(Farm and buildings on Thousand Acre Hill mortgaged to Jethro
Bass.)
SECOND SELECTMAN, AMOS CUTHBERT.
(Farm and buildings on Town's End Ridge mortgaged to Jethro
Bass.)
THIRD SELECTMAN, CHESTER PERKINS.
(Sop of some kind to the Established Church party. Horse and
cow mortgaged to Jethro Bass, though his father, the tithing-man,
doesn't know it.)
MODERATOR, SAMUEL PRICE.
(Natural ambition—dove of oratory and Jacksonian principles.)
etc., etc.
The notes are mine, not Moses's. Strange that they didn't occur to Moses. What a wealthy man has our hero become at thirty-one! Jethro Bass was rich beyond the dreams of avarice—for Coniston. Truth compels me to admit that the sum total of all his mortgages did not amount to nine thousand "dollars"; but that was a large sum of money for Coniston in those days, and even now. Nathan Bass had been a saving man, and had left to his son one-half of this fortune. If thrift and the ability to gain wealth be qualities for a hero, Jethro had them—in those days.
The Sunday before March meeting, it blew bitter cold, and Priest Ware, preaching in mittens, denounced sedition in general. Underneath him, on the first landing of the high pulpit, the deacons sat with knitted brows, and the key-note from Isaiah Prescott's pitch pipe sounded like mournful echo of the mournful wind without.