Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-02-16
5AISUEALAN NY.
Dickens Christmas Story.
The Seven Poor Travellers.
[From Household Words.1

other people do And pray what is that
You Know, but You can't cxrctly tell.
thought 50 In the course of pretty Ion
Legal experience, have never yet met with
party out Of my late profession who was ca
rble OF giving Il correct definition Of any
thing.
To judge hy your looks suspect YOU ar
amused at my talking Of any such thing eve
having belonged to me rs Il profession. !la
m. It1re tam, with my toss out Of M,
'ootS' without Sllrt to my back or rap il
my pocket except the fourponcc | get out o
7 TINS charity (against the present. administra
iion Of which protest-but that's not tn,
ponD, aud yet not two years ago [ was al
attorney in large practice in bursting biz
, country town. | had house in the lIlgl
street. such giant Of house that YOU
bad to get up SIX steps to knock at the front
/ door | had Il Iootnan to drive tramps like
me OF all or any one of my six hcarth-stoned
steps, il they dared sit down on all or any
/ "n" OF my six hearth-stnuod steps "a foot
/ man who would give mo into custody now if
! itrlrd to shake hands with him in the streets.
decline to answer vuur questions if van
ask me any. How got into trouble. and
dropped down to where am now, is my Sc
crct.
Now, absolutely decline to tell you story.
Bat, though | won't tell story, | am ready
to make Il statement. 4 statement is mat
ter ot fact therefore the exact opposite of a
story, which is Il matter Of fiction. What |
am now going to tell you really happened to
me.
served my tmc-nevcr mind in whose Of
iiee and started in business for mys,lr. in
st..t;a,. ,l;I 'o""S-i decllne
,,,;ta1 I,i '"t quarter Oh thc
AMI my. r.;,s7Is i; tL'ti - ~ "Isih Win
o'd ,,.,ii -, ','' S'oorhoou were poor
,r'iN a., "SclcS' enough, WIN one exception
ny M exception was Mr.. Frank Gatlifie, son
oi hF. Fdtlliit, member Tor the county, the
rIchest man ana the proulest FOR many mile
ioui'u ABOUT our parts. Stop bit you man
III tne corner there ynu needn't perk up
ana look knowing 1ou won't trace any par
".ni"rs ny the maine OF Gutliift. | IN not
''""' w commit myself or anybody else by
mentioning names. have gwen YOU the first
II ritme into my head
nina and n,,'l-. * was a staunch friend of
Lo ,r,t .I,, H.! " J'"--I ~ 'pe whenever
,;,n7i,, Lol,, 49, nv '':V 5''c' "I,' il'''0
i' y,a,,.;f,, ,,,,,',,' Vi
j., r.,,t Ia 10Y ' "' " i'l' Ia'o 3' interest
nn,,lo,. ,s ,',nI ii"I w. 'G oeMs. lhc
.l,ti,,,., Ia n,.'o c fi' i,'N was at
strn,7sd ot to,nn III, ',ul'; 'oi.gsG' anu
ti,rra ,,,+ s,r'.,d I,,t ~ m'',io anu '"cl
:, rcno1t ,b,t h.. hnJ f,tin 90, '''i noJo'
s,rin,, i ,ritL lie '.,,,',.s ~ ~ "9 t"e
n,d tI.,+ his ,,,;,,I ,o'aa I'9'o' S'Nc'nesS'
NV t''t' "'' "il"' was in'ae up TO marry her.
-, ,.'t' lou le a' II aeaih; my man IN the
~" "'hI 10 hho" ler name, don t
Sr,.l,;u'r',, ] ou 'nitH Vi oi,'''I
-, ,-!nnr,l ,,.,,, - ho -, oo.i1'ucr i'eporn IN
j.; III; ,,.. 49,. W. ,.3 - 'o'' ""' II liar' Dut
,',r,. d;T'mot Wn r ouV 70 "e something
~ va , -h'' RANK toia me ne was
% "a 40 - II - ~ Unain MtiiIH Nnhhg '"iihs az ms
"s'SJ "' was oe'erlninei TO
hii'l III 81 sweet earring
III" i "o' ''t ! am not sehtlheh-
''''' ".'" eau "er o"'l'' tne So'ernesS (with
50 ,'.' w. o,; vo' 80 ~ i''ie'nI"S '"c memory
i'o"'' i' Wv ,o' 'i'' -ir' rank
l"''oI' Uclns as Prouu as Luclier' snid NO
40 w. W ny, 'nS ''o Eo'eihcss Wheh Mr' FRANK
L,'sinnss ,ros nIL r: ~. ltis;, ne was man oi
,,..,,'' ;.. Wv 1 "'u Nv tooN '"0
i,ssi ,,,..,y Win frst rato ,.o ,,I
.,,,,I,i: ,,r,sn,t .,,l ti,, in I"I'ol ''!'1 'tt
,,,,,, ,a 90 sN,,r,';,, G ~, 'o"'
l,Lile H.. ,c,s Inol,in-, ,,t,,,, NJ En,,,.I',l,
,I --' '''i'N 'Ii '''-
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80 ~ 80 =" 'Vi ~ " :" ~ "uc Il"
=. H. NIn Tn,,i =, ,,;,i az 'u'iv refuses
,,;'.;n, ", E.'',,I. ~ ''.1 -
n,',i '',', l,,;,I n,n Hti''s ~ n'S '"'nI''
INV nu WIZ marry ',e Slrl us soon "S he
~ 80 " ,"op: '''.i,'''' " 'o"" uo'lee
',.' ""' MS WIZ anu ms ua"Snter
'.,u a ao' oi S,n.l''e.''"i'y, no' IN inc s'iSht
eSt "'sico 'h"'er''i 20 'hc present statement;
taAeS pace among .'cin ana the upSh"t OF
~ Is that oiu " n't!'ho I! is forced INTO with
uraNlnE lic Woru no, ana substituting the
Word les
"on believe he would ever have done it,
tHouSh' hut lor one lucky peculiarity III the
- 4. .
good fanily-pretty nign us good as Gatliifa's
own. lie had been in the army; had s,ld
out, set up AS u wine Observation-Disclosures
1itto his wife, us to the dying part of it
No relation, in fact, left for the squire to make
inquiries about but the fathers sister; who