Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-10-12

lions oievery ons. Nj. Sampson mourned long ADD
truly ios bis wife. She had been a thr,f,, house
vile, and neat, careful mother and so used were
husband and ehiId,en 30 severe Discipline that /,
was doubtful whether hey wsuld know how TO &C,
wiihout H.
Hat sorrow, like all other things in this subluna
~ world, mus, have al end. The children were
growing disorderiy, sad were losing tina, ,idy sp
pesrance that had always seharscterised them -
Nothing in the shoemakot's snug domicil wen,
right, The good houss~ifes In the village of p
were busy in making ssecond match for poor MI.
Sampson and, like pruden, women, they all pitch.
cd Upon one Of the very aniipodes OF poor Mrs
Sampson, who ws2hesd aud gone Susan Gowen
was mild, good injured. and smart and all ewes
were turned upon her 70 The future Mrs Sampson
She was jusi the rghs - sod l,,le psoperiy, and
al ties,ased tnsthe .;sta never DO bctter ard M
Sampson, like a REASONABLE man, believed what ev-
cry body said, and married her.
This t!me at least, the oeighbots had no reason To
complain. The second Mrs Sampson was a mir
ror OF patience the ncighbots who happened in about
meal time could find no fault with The bead aud
buiier the last article being thick eoough satisfy
the most caplious; and as for pie or cake Nil de-
ciared hers were no mother n law pieces. The
shoemaker must and would be happy. Msnth.
passed away, and, II the predictions of the n.igb.
6ors were to be verified, Mt Sampson's appear ace
was somewhat equivocsl for happy man. 1t vas
certain that he grew thin, did whistle or laugh
or hum half SO often he used TO do His ste,
was siless, and he seemed to have lost much OF
that sturdy activity which had formerly distinguish
ed him.
The neighbors were completely at stand Mrs
Sampson was strictly scrutinized, but nothing could
be detected. She was patience personfed Mean
while the children, accustomed to the severesi dis
ciPllne oil their mother, sooner found themselves
subjected to The milder sway Of siepmc,her whose
right to control them was to say the least doubtful,
since public opinion has made it such, now burs,
Tree from all restraint and reyelled in the glorious
privilege oil doing whatever they had mind to do.
Poor Mrs. Sampson talked, and coaxed and we2,
and IN one or two instances even had the iemery 10
put motherless child down cellar all TO no pur-
pose. They were as unmanageable parcel OF
wild colts broken free from the pasture, and an,c
with the first consciousness of freedom. Mr. Samp.
son could not manage them, that OF The qucs-
ton; he had never thought of doing it while their
mother was alive, and how could he now that she
was dead and gone. Among the trials awarded to
the Patriarch Job 1t is we'll perhaps that his sex
precludcd the possibility OF his passing the ordeal
OF mother-in-law's lot So thought the second
Mrs Sampson She Tad tried every Thing, and
now her patience was completely exhausted One
day, just as her husband was coming in to dinner
driven to desperation by the accumulated din of so
many ungovernable children, she suddenly armed
herself with handful of hemlock tops, and laid
Them about her on every side, at The same time or
dering every child TO seat about the quickest. At
this moment her husband entered, and, far from
fnching, she resolutey told him VIVA, she had done,
and what she meant 10 do in future, ere she would
endure such an intoefable din Mr. Sampson was
at once in fine spirits. His wife had never looked
half so handsome before. The children were as
whist mice in a cheese. Mrs Sampson abso-
uely kept her word, and, though the neighbors
pi,ed the children and talked mourniuy of the sor-
rows OF poor Mr. Sampson, from that time he began
to gain in flesh and spirits, and became the sturdy
good natured sort Of man | had formerly known
him. The recurrence OF the old Stimulus in the ac-
tvity Of ~ifes tongue had restored the buoy ancy
TO his spirits and health TO his bones.
Such being the fact, thought il best to write his
history, in the hope that persons Witnessing SINH
lar case would suspend their sympa,hies and reAec,
that, after all, the husband of a scolding wife may
be as happy as that Of good naiured one, aud the
spirited tones OF her voice in scoljing may be quite
as agreeable TO such husbands ear as the most
ducet notes OF the other in thrilling fashionable
air.