Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-01-20

20, 10, but let me sect is now May, is it
not |?
Yes, Sir
well, then, for the month of May, my name
| is Smith
'Sr did rightly understand you, Sir p
| Il presume SOL said Smith, because there are
more of that name than any other
Yes, Sir but what follows from that?'
why, of coure, Sir, that you stand better
chance TO get my right name men will lie like
the devil, sometimes, you known
Really, Sir said the Captain his eyes begin
ming TO shoot fire at this apparently intended in
suit really, Sir, cannot understand your drift, |
| if you do not mean 10 offer us affront
Ha! ha ha p roared the stranger in voice
that shook the house, well, now, if that mint
good ons! hal ha! ha Why, no. friend, ne
continued, Familiarity turning towards the other,
and giving him II rough slap on the shoulder, mo,
no, friend; but You just said you was no great
slickler for ceremony-no mint ], as you see. So
let us he honest and live up to our professions
| agreed 10 that And yet'-rejoined the Cap
tain, perfectly at loss what make of his strange
guest, and though still vexed, yet now half asham-
ed dE the feeling he had shown - and yet, Sir, /
havSmet, in the course of my life, but with few
honest men, who were afraid 10 tell their names
| why, the truth Isl replied the other with an
air OF much seriousness, that you IRE all such |
quarrelsome curses down here in the Grants that
a stranger like myself, can't safely travel among
you by any other name than Smith, il he had one. |
AS to myself don't exactly know, in the strictly |
legal sense OF the thing, that have any name -
to speak Of, except Smith for | still stick to Smith, |
mind ye That is, for the month of May
Well, well, have it as you will, man., observed
Hendee, now softeDng down. and beginning to he |
amused in spite of himself at the blunt drollery
of the other. But must say you are the great.
est oddly have met WITH for many a day.
That may be frend,' said the stranger, his
countenance assuming the cast of sincerity; but
as you, like wise man, have concluded not to he
Hnd laft III, E,tIU
Captain Elendee, man of your intelligence and
observation cannot but have long since noticed
the quarrel that has been brewing between us
colonists and the mother country?
Il have, Sir /; and with the most painful regret,
was tho guarded reply
'And those Bost0nians and Virginians, WHO
have taken the lead in the resistance to the King
authority resumed the stranger, again assuming
an eqnivocal look, aud fixing his eyes keenly on
the countenance of the other, those fellows are a
set OF Christess knaves, for their rebellion you
agree?
'Knaves How so, STRIP replied the Captain
hastily, and with look that betrayed more OF his
feelings Than he intended should have been reveal
ed to stranger, and especially to one who appar.
emily entertained sentiments this subject so diff
ferent from those which he had long privately
cherished
Ahan eagerly exclaimed the stranger with ev-
ident delight, sits the wind in that quarter really,
and truly j? We'll, am not disaproin in you,
after ALL thank God'
Yes, but you, STRIP said the Captain, again
COMPOUNDED at the seemingly contradictory Ian
guage and manner Of the other, 'what did you
say but moment since p
what did say? O., pooh that is nothing
replied the stranger. But again, and seriously,
Captain Hendee, tor / am now satisfied that ii
will do to ask you the question,) should matters
proceed TO open hostilities in attempt TO burst
these accursed letters, how far could your counte.
s nance and support he depended on p
Stranger, said Captain Hendee, loo! - The
other full in the face as singular man AZ
appear, you nevertheless have an honest countc-
nance, and would not, / think, try, in my own
= house, to lead me into n But granting that
your sentiments and mine coincide on this subject
what could you ask, or expect. from mn lnhrn, old
5 man, whose only home aud property lie under The
y very mouths of the guns of Fort Frederick ?"
n Il see, seen answered the stranger. But it
Il. may be worth much to us 10 know that your heart
is III the right spot: for the times are coming
J. when even what such as you can do, may be of
I; incaculabe importance TO the cause. Indeed,
Is Sir, he continued with increasing earnesness, and
with deep and startling emphasis, indeed, Sir,
. those times already at the door: Blood-.4-
q merican blood has been shed
II Where? where " simultaneously burst from
,fI the lips of Hendee and Warrington.
70 AT Lexington resumed the stranger with
- clenched fist and eye of fire. 'Fiiiy American
e citizens have been shot down like wild cattle by a
foreign sol,liery and their blood has gone up to
"a the great God, in cries of vengeance! All Mas
snchuses are in arms And ure we here of the
Green Mountains TO remain idle P he added, with
he a look and tone of almost frightful energy by
v all the thrones of heaven and hell, no, no p
H. 90, for the renovation OF one year of my man
= hoods vigor II exclaimed the Captain, springing
I'd from his chair, and hastily striding round the
e room.
a 'Al that is well enough but useless, my friend,
he observed the stranger, after silence among the
company of a few moments, in which he seemed
10 have brought his feelings back to their usiia
d, currents so instead of calling on Hercules like
lie the man of the table, in prayers that never can b'
to answered. be thinking what you eau do. Thu
n, lndian'-he continued, in an under tone, ap
" preaching close to the Captain he is domesca
of ted in your family?
lis 'Yes, brought up by us, mostly cunning
IT. prudent and faithful fellow, replied the Captain
lis in voice too low to he heard, he supposed, b.
on the rest of the company.
ST., And may he made useful friend for som
ne emergencies, with your permission, Captain !?
st you have il, that is Cor AN occasional runner
of scout, or the LIKE should not like to part wit
OF him for any great length of time, however.
nat Here my friend, said the stranger, approach
DC ing the native, and presenting him with valuab
ate pocket knife, will you take this as n gilt to re
re- member me by? Now look me in the face
nd 'Yas-umph! All, him good--one very good
OIL said the Indian, quickly pockeng the knife.
nd, 'Now Captain, said The stranger, putting on h
in hat, and giving other indications of his nentio
in to depart, have only TO say, that ! am sorry
e- could moi have been more frank with you in som
Of particulars; but circumstances forbade it. No
ilh | mus: be off; and have some notion he COZ
nd liuued, looking at Warrington, of inviting 20,
Ugh guest here TO accompany me as guide
art, Mr. Howard is an old acquaintance, Sir, ju
maj called after long separation said the Captai
ne We should he sorry to part with him so souD.'
his, MIR. Howard will remain through the mig
ard with us, surely p nierposed the musical voice
ght Miss ilendee.
ing The stranger gave n scrutiniZing look ut Il
ach father and the daughter and ended by exchangiI