New-York daily tribune., 1843-07-22
ssorx of the Revolu.lon,

,tfr NATIVE PEPPER AND SALT FANl"LN"''s'
The following is bona fidc fact, taken with
ont encndation from the life OF mother IN israei.
II will show that there was an anti BRUSH sPnl'
m the women as well as the men OF 20. nope
all the girls in Franklin will read 1t, though am
afraid some of them, especially IN the caPitai OF
the county, will need dictionary to ma out ~ inc
meaning of the terms wheel, iooih, "o' ino .'
FIRST il the name of an old fashioned piano with
one string, the other Is big house organ "iIn ou'
lev stops But TO the story.
TO in the afternoon of one Of the last days
N Nav. ,76. when was few months short OF
fifteen wears old notice came to Townsend, Mass.
where nv father used TO llve that hieen soldiers
were wanted.
The training Eand was instantly called out,
and INV brother that was next Older than | was
ono that was selected. He did not return TILL late
nt ,;obt rhcn all were in bed. When rose IN
the morning I found my mother IN tears, who
informed me that my brother John was to march
next day aitert tomorrow morning at sunrise.
Nv father was at Boston in the Massachusetts
Assembly. Mother said, that, though John was
supplied with Summer clothes, he must be ab-
sent seven or eight months, and would suffer for
want of Winter garments. There were at TINS
time no stores and no articles to be had except
such as each family could make itself The
sight of mothers tears always brought all the
hidden strength of the body and mind to acton.
| Immediately asked what garment was necdiui.
She replied, "panta!oons."
so, if that is a'' said 1, "wc will spin and
weave him pair before he goes
Tut" said mother, the wool is the Sleeps
backs, and the sheep are in the pasture.
Immediately turned to younger brother ana
hadc him take salt dish and call them to the
yard.
Mother replied, "poor child there are no sheep
shears within three miles and hall"
! have some small shears at the loou''
said l.
But we can't spin and weave it in so short
q time"
"I am certain we can mother"
How can you weave it there Is long web
of linen in the loom.'
mo matter can find an empty loom."
By this time the sound of the sheep made me
quicken my steps toward the yard. | requested
my sister to bring me the wheel and cards white
went for the wool. went into the yard with
my brother and secured white sheep, from
which shearrd with my loom shears half enough
for web; we then let her go with the rest oi
the fleece. sent the wool in by my sister, Luther
ran for a black sheep, and held her while ] cut
off wool for my filling and half the warp, and
then allowed her to GO with tho remaining
part of the fleece.
The rest of the narrative the writer would
abridge by saying that the wool thus obtained
was duly carded and spun, washed sized and
dried q loom was found few doors off, the web
got in, wovc and cloth prepared, cut and made
two or three hours before the brothers. departure
that Is to say, in forty hours from the COM
mencencnt, without help from any modern i'm
provenent.
The good old lady closed by saying, /" felt no
wcarincss, l wspt not, was serving my coun-
try. was relieving poor mother, was prepar-
ing garment for my darling brother
The garment being finished, retired and
wept till my overcharged and bursting heart was
relieved"
This brother was, perhaps, one OF Gen. Stark $
soldiers, and with such spirit to cope with, need
we wonder that Burgoync did not execute h's
threat OF marching through the heart of America
[Grcenticld Mercury.