Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-01-16
UnluckY DAYS.

Mrs. Flimmins will not undertake sea voy-
age on Friday nor would she, on any account,
allo her daughter Mary to be married on that
day OF the week. She has graf pity tor the
poor Red Indians who will not do certain things
while the moon presents certain appearance
and who attach all kinds OF powers TO poor dumb
brutes vet, if her cat purrs more than usual
she accepts the warning, and abandons the trip
she had promised herself on the morrow.
Miss Nppers subscrbes largely to the fund
for eradcating superstitlons from the minds OF
the wretched nhab ants of Kamschatka and
while she is calculating the advantages to be
derived from mission to the South Sea Is
lands, to do away with the fearful supersttlous
reverence in which these poor dear islanders
hold their native flea coal pops from her fire,
and she at once augurs from its shape an abund-
ance of money, that will enable her to set her
pious undertaking in operation ; but on no &C.
count will she commence collecting subscrip.
hons, because she has always remarked that
Monday is her unlucky day, On Mondty her
poodle died and on Monday she caught that
severe cold at Brighton from the effects Of which
she IS afraid she will never recover.
Mrs. Camne is a very strong minded wo-
man. Her unlucky day is "Wednesday. On a
Wednesday she first caught that flush which
she has never been able to hase from her
cheeks, and on one of these fatal days her Maria
took the scarlet fev,r Therefore, she Will not
60 to pic NC Oh Wednesday, because she
feels convinced that the day will turn ont wet,
Or that the wheel will come OF the carriage,-
Yet the other morning, when GYPSY was caught
telling her eldest daughter her fortune, Mrs.
Carmine very properly reprOached the ist born
for her weakness, in giving any heed to the silly
mumblings of the old woman. Mrs. Carmne is
considered to be woman OF uncommon acute
ness. She attaches no Importance whatever to
the star under which child is horn-doeS not
tn Ink there is a pin to choose between Jupiter
and Neptune and she has positive contempt
for ghosts but she believes in nothing that
IS begun, continued, or ended on a Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Crumpe, on the contaryy has seen many
ghosts, in Iuct, is by this time quite intimate
with one or two Of the mysterious brotherhood /;
but at the same time she is at a loss 10 UNDER
stand how any woman IN her SENSES, can believe
Thursday. to be a more fortunate day than
Wednesday, or why Monday is to be black k-balled
from the Mrs. J nes' calendar. She can st tie,
on her oath, that the ghost OF her old schoole-
low, Eliza Artlchoke, appeared at her bedside
on certain night, and she distinctly saw the
mole on its left cheek, which poor EuzI, during
her brief career, had vainly endeavored to eradi.
cate, with all sorts of POISONOUS things. The
ghost, moreover, lsped--sn did Eliza This
was all clear enough to Miss Crumpe, and she
considered it personal insult for any body to
suas scst faith rvit,l lpparltons existed only
in her overwrought Imagination. Sae had an
affection for her ghostly VISITORS and would not
hear word to theiI disparagement.
The unearhly warnings which Mrs. Piptoss
had received had we'll nigh spoiled her furni-
ture. When a relative dies, the fact is not an
nounced to her in the commonplace form of
letter nc, an invisible SIedge hammer falls upon
her iiroadwood, an invisible power upsets her
loO-tablr, all the doors Of her house unanimous
ly blow open, or a coffin fles out OF the fle into
her lap.