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    The Village Convict First published in the "Century Magazine"
    The Village Convict First published in the "Century Magazine"
    The Village Convict First published in the "Century Magazine"
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    The Village Convict First published in the "Century Magazine"

    By Heman White Chaplin

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: The Village Convict

             First published in the Century Magazine

      Author: Heman White Chaplin

      Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #23007]

      Last Updated: January 9, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VILLAGE CONVICT ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE VILLAGE CONVICT

      By Heman White Chaplin 1887

      First published in the Century Magazine.

      Wonder 'f Eph's got back; they say his sentence run out yisterday.

      The speaker, John Doane, was a sunburnt fisherman, one of a circle of well-salted individuals who sat, some on chairs, some on boxes and barrels, around the stove in a country store.

      Yes, said Captain Seth, a middle-aged little man with ear-rings; he come on the stage to-noon. Would n't hardly speak a word, Jim says. Looked kind o' sot and sober.

      Wall, said the first speaker, I only hope he won't go to burnin' us out of house and home, same as he burnt up Eliphalet's barn. I was ruther in hopes he 'd 'a' made off West. Seems to me I should, in his place, hevin' ben in State's-prison.

      Now, I allers hed quite a parcel o' sympathy for Eph, said a short, thickset coasting captain, who sat tilted back in a three-legged chair, smoking lazily. You see, he wa'n't but about twenty-one or two then, and he was allers a mighty high-strung boy; and then Eliphalet did act putty ha'sh, foreclosin' on Eph's mother, and turnin' her out o' the farm in winter, when everybody knew she could ha' pulled through by waitin.' Eph sot great store by the old lady, and I expect he was putty mad with Eliphalet that night.

      I allers, said Doane, approved o' his plan o' leadin' out all the critters, 'fore he touched off the barn. 'T ain't everybody 't would hev taken pains to do that. But all the same, I tell Sarai 't I feel kind o' skittish, nights, to hev to turn in, feelin' 't there's a convict in the place.

      I hain't got no barn to burn, said Captain Seth; but if he allots my hen-house to the flames, I hope he'll lead out the hens and hitch 'em to the apple-trees, same's he did Eliphalet's critters. Think he ought to deal ekally by all.

      A mild general chuckle greeted this sally, cheered by which the speaker added,—

      Thought some o' takin' out a policy o' insurance on my cockerel.

      Trade's lookin' up, William,

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