People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — Slow of Speech. [ARTICLE]

Slow of Speech.

Grandfather Hilton was one of the slowest mortals in western Maine, His mind, his tongue and his legs all worked with extreme moderation, and it was a common saying among, his townspeople that when Father Hilton laughed at a joke, it was always at one he had heard two weeks before. Few people could stop to talk with him, and one bold youth who said: “Well, Mr. Hilton, we’ll have warmer weather soon!” was said to have lost two trains waiting for this drawling answer: “W-a-a-a-1, ’twon’t be much warmer till the snow comes off the mount’ns. ’n’ I calc’late the snow won’t come off the mount’ns till it’s a good deal warmer!” Across the street from the Hilton house were several “summer boarders.” One day they came over boiling with indignation, to complain of some noisy boys who bad been driving cows to pasture at four o’clock in the morning., “They wake us up with their shouting,” said the ladies, excitedly. “Can’t you tell me who they are, so we can complain of them, Mr. Hilton?” “W-a-a-1 now, I’ll tell you just how ’tis,” he drawled; “de-e-ferent boya drive de-e-ferent cows on de-e-ferent mornings.”—Youth’s Companion.