106 THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS. 



Hill they could see the reason of, for everybody in the place 

 ate baked beans, and the crop was natural to the soil. 



Shadtown was so called from the abundance of that fish 

 caught at the landing a name handed down from the first 

 settlement. It is a staid parish, and the people boast that 

 they have never dismissed a minister. A few have filled 

 up their half century of service, and all have died among 

 them. They are about as proud of this as they are of the 

 name of their place. Shadtown was the name given by 

 the fathers, is honorable, and is therefore to be honored 

 and had in reverence for all coming time. The man that 

 should propose to change it to Tivoli, Arno, or any other 

 euphonious name, would be mobbed, if that thing were 

 possible in this Commonwealth. 



At the time Josiah was settled here, a couple of years 

 ago, the people made a stir, and built a new parsonage. 

 The old building had stood over a hundred years, and had 

 accommodated their last three ministers. The good old 

 practice of furnishing the pastor with a parsonage and 

 glebe has always been kept up here. As the country 

 filled up with people, and land became more valuable, they 

 sold off a part of it, but there are still ten acres left of this 

 fat valley land, and I guess better soil does not lie out of 

 doors. 



They built the new parsonage a little nearer to the meet 

 ing-house, setting it back further from the road, and throw 

 ing a part of the fruit trees into the front yard. They 

 made the house every way convenient, put in a furnace, a 

 range, a bathing-room, and all the fixings that a woman 

 needs to keep house easy with. They enclosed a large 

 yard, nearly an acre, with a nice fence, and planted it 

 with evergreens and shrubs, so that it looked about as in 

 viting as any house in the village. 



It was curious to see what a great variety of fruits had 

 been planted in the garden and orchard by the good men 

 who had lived and died upon this spot. There is about 



