowdy, and other beginnings of things like the doings
of the Bushyager bandits; for some of them run out into the history of
the state as well as the county. And as for the township history, it is
now approaching the point where there is nothing to it but more
settlers, roads, schools, and the drainage of the slew--of which, so far
as the reader is concerned if he is not posted, he may post himself up
by getting that Excelsior County History, which he can do cheaply from
almost any one who was swindled by their slick agent.
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