Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-05-20

We copy from the Youths Companion
the following simple and ingenious epistl'
for the amusement of our readers. SO natu
raj is it that it seems scarcely possible tina
any other hand than the one from which
purports to have came, should have penneC
it.
LETTER FROM ONE LITTLE BABY
TO ANOTHER.
NV dear little Cousin, How do you Xix,
this pretty world we live in2 Every day
see something new The people round me
look very smiling and pleasant; but have
found out who my best friend is, and | al.
ways cry when any body takes me from mg
Mother She handles me so gently, and
kisses me SO softly. and always rocks me to
sleep on her bosom, after have had enoue b
to eat No wonder feel sorry when she
goes away: The other day she left me
with the girl, and there was great ugly pin
began to prick me dreadfully; cried and
screamed and thought she would take it out
but instead Of that she began to jump me up
and down, and it hurt worse every minute.
screamed louder and louder, and then she
got up, took spoon and began to pour some
bad tasted stuff down my throat till was
half choked. suppose she thought was
hungry or sick Bye and bye my dear
mother came in and after kissing me long
while, and finding still cried, she began to
look at my lrock and at last took out the pin.
She covered me with kisses, and almost cri-
ed herself to think how had been hurt
Oh love her better than any Of the folks
have seen yet.
| have great many pretty play-things
that you would like to see but like my
silver rattle better than all the rest can
have any of them when Pm a mind to cry
for them, and if you will come aud spend the
day with me, we will sit down on the carpet
together, and pull them all over the floor.
When we get tired of that, we can creep all
about the carpet (don't you know how. yet
it is very easy-just crook one leg up and
drag the other after you)-and then we'll
pick up all the bits of thread and little specks
that we see about but there isn't much
pleasure in that, because sometimes when
have crept great soay to get crumb or
something, they are so i'll natured as TO take
it away from me, and it makes me very
cross.
wonder whether they rash you as much
as they do me? When my dear mother
does it don't mind it so much; but the
girl takes me sometimes and she washes my
nose up instead of dorm, and tickles my
ears and fills my eyes full of water, and
rubs them almost blind to get them dry
and then after all that is over, have to be
dressed. And sometimes while they are
dressing me they hold me so close 10 the
fire that am so hot don't know what to
dot is enough to vex any baby | think,
don't you2 Then they put me to bed when
am not sleepy, and take me up when
am--Sometmes they leave me alone, and |
wake up and there's nobody in the room.
1t was just SO this morning, and great fly
kept walking over my face, and could'n Mt
tell how to get him off, and he tickled me
dreadfully; my fingers wouldn't touch the
right place, all | could do, and he made
dreadful buzzing round my ears-I really
thought he'd eat me up before any body
came.-Then there's great creature they
call pussy" that | am so afraid OF. Some
times when they leave me alone she comes
and with her great staring eyes and looks
into my cradle. and one day she hopped
right IN and laid down with me, and cried
and cried and she never minded it bit.
But sometimes Pm very happy When
my dear father trots me on his knee or
jumps me up and down, or when my little
sister shows me he doll, or when look at
the bright lamps in the evening.
Now suppose you want TO know how
look. They hold me up to the glass every
day, when | am dressed all clean, so can
tell you. | have great blue eyes, and very
fat checks, and two little white teeth that
my mother talks great deal about My
shoulders are very plump and have little
blue ribbons tied into my sleeves, and I've
heard people that came in say that was
very pretty baby. | should like to come
and see you very much-but they cover me
up with so many blankets when go out,
that | can't see any thing and | am half
smothered beside but you'll see me when
grow little older My dear mother saws
must go to sleep now, SO good bye. am
your baby cousin, HELEN.
LocUsr TREEs.-Capt. Richard Hale,
Of Westhampton, obtained last year for 3
locust trees, delivered at the river in West
Springfield, so cents per cubic foot, incu-
ding all the limbs except those quite small.
They measured 306 feet and amounted to
1853 dollars Here are 1853 dollars for less
than two and half cords of locust timber.
RED-OAK.-Capt Hale also sold a large
red-oak stick, 62 feet long for 80 dollars ;
and Oren Kingsley another about so feet
long for 20 dollars-both delivered at the
river. Red-oak, is worthless for MANY MIR.
poses, but for ship kees seems to be about
ms valuable as any timber. The two sticks
were bought for the keel of a larra ,ossoI :.