Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-09-22

vi strangers, their health and morals, to
say the least, under very uncertain inAu-
ence; your substance is wasted in your
absence by those who have no selfinterest
to prompt them to carefulness you form
an acquaintance with multitude of peo-
pie, who will be sure to take your house
IN their way, when they travel next year
and finally you become so accustomed to
excitement, that home appears inspid, and
1t requires no small effort to return to the
quiet routine of your duties. And what
90 you get in return for all this ? Some
pleasant scenes will soon seem to you like
dream; some pleasant faces you will
never see again; and much of crowd, and
Toll, and dust, and hustle.
once knew family which formed a
striking illustration of my remarks. The
man was farmer, and his wife was an
active, capable woman, with more of am
bltlon than sound policy. Being in debt,
they resolved to take fashionable boarders
from Boston, during the summer season.
These boarders at the time of their arri-
val, were projecting jaunt to the Springs;
and they talked of Lake George chrystals,
and Canadian musick, and English off
GERS, and dark blue Ontario" with its
beautiful little brood of lakelets, as Words
worth would call them, and how one lady
was dressed superbly at Saratoga, and how
another was scandaIized for always hap
pening to drop her fan in the vicinity of
the wealthlest beaux. All this fred the
quiet Imagination of the good farmers
wife; and no sooner had the boarders de-
parted to enjoy themselves in spite of heat,
and dust, and fever-and-ague, than she
started her determination to follow them.
Why have we not as good right to
travel, as they have 7" said she; 8" they
have paid us money enough to go to Nj
agara with and it is really shame for
people to live and die so ignorant of their
own country" But then we want the
money to pay for that stock which turned
out uklucky, you know" "Oh, that can
be done next summer; we can always get
boarders enough, and those that will pay
handsomely. Give the man mortgage
OF the house, to keep him quiet till next
summer" But what will you do with
the children 7" Sally is very smart
girl; l am sure she will take as good care
OF them, as if | were at home."
10 make long story short, the farmer
and his wife concluded 10 go to Quebec,
Just to show they had right TO put them
selves to inconvenience, if they pleased.
They went; spent all their money; had a
watch stolen from them in the steam boat
were dreadfully sea-sick off Point Judith
came home tired and dusty found the
babe sick, because Sally had stood at the
door with it, one chilly, damp morning,
while she was feeding the chickens, and
the eldest girl screaming and screeching
at the thoughts of going to bed, because
Sally, in order to bring her under her au-
thority, had told her frightfuI, " raw-head-
and-bloody-bones" story the horse had
broken into the garden and made wretch
ed work with the vegetables and fifty
pounds of butter had become fit for the
grease-pot, because the hoops of the frkin
had sprung, and Sally had so much to do,
that she never thought of going to see
whether the butter was covered with brine.
After six or eight weeks, the children
were pretty well restored to orderly hab-
its; and the wife, being really notable
and prudent woman, resolved to make up
for her lost butter and vegetables by doing
without help through the winter. When
summer came, they should have boarders,
she said and sure enough they had board
ers in plenty but not profitable ones.
There were forty cousins, at whose houses
they had stopped and twenty people who
had been very polite to them ON the way /;
and it being such a pleasant season, and
travelling SO cheap, every one of these
people felt they had right to take jour
ney; and they could not help passing a
day or two with their friends at the farm.
One after another came till the farmer
could bear it no longer. 81 tell you what,
wife" said he, Il am going to Jail as fast
as man can 60. If there is no other
way of putting stop to this, I'll sell eve
OSo ih thO hONSO3 OANCpt thO OAO VIC
sleep on"
And sure enough, he actually did this !;
and when the forty.frst cousins came
down on friendly visit. on account of
what her other cousins had told her about
the cheapness of travelling, she was told
they should be very happy to sleep on the
floor for the sake of accommodating her
for night or two but the truth was they
had but one bed in the house. This hon.
est couple are now busy in paying off their
debts, and laying by something for their
old age. He facetiously tells how he went
to New-York to have his watch stolen,
and his boots BACKED like looking-glass
and she shows her Lake George-diamond
ring, and tells how the steam boat was
crowded, and how afraid she was the boil
er would burst, and always ends by saying,
after all it was toll of pleasure
However it is not our farmers, who are
in the greatest danger of this species OIL
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