Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-09-28
BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN.
FROM HOODS OWN
All at once Miss Morbid left off SIM

All at once Miss Morbid left off sugar.
She did not resign it os some persons
lay down their carriage, the full bodied
family. coach dwindlnr into a chariot. no VI
ln'o n.y. and then into a sedan,chair.
ohe ana not shade it off artis,icsly, like
certain household economists, from white
to Whitley brown, brown. dark. brown. and
so on, to none at all. She left it off. as one
might leave off walking on the ton of
house, or on slide, or on a plank with n
further end to it. that is TO say, slapdash.
all at once, without moments WARNING
She gave it up, to speak appropriately, in
the lump. She dropped it,-as Corporal
Trim let fall his hat,-dab. 1t vanished
as the French say, tool s,ceet. From the
goth OF November, 1880, not an ounce Of
sugar, to use Miss Morbid's expression,
ever "darkened her doors"
The truth was she had been present the
day before at an Anti.sIavery MEETING ::
and had listened to lccturng Abolitionis,,
VINO mad drawn her sweet tooth root and
branch, out of her head. Thencefor,h
sugar or as she called it, "shugger," was
no longer white, or brown, in her ewes.
but red, blood red-an abominatiop. To
indulge IN which would convert q profes.
sing Christian into a practical Cannibal.
Accordingly she made vow under the
influence OF moist eyes and refined feelings,
mat the sangunary article should never
more enter her lips or her house; and this
pretty parody of the famous Berlin Decree
against our Colonial produce was rigdly
enforced. However others might connte.
nance the practice Of the Slave Owners bv
consuming "shrgger," she was resolved for
her own part, that "no suffering sable son
OF Africa should ever rise up against her
out of cup of Tea !"
In the mean time, the cook and house.
maid grumbIed in concert at the prohibi.
ton; they naturally thought 1t We nv hard
to be deprived of a luxury which they
enjoyed at their own proper cost; and
at last only consented to remain in the
service, on condition that the priyation
should be handsomely considered in their
wages With the hope of being similarly
remembered in her will, the poor relations
OF Miss Morbid continued to drink the
swarm without" which she administered
to them every Sunday, under the name of
Tea; and Hogarth would have desired no
SN''~' 'o' P'ItulC ludU was pres
scented by their pbysognomes. Some
pursed up their lips, as if resolved that the
nauseous beverage should never enter
them; others compressed their mouths, as
# to prevent it from running out again.
One took it mincingly, in sips,-ano,hcr
gulped it down in desperation, "a third, in
fit OF absence, continued to stir very
superhuously with his spoon; and there
was one shrewd old gentleman, who by
little dex;erous by-play used to beslow the
favor of his small souchong on q sick gera-
mum. Now and then an ustonished stran-
ger would retain half cupful of the black
dose in his mouth, and stare round at his
fellow guests, as if tacitly putting to them
the very question Of Matthew's Yorkshire.
man in the mail coach" Company loop
or DOOM"
The greatest sufferers, however, were
Miss Morbds two nephews. still in the
morning OF their youth, and boy.like, far
more inclined to "slp the sweets" than TO
"holl the dawn" They had formerly
looked on their Aunt's house as peculiarly
Dulce Domum. Prior to her sudden
conversion she had been famous for the
manufacture OF sort Of hard cake, COM
monty called Toffy or Taffy but now.
alas "Tatfy was not at home" and there
was nothing else to invite a call. Currant
tart Is tart indeed without sugar and as