Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-09-22
NO. 3S.

SiCdt lodu taktyl on my SOU. rns
lust then, Id heard every body that
went by the live long night; there was
n knock at the door. sot stock still,
aieard to stir, and all over ola trcmhle.
Open the door, Sally says my own
William Saxbury's voice, aud i'll didn't
go across the floor at two Jumps il was
u wonder. They brought him in---he
a clu,chlug that old gun, aud one l.
broke all TO pieces but ,hanked 6
he'd como home any how; aud | was
long fixing place for him to lny do,
| guess. Now says !, we'll sc
right oil for DR.. Warren You'll hu
TO send to the other world them st
/ William, says he.
Il sot right down on the floor, and
cried like child. We've as good ms
beat says William, says he. :But
/ you've lost DR.. Warren says l, and
that's as bad Is being beat. So pref.
ty much every body ,hought-thc poos
dear Doctor. He'd only had his Ma.
ior's warrant couple Of days, and
that was the end of it. But Congress
built monuyment to him right after
the war
Ididn" tcll'thc widow Saxbury that
Congress had only resolved monny-
ment TO Warren, without touching 10
build 1t, for | believe it would have
killed her on the spot, right of tho
reel.
Now you can see, Ezekiel JoneA
whether the women did any thing OF
suffered any thing in the rcvolutiona-
ny war; says she. you can guess
whether what I've told you about tho
trouble ! had with Mr.. Saxbury, and
the watchings, and the starving, mado
us Revolutionary patriots, or not
But it's no use talking any more about
it. William, do you take down that
gun
Bill he got up with pretty consi lcra-
BILE alacrity, and went to the ma ,tel-
tree piece. 1t wasn't that he didn't
! like to hear these things us well as
any body, for Bill is a true son Of a
revolutionary father. he kept the cuff
Of his coat in pretty mddling good
/ play, while his mother was talking
But Bill was afraid it would overcome
her too much, and he was more than
half right. lie was long time FUN
bling over the mantcl piece, 81 by a. by
he takes something down, and brings
tito Fanny, and puts it into her hand
with his bestermost bow. couldn't
see nobody blush, for il was getting
dusky, and Fanny she walked TO tho
window with it. followed naturally,
and if it wasn't the beautifulIest corset
bone that ever you see, all whitfield out
of white whalcbonc. On one side
there was pictured out mermaid, with
long scaly tail, Il combing her head
with a comb bigger than the head was.
On the other side Bill had cast out an
anchor, with cable and ship iasten-
ed to it, not so big as the anchor
Lord, didn't Fanny blush, and Bill he
grnned as shcepish as if he had been
stealing something. Seeing it's you,'
says Fanny, says she, 'Mr Arbuckle
I'll take it, but never use such
thing
Use what, says the old lady, squcal-
ing away, why, you little mink, you've
got so much Of a board on now that it
sticksou
Gorrydemption If Fanpy's eyes
didn't sparkle, and if she didn't 6iio
her lips ! just said nothing at all,
but took il out Of her hand, where she
was rapping her fingers with il, and
put ii into my coat pocket for her. BY
this time Bill had got the gun down,
and was taking off the green bag. lie
brought the gun TO the window, and
mother Saxbury, for u wonder, she
never opened her lips. After he got
the bag oil, there was another cloth
tied round, and when he'd taken that
oil, there was the breach Of the gun
split open from The end. up to the lock,
Iust a little crack which Bill bore opea
with his fingers To show US. Just on
The edges there was something that
looked like blood and hair clotied on,
that stuck IN the creyce, and had been
carefully saved up there for mere than
ialfa century. Don't that tell the s,o-
y how hard it was 10 drive them from
Bunker Hill ;---lon't H.;
'Mother, says William, as he tied il
ip, 'how long since this parcoIl,n- was
aiken off before 2 She never answers
I'd, and Bill says he, Il thought she'd
ak herselfasleep, for she always does
Fanny she r;tf on her ihiuog and uo