Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-06-27

in reading it, would be nothing to what they
would gain"
And what would they gain, wonderl Get
their heads filed with nonsense and love stories.
Look at Sally Black Isn't she fine specimen
of newspaper reading galsl Not worth to her
father three pumpkin seeds. | remember well
enough when she was one of the most promising
little bodies about here. But her father was fool
enough to take newspaper Amy one could see
4 change in Sally. She began to spruce up and
jook smart First came a bow on her Sunday
bonnet, and the gloves to 90 to meeting in AT
ter that she must be sent off to school again. and
that at the very time she began to be worth some
f thing about the house And now she has got
forte-piano, and fellow comes every week to
teach her music"
".Then you won't join us neighbour" Mr..
Alton said, avoiding a useless reply to Gaskill.
" Oh no, that will not. Money thrown a.
way on newspapers is worse than wasted. The
time spent in reading a newspaper every week
would be enough to raise hundred bushels of
potatoes Your Herald, in my opinion, is dear
bargain at that price"
Mr. Alton changed the subject, and soon after
Ilet neighbor Gaskill to his own fancics. A wise
man was found to make one of the proposed club,
and by them the five dollars were sent on and
papers procured. ..r
One day about two months afterwards, they
) met, as they had done frequently during the in
termediate times,
{" Have you sold your wheat yeti" asked Mr..
Alton.
p" Yes, I sold it day before yesterday"
" How much did YOU get for it,"
" Eighty-fye cents"
mo moye?"
81 don't know that had any right to expect
more. Wheat hasn't been above that for two
months past
&C But it is above that now"
| How do you know"
Why, | thought every one knew the price
had advanced to Ainety-two cents! To whom did
you selIl"
! "To Wakefield the store keeper in Ravenna.
: He met me day before yesterday, and asked me
= if had sold my crop yet. l said | had not
, He then offered to take it at eghty-fve cents,
: the market price, and told him he might as
we'll have it, as there was doubtless little chance
! of its rising. Yesterday he sent over the wagons
: and took it away"
: f." That was hardly fair in Wakefield. He
: knew prices had advanced. He came to me
J., Also and offered to buy my crop at eighty-fve.
t But had just received my newspaper in which
saw by the prices current that in consequence
r of accounts from Europe of short CROP grain
o had gone up. | asked him nine-two cents,
), which after some higgng, he was quite willing
it to give"
r Did he pay you ninety-two centsW excaim-
J ed Gaskill in surprise and chagrin.
r He certainly did"
s "Too bad too bad! No better than down.
S right cheating, to take such shameful advantage
e of another mans ignorance"
d " Certainly Wakefield cannot be justified
J. in his conduct" replied Mr. Alton. Z" 1t is moi
a right tor one man to take advantage of another
mans ignorance, and get his goods for less thar
t they are worth But does not any man deserve
e thus to suffer who remains wilfully ignorant il
It a world where he knows there are always enough
, standing ready to abuse his ignorance. HaC
c you been willing to spend two dollars and fifty
y cents for the newspaper a whole year, you woulC
d have saved in the single item of your wheat croE
alone fourteen dollars Just think of that Wake
|, field takes the newspapers and watches then
e closely. He knew every week the exact state o
the market, and is always prepared to make goot
bargains out of you and some dozen others arounC
a here, who have not wit enough to provide them
II selves with the only avenues of information OIL
n all subjects-the newspapers"
g Have you sold your potatoes yeti" asket
d Gask with some concern i'll his voice.
i" Oh no, Not yet Wakefield has been ma
W king me offers for the last ten days. But iron
70 the prices they are bringing in Philadelphia,
am well satisfied they must go over thirty cent
here" .Ua.
'e 'FAbovc thirty! why, sold to Wakefield 70
N twenty-six cents"
It. "a great Ounce you were, if | must speak s.
o plainly, neighbor Gaskill. It's only yesterda
m that he offered me twenty-nne cents for fou
ly hundred bushels. But declined And wa
at right They are worth thirty-one to day; and a
s. that price am going to sell" .....
9yl /" Isn't it too badl" calculated the mortl6e
farmer, walking bacKWards ana forwards lnPa
OF tiently "There are twenty-five dollars LITERAL
us sunk in the sea. That Wakefield has cheate
ne me most outrageously.'
he " And all because you were too close to spen
m 50 80 for newspaper, should call that savin
r. at the Spite and letting out at the bung-holC
lis neighbor Gaskill."
OBJ i" l should think it was, indeed. This yer
&c, day I'll send off money for the paper And
ne any one gets ahead Of me again, he'll have to
la wide awake, can tell him."
OF Have you heard about Sally Black'" M
on Alton said, after brief silence.
en- !" No. What of her.. ....
en- ]" Her father takes the newspaper, you know
Yes"
And has given her good education?"
$50 they say. But never could see that