AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PENNSYLVANIAN
He bays de interest all right.’ Den I says, ‘You are going to lose all dat money—you petter get a chudgment.’ He says, ‘You see olt Dan for me.’ So I goes to olt Dan and gets a chudgment note and it vas entered up. I told Chames and he says he vould haf nossing to do wiss it. After avile olt Dan vanted to put a mortgage on his house and de lawyer at Norristown finds diese chudgment. Den olt Dan vanted me to satisfy de chudgment and I say, ‘No, I vill not satisfy de chudgment.’ Chust den Chames, he haf some money, den olt Dan and his vife, dey go to Chames, and him and her dey bawled like pabies, and Chames—he vas goot-hearted if he vas rough—he let 'em haf it.”
“So that in the end Hunsicker got the money from the son, with which he paid the father.”
“Dat was chust it, and Chames nefer got his money any more. Ven he tried, olt Dan got sassy and called him ‘de plack tevil!’ It sometimes habbens dat vay ven people do favors. But I heard de varmers say dat ven Chames vas a young man at home, vere you lif now, he vould do more vork for his fadder dan Hen and Ben togedder—dey vas his brodders—and he vas a goot neighbor.”
As the horse pulled up the hill toward the Reformed Church John stopped for a moment in front of a house where a bunch of crêpe hung upon the bell knob of the front door. “Dat is vere olt Chonson lifs. He died de utter day.”
“Poys is fery much alike,” said John, philosophically. “Ven my poys vas crowing up, Jonas he vas pretty near as pig as Isaac. And my vife, she makes deir clothes all out of von biece of stuff. It safes money to puy stuff by de biece. Ven dey vas not chust so near, I couldn't dell 'em apart, and ven von of 'em vas across de field and I called to him, ‘Come ofer here vonce,’ den it vas de utter vun.”
