Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-03-29
FREEMAN, MONTPELIER, VERMONT,

- IUE BEAR AND THE TEA-KETTLE.-The
Kamscatks live chiefly on fish,
procure for themselves from
A few years ago, the fish be.
scarce Embroidered by the.
consequent hunger, the bears
etiring to their dens, wandered
aRod ometimes entered the villages
OnS n occasion, one of them found
an QUITE BOr of house open, and he en-
tered it. he woman of the house had Just
placed tile ofboiling water in the court.
Brun sH it, but it burnt his nose
Provoked the pain, he vented all his fury
on the tea-kettle. He folded his arms il.
round itwith his whole strength to crush it;
but this of course only burnt him the more.
The horrible growing which rage and pain
forced from the poor animal now brought
the neighbors to the spot, and Bruin, by a
few shots was put out of his misery. To
this day, however, whenever any body in
Jures himself by his own violence the peo-
pie OF the village call him "the bear and the
tea-kettle"
HE DEVIL IN THE TEA.-Friday eve.
nlhg a female purchased quarter of a
pound OF teIat the shop of Mr.. Carter, on
Gaorlers Hill, Maidstone. The tea was
tied up, paid for, and put into the good wo-
mans pocket and away she trudged. She
mad not gone many steps before she felt the
tea move, Die fancied that this might be
ocaSIoned " her having inadvertently
t2kSRs2 ssIassSaal object. On she jog.
ed the lut0Pig fit. At last, when she had
reached the shop of Mr.. Smith, the chymist,
she became alarmed, and began to fancy
the "old gentleman" was playing her a
trick, or thatthe tea.dealer had put some
thing alive in her pocket. She was afraid
to put her hand in her pocket, but ran back
to the shop ia a state of great agitation,
scarcely able to artlculate tea p devil p
alive! On becoming more composed, and
relating the cause of her alarm,it turned out
that the person who tied up the tea, had for
got to cut the string, and she had been
walking downthe hill with the tea dealers
Irvine unrolliug itself as she went.-Eag-
Hsh Paper.
One of our curious farmer friends hands
us the following connundrum or puzzle,
which we insen'i for solution, by our young
readers:
Transpose the letters in Nceo Door, so as
to make one word.
A red apple 10 the girl or boy who fur
nishes the proper answer,
A College Ytc.-An old lady meeting
a Cambridge MN, asked him how her neph.
ew behaved hipself?"-"Truly madam"
said he, she's abtaye fellow, and sticks to
Catharlne Hall .'-(name of the College y
81 vow, said she, 81 feared as much, he
was always hankering after the girls from a
boy"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES !" said Mrs.
Hopkins, Indignantly "Do you not sup
pose nobody has got any conscience, but
yourself? My conscience is as good as
yours-ay, and better too-for it has never
been used in the course of my life, while
yours must be ne,rly worn out"
A boy in the country was driving a mule
the animal was sullen, stopped, turned
his arched neck g2on the boy. as if in de-
fiance and contelfPt. Won't go, will you 2
feel grand do 5yo G you forgot your
A RACE wrrMk LOCOMOTIVE, As the
train of cars whicJ conveyed the stockhold-
ers and invited guests to the ''Openng
of the Vermont and Massachusetts Rail.
road" was leaving Mortified, on its return,
horse attached to a sleigh became fright
ened and breaking from its fastening, soon
distanced the cars, took to the track, and for
two or three miles kept clear of the train
The exciting racswas finally terminated by
the horse, which politely turned out, and gave
the whole of the pad A noble Newfound-
land dog, hoIdingVn by the Skin ofhis teeth
to the buffalo n be, accompanied the horse
in this Gilpin ra and as the long train
passed them, thes poth preserved quiet vel
respectful dignity as much as to say we onl.
yield to superior power.-BOstO@ Journal
Aunt Betsey tells good story of one o
her near neighbOs, when she lived in the
country who was 'meaner than parsley,
why she says, whenever he happened tt
get of half dollar, he would give it sucl
a squeeze that thepoor eagle would squea
out almost
HUsBANDRY.-A man with eleven daugh
tiers was lately complaining that he found
hard live. you must husband your time,
said another, "and then you will do well en-
ough." 81 could do much BETTER" was TIT
reply, eff | could husband my daughters. "
A tailor who was skating, fell through thu
ice, declared that he never again would
leave his hot goose for cold duck.
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