The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-02

wv" WI" TWIN 'pt WI YOU not
finish The slory
Oh, yea Well. things vent on prot
f, y mach as ! va. describing Coz a yrsr.
only raiiei hy some snrh circumducs
et usually occur IN families jut starting
out IN tho world
Lawyer Cobb attended the surround
ing couHts "a seti,ncs with hnsiness,
sometimes wiihou, --- $40 al,sN,s Rs homo
ia political club.Ucciings Fpals the
Fouuh " lulf oratiopA ioNa meriins
harangooa, enj all .uch Ike nattr,.
which kcp, hin extremely hnsy No
han sretaed more hurried"
'Allcr he got an
Yes after he did fairb rci up. no
mau sccmcd more hurried Nth crcsi
and important taauco. than be-. lui
he clhom failed to imprcs hI neigh
hors, when they called upon h,m To rcn.
der them any pptuilcrl scr;ic,. with
the value OF mans dme, 'obo hu' o.
.ycw,ig 70 support
'Nannic, On the contrary, seomel nc,-
cr 10 be in u hurry she could ST up
all nirht with sich neighbor, Gx th.
fold ot somebody's dress, help rri up n
pic-nic, or moot any ihiug else ihrt came
up. Her pretty little COW. which she
bought while girl, made her six
pounds Of butter week, bcsiios I.,enty
Of cottage cheese. Her garden was y
Treasure, AMI FranE Rupert, the stu.
dent was 20 clever and kind. always
| bringing IN n pitcher of water before
dnner, inst 20 have liillu fun i,h the
girls aud lhcn he aie 30 little. his board
WAS clear gain. Aud the shop work
went on 50 lively, that nobody ever
dreamed thai Mamie ever was tired,
over sleepy, or ever had minute of
hurry In the wide world
One day, just as winter was yicll-
ing to sPfing, Frank Rupert cama run
| ming in, IN n great excitement Mrs
Cobb said he, Ellen told me the 9th
er day, thatyou had laid b. three hund-
red dollars in the last year or two, and
was determined 10 have q home Of your
own. Now here q Taunion's house
End lots going nj Sheritfs sale. TO salts
IL old Munson's claim, who everybody
knows has been bis ruin by selling him
whiskey. There are five acre. of the
best land in Ohio, and right good lit
tie house aud barn, with The best spring
in the county and il will go for less
than three hundred, if old Munson bids
II of. Now is your chance added he
eagerly, "lhat lane will be worth ak
fines thni NJ soon as they ret the foun-
dry started, and the canal through
What do you sayr
y don't hardly know. wish lIcpn
were here. Well, earned that money.
every cent Of il, and don't sec why |
may not use il 10 suit myself. and vet,
somehow, ] suppose its his---or ought
TO be- she unused
I'll tell you what I'll do, Mrs Cobb
the money has got 10 be paid down, or
old Munson will take il, aud there's not
a man ia this town lbnt can raise that
much in cash and that old scamp know
ing this. is determined to sacrifice Tam
ton. Let me bid ii on, and if Cobb
docs not like your bargain when hc
comes, ! will give you back the money,
and take The bargain or your hands.
You hear, girls, do you, III pay back
every cent, within week, if you de-
mand It,
Mamie handed him the money, for
she well knew that il was n great bar.
gain, but still she felt u little fearful
and thought it was not quite right Ru-
pert did not wait TO hear her scruples
but bounded away with the money, re.
turning in less than an hour To inform
her that she was the owner Of the Tan.
ton farm.
'Nannic's heart lhrobbcd wildly. II
would 50 astoni,h her husband. f3r all
this money had been laid up as sur.
! prise for him on iheir wedding day
which was TO be the day after his re.
turn. Several Of her neighbors called
before night, 10 congratulate her, telling
her that lhcy would give her one thou
sand dollars for her bargain, Ia notes
on time
1But she shook her head
That was herd for Taunton, though.
No. il was not il was moro than il
cost him, and he ~as drunken old
bachelor, without kindred. who had still
too much lcll 10 squander, for bis Owl
good
'Ah, that being the case. We will al
low Mrs Nancy Cobb 10 keep her goot
fortune, said Bell but there was al
ways something bordering 50 nearly up
ON dishonesty, in sHle Ike tlni--aoFae'
thing 50 henrilcss, that could hardly
reconcile myself 10 the idoa that a NO
man could be happy with such an ad
vantage, even II obtained, as the world
would say, legally
When Taunton bought the farm, Bell
IL Was not worth two dollars an acre.
say bought mean came IN posses
sion And he bad realized forum,
from what did not cost his f,ihcras mucl
NJ Rupert paid for HE five acres. BIZ
= was growing np,dly. Lyinl
a. the confluence VI iso beautiful sest
err riyers. and the county town Of on'
~ NtA' - - 'sNNtA'H w ftttH WV
day Increasing in yalus, and 4 was no
only source Of pleasure 10 Mamie an,
her friends that she Lad been 10 luck y
bot tina, she had kept such 3 fine plarI
out ofihe hauds Of ihe worst Old m,ser
l ~ landlord IN the city. IN faci. every
body ~as glad of il, even Iauuion him
self
Bot, Bell, ! don't like your eSrres
sion, that you could Dot reconcile jour
.clf 10 the idea OF a soman's taking al
vantage of n turn oi fortune. Noah
have every woman live out 10 the lea
Ter tha, great prinriple of the Mssier- %
Live thy neighbor a, ihysslf anA no
one jot or hthe woaid exact Of wo
man. bot should scrupulopsly demsn'
ihe same Of man. Morsiily-Yinue--
Iionesiy--ihe high aad holy principle
Of truth and rgif which ai0fr nnak,