Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-05-12

a little creature that has seen better days
and we let her be here because my feelings
won't let me send her away. She is SO
happy and so attached to US, poor thing, and
she Just makes herself useful by doing any
trine that falls in her way. She keeps the
KEYS Of the store. room, and the tea. caddy,
and the wine-cellar, and the beer, and the
cellaret, and she fills up her time with sew.
ing for the girls, and she has the care ofthe
linen and makes all the pastry, and does the
prescrves--but what | most prize Fanny
Carr for is, she is such good nurse--she
nursed the children through all their maa.
dies, and never left them when we had the
scarlet fever, every body said that she would
catch it, but she never did, though she was
with them dag and night. Yes. Fanny Carr
is q most excellent nurse
So size is Jour ouse-keeper, and your
plain sewer, and your nurse
%, no, uncle, don't give her any wa.
ges.'
4 servant without wages2'
Uncle, | see that you don't like to see
Fanny Carr sitting at the same table with
you. am sure | beg your pardon, but
did not think oft. don't much think that
she would like to cat with the servants, but
I'll see. At all events, I can send her din.
ner up to her own ROOM
Let the thing stay said uncle jeff.
But my dear uncle, confess it was very
thoughtless of me to seat her at the same
table with you, and can very well make
her CO.
Then shall go too,' said deaf uncle
Jeff.
Mrs. Pokenham of course Immediately
withdrew her protfer. She could only re-.
greet that she had been so inadvertent as to
place her highly respectable, and highly
endowed, and fortunately rich uncle Jeffrey
at the same table with poor little minikin
finikin old maid. Fanny Carr was still
tolerated, and uncle Jeffrey seemed so far
to overcome his aversion to her as to permit
various little offices which she was con-
stantly performing for him in her character
of general usefulness. She arranged the
cushions of his easy chair-for, after the
first fit of sullenncss, uncle Jeffrey permit.
ted himself to be installed into its comfort.
abless-she fetched him his slippers, and
reached him his footstool, and gol the news.
papers, and handed him his hat and stick
when he went out, and took them from him
when he came in, and always met him with
a smile, and, some way or another, deaf
uncle jeff could hear Fanny Carrs gentle
voice almost without the hell of his ear
horn, better than he could understand othel
people with it.
Il wish had deaf uncle Jefi''s money,
said Master Daniel, how | would make il
fly! He has not the heart to do any thing
with it but to heep it 10 re. moth eaten anc
rusty
There he is under the window, sale
Humphrey.
mo matter what one says, he can't heal
US. 1t is such fun to look him in the face
and hear him, telling him what an old cur.
think that you are paying him the greatest
compliments Mamma does that in fine
style. Now III show you her honey, milk
and sugar way
And so saying. Master Daniel walked uT
to his deaf uncle jeff, and with an insinua
ting look and soft smile, said, { 1t gives ne
pleasure to assure you that | think you
have not sense enough to enjoy either youl
life or your money
Hey? what do you say said uncle
jeff applying his ear-horn.
20 fe! exclaimed the little old maid
turning very red, how can you mock hi
, nfrmiies in that manner'
'lll tell you what said Master Daniel
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= with the trouble of speaking to you, sill
YOU are 50 very deaf
deaf! Deaf! exclaimed the old gentle
p, man, Il am not deaf; told YOU before tht
a | was not deaf.
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