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Updated: May 12, 2025
"If you please, Squire," said Ezra, cap in hand, "Laban's kinder stupid, an we callate he muster got what ye said tuther eend to. Will ye kindly tell us what the convenshin did?" Stopping his horse, Sedgwick replied, in a loud, clear voice. "The convention declared that the laws shall be enforced, and all disorderly persons punished with the stocks and with lashes on the bare back."
Laban thereupon came up to within a rod or two of the group, and taking off his cap, said in a small voice: "Please we'd like ter know what the convenshin has did?" Sedgwick, who had his back to him, turned quickly, and seeing Laban, said in a preemptory tone: "Ah!
But Ezra swallowed the bait without taking the hook. "Tain't talkin ez is wanted, it's assin. Any on ye kin dew that's well's I," he discriminated. The spirit of mutual deference was so strong that it is doubtful how long the contest of modesty might have continued, had not Laban Jones suddenly said: "Ef none on ye dasn't ass what the convenshin has did, I'll ass myself.
Paul Hubbard, indeed, shook his head and smiled bitterly at this revulsion of hopefulness, but even Laban himself seemed eager to find ground for believing himself to have been, in this instance, an ass. "Ye see the hull thing's in a nutshell," said Abner. "Either Laban's a fool, or else the hull caounty convenshin o' Berkshire is fools an wuss, an I callate it's Laban."
"Nothin, I tells ye," answered Laban, in the same tone of utter discouragement. "Squire says ez haow the convenshin hain't done nothin 'cept tew resolve that ez courts sh'd go on an the laws sh'd be kerried aout an disorderly folks sh'd be punished." The men looked from one to another of each other's faces, and each wore the same blank look.
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