Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-09-20


AN the good tea 1t almost makes me
cry TO hear of IT.
We'll il was done-comple,ely done
continued The merciless Chase. 1T wos oil
every chest OF it, hois,ed out OF the hold
OF every ship. There was no want Of
young men TO jump on board The vessels,
and break up the boxes before pitching
them into the sea. Cromwell. Bradshaw
and went to the shop for hat chefs, and
ran there and back with all our might. Tor
fear we should not get places. stood in
the mainchars Of .he Dartmouth, and on
the edge Of the wharf. and in the water
and every where-breaking up go thor
oughly, that whole chests were often
pitched towards the. by those on board, for
they saw how we'll did my work.
Now do not be bashful Chase said
Aunt Rhoda, i never like ussumacy-ull
sorts of pride is sim
Dear Aunt said Aunis, do allow Chase
to have this sort of pride in peace, at least
just Tor one night
Were there great many tea boxes"
asked one Of the women.
Yes answered Chase, so many that os
the tide was coming in, and rose round the
wharf, the chests made platform or p,lc.
high enough to bear up The young men
that stood upon them; and when wo had
emp,ied all the tee, we finished by getting
brooms and sweeping into the sea all tia.
had been split about the decks. How
clean we made them =
'The best of it is said Tudor that tho
whole was done with scarcely any noise,
hustle or confusion. There was no quar-
reling, no fighting, and nobody was hurt,
though we were at work three or four
hours. In each vessel one of The Indians
acted ne commander and was implicitly
obeycd. There was one man, however, "a
great lover Of teo, suppose) that managed
to fill both his pockets with it,
'Tujor, you should not tell that said
Chase, nor any thing else that is dIshonor.
able TO Boston,
ooh yes-,ell us oil about il !! exclaim.
cd the women, I'VE would rather hear that
than oil the rest put together
lie did it SO silly continued Tudor,
'lhat no body perceived him but Bob Hewes
and when some asked OF The conclusion
Of the business, il all the tea chests were
overheard, Hewes pointed to the man who
had loaded his pockets. and said, NO
here's one left. Ills coat skirt with the
pockets, were Immediately cut off BY
knife and thrown into the water, and The
man skunk back into the crowd
poor iel'ow-poor fellow sighed Aunt
Rhoda.
lie deserved to have been thrown into
the water along with his tea,' said Chase,
but only hear wha, passed as some Of our
people, on their way home, were going BY
the house of Coffin the tory, who lives just
on the wharf, There was the admiral
looking out of an open window. &c., said
hc, 'you have had fine froc to night
but you'll have to pay the fiddler's bill next
spring. 1--WE are ready TO pay him now
was the reply OF dozen voices. And the
admiral shut down the sash, and walked of.
We'll remarked Aunt Rhoda, Il am no
tory-but it does seem to me very strange
that any christian people could 60 in cold
any thing eatabIe or drinkable; | raIey
can't see how the country is TO be bet!ered
by it. But every body now days seems
to have got their heads full of wild unnatu.
raj notions. What do you think the gov.
crnor will say to all this =
'.et him say what he pleases,' replied
Chase.
Il never talk like tory, pursued Aunt
Rhoda, my worst enemies cannot soy that
of me but do think the governor has a
hard time Of it, a governing such ungov.
ernable people. To be sure it is the king
that bids him, but poor Tommy Hutchin-
son can neither move TO the right or left.
speak or let it alone, or act or do nothing,
but he is found fault with, and there is a
meeting about i: at Funnel Hall. He is
still worse off now than he was in Jenny
Ots's time, who made speech about
every thing the King did. and every thing
the governor dld.-lve often heard nv
dead husband repeat parts Of Jenny Olis's
speeches
'And capital speeches they were, too.
said Tudor, Il wish Mr.. Otis's health
would allow HIM TO make more Of them
Chase Lpring jumped from the table,
and traversed he room, singing,
'The roslrum then he mounted,
And loudly he did say,
Defend, defend, defend my boys,
Defend Americay'
Tudor smiled. Suppose you give us the
the whole Of that song, SAID he.
'Oh 4! replied Chase, coloring people.
shat is the only verse that suils-for the
truth is it is tory song, as you know
surely you would not have me sing,
'lhcir paern Jenny OTIS,
That sage Of high renown,
Lik" sheep he led the rabbe
OF this sedilious town.
by this time all tho visitors had dcpar-
ted. and shortly after when Chase aud
Tudor had parlaken of hss'y suppeA,
The family retired for The night.
CONCLUDED next Week
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