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

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Il I'd 4, beat With while .h his 'n And when he hno
a. The Il .aib.t falls to bis sna'g, Yards he read then
n sP' out n3 sIe boy the o1o Ia a5 lie learned in
of could say Several a comfort to ha 70 .a@ the
way 1t 'sp t into lis heart 50 many VJrso onJeJ 10
,r Testament which he cou% s uay. It was all be could
tssrb ali Is children in tbs d I TO- do at meal times for
i d, fbeb; and this he 1 ,,a ! be at the anvil The
aQ tia otn3 NV. WINS growing harder, ne was growing
nlIag g9Fn @oily large He had to roork from tour
c oi5 tna NJ ,a til ten at night to earn eighteen
0f0fT q 8, averaged only about scrcn sIiiiags
: pe@ ,be,e werc five of them in the family to
a s8 XII hey could earn. 1t was hard to make up
,he X IF " hour Not one ofther hands, however
IIads could be spared, Jenny was going on nine
reakofsA and helpful lad he was; and the poor
ms5sSsr 1g,aal I, ", %9t =. y
% FeF iEFe shop, tenement, and garden, was 6ye
pounds YEAR. and few pennies earned BY the voun-
gest oithem was of great account.
But continued the father, speaking cbcprilv am
not the one that oughtto complain. MANY is the man
hat has ahader lot oft than |, among the naers n
ong these hills and thevalley. My neighbor in the
leN dooTcoud tell you something about labor. Won
bay never have heard the like in your country. He is
lnQder man than ljand there are seven of them in
li7 family and for all that he has no boy like Jenny
lefe to help him. Some Of his little girls arc sickly.
nd their mother is not over strong and it all comes on
1ini IIc ian odsh man, as was saying, yet he not
only works eighteen hours every day at his forge, but
eey ffiday in The gear he FORKS all night long, and
neYa lays off his clothes till late of Saturday night
goo6peighbor is John Subbins, and the only man lust
IN ot nelghborhood who can read the newspaper. 1t
IS nd often he gets newspaper for it is not the like
OF Ysttat can have newspapers and bread in our
houSf at the same time. But now and then he begs
an oAone, partly torn at the bakers and reads to us
oLa<Abpday night So, once in two or three weeks
we near something of what is going on in the world
sonlbgag about corn laws and the Duke of Yelling
ton, n Oregon, and India and Ireland and other pla-
ces Hlngand. We heard tell, awhile ago, that the
Poeffple would not have to make so many nails for
loffrbread much longer, because Sir Robert Peel,
and sde other men, were going to take off the port
lockAnd other taxes, and let us buy bread of them
that 3Ad sell US the cheapest. When we heard this
tal AFwlthout knowing the truth of it, John Stub
bins fok penny and went to the White Heart and
boqgH drink of beer, and then the andady let him
lok tto the newspaper which she keeps for her Gus
toaaty When he came back, he told us great deal
otFki was going on, and said he was sure the times
wof pc better one of these days,
he man was interrupted here by the entrance of
lboT who had been attracted in by the sound of
aasanspa conversation ia his ieilo@-nailer's end Of
ths lsssding. Tpuled of my knapsack and did what
could to teach themt alphabetof the Kings En-
gIsh with regard to the National Debt, and all the
other burdens which the poor laborng people Of the
realm mad to bear. thsk succeeded in mpressng
their minds with few sautary convictions with regard
to iheconnecton between military glory and power
y. Ishall reserve for another Leaf Of the Editors
Jourha, my exposition of the Excise Duty to those
hontst unlettered majors. Il. b.