Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-09-24

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IN these characteristics. In the first place, lands
ere rent from u to 25 dollars per acre. for their sheer
sa- Pacy OF production must necessarily be kept in
I'VE state of cultivation. OF course, no lean, dry past
IL or DOGGY morass, or bald sand hills breaks the vista
md universal fertility Then the trees are all planted fl
vii oak OF monsrous grh to the smallest hawthorn in
JUS garden hedge and either from this circumstance,
from the fertility of the soil, their foliage seems to
~ val in luxurance the rank vegetation of annual par
The meadow grasses are of a thicker and finer GROW
than in America. Herdsgrass and clover are not
common. The atmosphere is more humid and the
IS vivid spnghtly greenness and a velvet sohness
bout newly -shorn meadow, which strikes an Anne
lcan at the first view of a summer landscape in til
country But the most distinguished and nterestir
feature Of all is the evergreen hedge. The soft al
uxurant verdure Of the fields, reposing in the valley
Or curying graeqfully around tho gently slorin I'm.
fof the haes, and a59,essa cottages andchdrcbe
run with gancing waves of sunlight, wouid5e IKE IN
framed pictures without the hedge In fact if our
bleak American stone walls or ra-ences were substi-
tuted for it, the rural scenery of England would be
robbed of It's lovelest feature. Everything looks pic
turesque when enclosed by this selfwoven wall of
green-even the veriest pasture. 1t lines every road
and lane, surrounding groves and gardens, pastures,
meadows wheat fields and potato fields. As | de-s
scended into the valley of B, could look rights
into hundreds of gardens, which for all the world ap-
peaeG like so many birds nests or moss baskets pla
ced one above the other up the HILL and filled wtdif
ferent plants and flowers The opposite wall ofthe
valley hung around with portraits wrought in Ma
lures cre,ceL work or with fields alternating through
all her pencil tins, and looking like framed pictures
in their hawthorn borders.
was suddenly diverted from my contemplation of
this magnificent scenery by fall of heavy rain drops
as the prelude of an impending shower. Seeing a
gate open, and hearing familiar clicking behind the
he lge stepped through into little backsmths shop,
about as large as an American smokehouse for curing
bacon. The first object that my eyes rested upon was
ful-grIwn man. nine years of age, and nearly three
feet high perched upon stone Of half that height to
raise his breastto the level of his fathers anvil at
which he was at work, with all the vgor of his little
short arms, making nails. / say ,fdl-groOa man, fcl
fear he can never grow any larger, physically Oh
mentally. ISL put my hand on his shoulder in a fa-
miar way, to make myself at home witt I'm, and tc
remove the tlmdiy with whichniy sudden appearance
seemed to aspire him, BY peasant cord 1rt8o q
greeting, his flesh felteaae bafdened mo WI tss ~
duration of toilpg manhoaa and as basnsceMs d
,titl.h M A,4 ~ p.
upon him intho greaoasss ofhs youth; and there he
i vas, by his fathers side stated, premature man,
withhis childhood ett oil; with no space to grow in
be,,veen the cradle and the anvil blocks Chased, as
soo:s 5s'Ia sssd 5n hrs litsfs sgs, iroDf I'M
heartsone to the foge-stone, by iron necessity that
would not let him stop long enough to pick up letter
OF the English alphabet on the way 0. Lord John
n Russell think of it! Ofths Engishman's son, pa-
ced by his mother, scarcely weaned on higb, cold
stone barefootcd before the anvil; there to harden
scar and blister its young hands by heating and ham
menng ragged narods for the susenance her breast
can no longer supply! Lord John look at those nails
as they lie Kissing on the block Know you their
| meaning use, and language? Please your ordshp,
let me tell you'll have made nails before now-tbe,
} are IRON exclamation points, which this unlettered
u"arilSh boy IS unconscously arrayng against YOU,
against the British government, and the ministry of
DIllsA literature for cutting him off without letter
Oh the English alphabet, when printing IS done by
steam for ncarcerang him, for no sin on his or his
parents SIDE but poverty into dark, six-by-eight
prison OF hard labor, youtt'ess beng-thnk of it an
infant hardened, almost in its mothers arms, into a
man. by toll that bows the sturdest of the worlds la
oorers who come to manhood through intervening
S years of childhood!
Inc boys father was at work with his back towards
me- when entered. At my first word of sautaon to
,'l' lod' he turned around and accosted me little
oaShuly. as if unaccusomed to the sobt of STRANGERS
III lot place, or reluctant to let them into the scene
@'o secret OF his poverty Isat down upon one end
HIS ha0ench and told him was an American black.
u '''n by trade, and that had come in to see how he
gu ." III The world; whether he was earning pretty
soou wages at his business, so that he could live com
Y''aDy, and send his children to school, As sait
''7' glanced mquiringly towards the bow who was
'V"l- ably 1t ne from his stone stool by the an
"o or three little crock-taced rifls. from two {,
'e years OF aye, had stolen in tnidy, and a couple
.1 '''"s ifgntened eyes were prerng over the door
IN me Iney all looked as If some task were daily
'0'eo them IN the SCOT and cindes Of their father,
~ even to the sharneved baby at the door The
poor EngIlsIlnan--he was as much an Englishnan a
'he Duke OF wellington hooked at his bushy headed
= oare-ooed children, and said softly, with a meancho
" snake OF the head, that the times were rather hare
with him. 1t troubled his heart, and many"hours o
the night he had been kept awake by the thought o
l. IT. that he could not send his children to school, no
teach them himself to read. They good children