Litchfield enquirer., 1856-12-11

LfAxnk1o, November, SO. @
DsAR SIa:
You remember ptonisod ii concluded to spend
the winter seAsn with my boy Caleb, 10 marx down
occasionally what saw and as since I've come
h-se. I've kept kind Of memoranda of things. 1
now sit down to write my G1st letter. Afore / 20
sny farther, letme tell ron what the name means.
where this ere note il dated It's some kind Of for
eisn talk and means The valley Of Birds, and purity
tightly too. for the place when first come into,
was full enough u the chipping little creatures III
my boys country rcsiience-and here must say
something sbout him also.
some thirty years ago. whe n he was lust 10 year
old, he went ont with uncle of his ON his moths
or side. to she East indies and there he stai iii,
es0r years ago, when he come back to New York. a
mighty rich man, folks say. Out there. he married
widow of an English officer that had two children
boy and girl and since he got back here, they u
had one of their own born. So the family. II mean
the children aud their father and ma /; for hired
ioiks black, and white, and yellow, there amt no
end to- Is in numbers ire.
You see now every winter since the boys return
hes been writing to to come down and live with
hin and this year what does he do but send me uu
NIFTY dollar hin, and say must coue-thst the
money Was to buy . suit At clothes. You see now
Am ieesie too old TO be dictated to- and not one of
them kind to take money and buy brooches and
wastcoats with, tell ye. So turned right about.
snd enclosed the cash to the Kansas fund, with my
name out in full, "Caleb Starbuck, $50" was a
little cunning in this, however, as that's the boys
name-and 6e's got the credit of it. without doing
the deed.
Jwas determined on going. tho, afore the letter
| come and seeing he with his wife was particular
about geer. couated out twenty dollars. and come
into the village to buy suit to please EN- '.What
Kind Of a coat shall git p" says to myself, as
pushed along the road that evening. ''Shall it BE-
sack Ike this 'ere' No, sacks aint fashionable,
| supposs. asfeng city folks-but then they're con-
venient-nighty 30 for old fellow like me-es,
pecially the pockets :" and jsmmed my ist to the
bottom Of my old coat a. thought: there happened
~ 30 handful Of nuts there, and as pulled one
out and stuck it In my teeth, thinks says /, these
pockets now II be jist the thing to fill with nuts and
candies for the young ones, and they'll be tickied
enough to stick their little paws in here after them
Hang the faahDn sack II shall be- and saca Il wss,
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more than once as much as to say, you'd better
spent the money n wanted II spent bought the
clothes. cost. wastcoat and pantaloons of old Capt
Anhler-and the old fellow, of course. just a. he
always docs, had dosl to say about Caleb, cause
he'd passed by his house once, and seen his name
on the door.plate. "You see" says he, tho way
come to ebsarve IL was this: was going mn to
the great palace that are Sasparilla Doctors put up
Bless your soul, its many bottle of his old stuff
I've sold without thinking how was helping him.
And such house 10 Lord, such house cost
million Of dollars folks say and all got out Of that
arc swsetcncd water Of his.
| Twas open for exhibition ard to have a little
excuse, and people shoulant say it was his darn
vanity, he charged shilling admittance. and gin
| the funds away. But such q house O Lord such
house why, it's five stories high, and built all
round hollow square, on top Of which is q whack-
ing great window, all painted and hcdizzened off, to
represent the shoot that let down out of haav.
en- to Peter and full of beasts and BIRDS and clean
and unclean thinss-nothing wanted but tie voice
| to make the thing true to natur exactly.
/ All round the inside Of the square is galleries.
one on top Of the other resting on pillars and p-
lau, and pillars all painted in blue and geld and
oat Of these galleries, you walk into the rooms.
where the walls all over angels on horses, and
unicorns. aud in boats, and every where but where
youd suppose angels would be and in the parlor.
the walls are painted with Danter's Internal, /
heard em say. didn't quite hear the whole story
but this BANTER dreamed he went down into the
bottomless pit, and Old Hickory, aud Washing.
ton, and some others that amt supposed to live
there any how. Then the rooms such rooms -
BARRIERS shop down stairs-every thing complete
except the POLAND meeting house up stairs,
clear mp four stories high And hero he has preach
ing every Sunday. about the virtues of Hafsparlls
Ton see. he went on TO say, "I was going along,
and saw the name starbuek on the door, and knew
il must be your son and seeing We was both from
the Same place, I called At the door, but he
want at home; and only got peep at The iuside
Of his house-snd. o Lord such house! "WeIl,
Captain" says ], = am going down to II next
week. Sc Well. God bless you I'm glad Of it,
and here there was customer come in. and left
Ny worldly goods amt many ; and the nsxt morn
ING, tied mp what wanted, 70 carry in old pill
los-s1sc. and took the cars. Nothing happened all
ne w.y 70 the place whore was to stop; and my
lbOs's letter teIIed me that his carrisge woud be
waiting, and thak should know It By its having
ions blaoa hosss and oae cfeam-coaored ON. And
Sss aDushi fsr1s H. as, sDa inside Of II my dar-
tsf.in-lsv, the 1pest liking woman ever mw-
and With ~. her swo chiIdfen There was black
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