Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-09-22

much truth they nigh, tell, when they
said the rebels would all be hanged.
OH twas awful awlul--awiul.' Then
the old creature went 10 rocking 10 her
chair again, and Bill he grew uneasy.
started to 90, for thinks this old wo-
man is working herself up too much,
and she can't stand il. Bat She sings
out, Set down, you Zeke--set down,
tell you,or I'll spank you as I've done
many Il time aiore now Fan, abe
twisted her mouth, md Kid nf r =.
Bill he laughed right out, and down
sot again.
'On that 10th of June when put up
Williams knapsuck for him, and fixed
HIM of, do s'posc after that could 90
to bed Bill there, was the trouble
soonest child that night that ever lived,
and il seemed just as if he knew that
his father was in danger, and he wouldn't
rest easy. But | wont say nothing
more about myself, Zeke. Gen. Put
mum, and fine looking personable old
gentleman he was then, he brought
Bills father off the field, with his knee
all shattered, and he never walked
again in any kind of comfort till his
dying day. Bill he kicked up the ter
riblest time because he couldn't sit in
daddy's lap; and the only way we could
fix 1t was to put him on a table, and
draw the table up to the side of the
bed. There Mr. Saybury he languish-
cd and suffered through the whole of
that dreadful hot summer, and the gar
den and things all went to wrack and
ruin, and if it hadn't been for the neigh
bors, Ieke, what would come OF u.s.
That's the way we suffered and pineG;
and first off every body was ready to
help. BY and by came the pinch; and
your folks that keep talking about hard
times, now, don't know nothing about
it. There was more folks suffering for
want, than there was TO give; and the
Congress was poor,and the people was
poor, ard the inimy was rich, and the
price of treason, Zeke, was greater
Just for that present time, than honest
earnlngs-lor there warn't none to be
had
Mother says Bill, Il guess you're
talking too much
mind your business, William said
the old lady, 'and let me have my own
way. Old folks will be old folks, and
young people may as well hold their
tongues till they're spoke to- Bill he
give bunch, at his mother keeping
llnging the young at him, and the old
woman went on. 'I've heard my old
man tell many's the time about the bat
tie, and many's the time he's sot and
told it in this very room. He used to
get down that old gun, when he was
alive, and show it for list as much of
curiosity, as lift had been one of the
mermaIds William tells Of You shall
see il by and by, Zcke-so keep your
sitting. Why, he says when he first
went away from home that day, TO Join
the contInentallers, he did feel kind
of streaked. He'd been out before in
The wars, with Braddock and Putnum,
TO fight for the king again the French
and Indians, and it did seem kind of
queerto 90 out to fight again the king.
But he knowed that old Put was there,
and he heard DR.. Warren talk about
the massycree, and he knowed that
Hancock, and the Adamses, and them,
were strong for that side,and he know
ed what the Brlishers had done, and
what they told Of doing, and he said he
did Just what every body else did, and
what they ought to do. Just then, if
king George had only said the word, I.
and done has duty, Mr. Saxbury would /.
II grounded arms with the rest. But .
he didn't; and there It's; and you, Zeke .
Jones. and Fanny there, and YOU set,
and the others that are coming along,
get all the benefit. whore we had all
the work and all the suffering. When
the worst came TO the worst in that
seven year war, il was the women,
guess, that had 10 keep the mems
hearts up
Mother, says Bill, 'there'sGuitridge's
meadow hay Just agoing home. lie
might let II alone to-day | think.
Twant ofnouse. Old Ma'am Sax
bury, she'd pulled the cork ont for a
long talk, aud the words they came
gmgling out, ia spite OF her. Nobody
on earth could stopped that old wo.
man then, till she'd had her say out,
aud she wouldn't mind Old Gultridge's
has the least bit. Her eye was l.i up,
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