Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-08-25
BURLINGTON VERMONT, FRIDAY, AUGUST rs, 1913

ed off, leaving the Poor Relation standing il
the middle of the road.
As soon as the cloud of dust had so far sub
sided as to give the Poor Relation a chanct
of seeing out of her eyes, she cast them roun,
by way of accommodating what was mex
best TO be done; but as Squire narrowly
seemed to have some slight difficulty in keep
ing his two fine bays under proper control
they finding it very amusing to champ, ant
prance, and prove their own importance BY
raising commotion, and showing indubita
bic signs of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of mnt
common TO man as well as beast, and il
which Squire Harrowby and Squire Har-
rowby's servant, both sympathized-a al.
together uniting to make the Poor Relation
aware of the difficulty of her position, and
she not very well known which way to turn
while the porter belonging to the lodge
throwing open the other half of the gate
there seemed no other obstruction to the
gentleman driving his currce, and himself
and his bays, and his servant, triumphantly
in, saving and excepting the slight impedi-
ment of being obliged in doing so, merely 10
drive over the Poor Relation.
BE so good as to stand on one side, young
woman said Squire narrowly.
Get out of the way, cant YOU, Young
woman!' called out Squire Harrowby's SER
want.
Don't you scc--don't you-that you'll
be run over! shouted the man at the gate,
and tEercupon he very unccremcniouslv cave
Jump and clutched hold of her arm, and
hudded her on one side, and scrambled up
her various packages, made clear way for
the curriclc and the bays, and Squire IIar-
rowby and Squire liarrowby's servant.
These various affairs had been transacted
in front of all the witnesses collected at the
windows of the drawing-room of Swan Vale,
where Mrs. MackilIop was lamenting with all
her heart that she had ever been so amazing
ly silly, that, in fact, she had ever so entire
~ taken leave Of her senses, as TO think OF
inviting Poor Relation down to her house,
and wandering what she could possibly have
done TO provoke such piece of l-uck as
10 have two such contradictory arrivals to-
gethcr.
Smoothing, however, her ru1lcd brow, and
sugaring over her face with very sweet
smile, she nodded her cap-fowcrcd head with
an air of delighted welcome to Squire Har-
rowby as he drew up his bays at the hall en-
trance, of which the folding-doors were
thrown wide open to receive him, and he
was being ushcrcd across the vestlbule with
all honors just at the moment that the Poor
Relation found herself and her bundles and
boxes, and bag and cloak, and boa and UNI
n'eiia, deposited on the Dack door-stcps of
the house. The Poor Relation venturcd to
ootrudc herself into the passage, but here
she was most particularly in the way, the la
dies and gentlemen of the establishment hav-
ing felt their patience considerably over
drawn, and having very nearly stopped pay
mcnt altogether, waiting for the arrival of
Squire narrowly, whose whole and sole fault
it was that the roast and the boiled, and the
baked and the stewed, and the fried and the
grlIled, and the hashcd and the minced, and
the frlcasSeed, had been in imminent hazard
OF being reduced to a splendid ruin, and the
cook was feeling very much like a general
on the brink of losing a battle, when the cul-
prit arrived; and as all the scouts had been
upon the watch, no sooner was the event an
nounccd, than the cook and her aidc-dc-
camp began hurrying and driving, and fur
ryng and scurrying, hither and hilher, and
the Poor Relation was knocked from pillar to
post, and from post to pillar, in manner
exceeding dangerous to porcelain clay, which
none of the establishment in the least surmi-
sed what she was made of; and it was not
until the Poor Relation had entered into va
rlons cxpostuations and explanations that
she was finally conducted into sort of little
closet with slice of window and mite
OF a bed, and found herself installed within
its magnificent dimensions, with her boxes.
and parcels, and bag, and boa, and umbrel
la, Just as the dinner was announced IN the
drawing room.
The Poor Relation looked at herself in a
swing glass that was almost large enough to
reflect half her own physiognomy, and she
saw with her own eyes that they looked very
red, and that her face was IN "A sort of infla-
nation, and her hair was rather blowsifcd
and her complexion rather dignifed, and that
there was not slight ombrocation of dust
over her whole dress. She knew very well
that she had jostlod against the last dish that
was going on the table, and that therefore
she hao very little time to spend on an eabo-
rate toilette She looked at her trunk, and
saw the impoSsibility of uncording and nn-
packing; she looked into the ever, and found
that it was like dry wcll-not single drop
OF water in it. Well, what should she do ?
Should she sit down and bewail herself, or
Should she go down to dinner lust as she
was ! To teIlthe truth, though we acknowl-
edge the Poor Relation as our heroine, and
are afraid 1t will discredit her, she was JUS,
at that moment very hungry, and she resolv-
ed upon going down to dinner, without any
regard to appearances or consequences
and so down she went, and in she went.
The Poor Relations entrance into the d.
nlng-room was exceedingly NAL apropos.-
the soup was just being ladled out, and ev-
erybody was intent on lie appropriation act
and, moreover, their was neither chair va
cant, nor Granny, nor crevice, into winch she
might squeeze herself. Mrs. Mackilop, not
very well knowing what TO do, subterfuged
as cowardy people generally do, and preten-
ded not TO hear her announced, or TO see her
entrance; she turned her benowered head to
Squire lIarrowby, for whom the post of hon
or at her right hand had been retained, and