Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-08-14

s"NAo piOuby vi u1Cu TOuHu uCIC nbhiHh SuSh
: money every year, that can't read or write
t word. Old Hubell, there up on the Shad plan
tation, has hauled in money, hand over hand,
and be always signs his mark Got nine sons
can't a soul of them read or write more than |.
tell you there's nothing ever comes of this yer
larning It's all sell--a regular Yankee
hoax I've always got cheated by them damn
: reading writing Yankees, whenever I've traded
with 'em. What's the good, want to know
You were teached how to read when you were
young--much good it's ever done you v
T Sure enough Sick day and night, moving
about from place to place, sick baby crying,
and notknowinS what to do for it no more than
a'child! Oh, hope Fanny wifi learn sdne-
liking 1t seems to me, if there was some school
for my children to go to, or some church, or
somcthing-now if there is any such place as
heaven, should like to have them get to it."
:" All bah Don't bother about that When
we get keeled up, thut will be tho last of us
Come, come, don't plague a fellow any more
with such talk I'm tired, and am going to
sleep And the man, divesing himself OF his
overcoat, threw himself on the bed and was
soon snoring heavily in profound slumber.
Tiff, who had been trotling the baby by the
fire, now came softly to the bedside and sat
down.
miss Sue," he said, @ It's no count talking
to him don't mean nothing dis'spectful,
Miss Sue, but de fact is, dem dat ism t born gen.
T tlemen, can't be 'spected fur to see through
desc yer things like us Of de old families Law,
missis, don't you worry! Now, jist leave dis
yere matter to old Tiff Dcrc never wasn't any
thing Tiff couldn't do ifhc tried He he he
Miss Fanny, she done got the letters right smart
!, and know III come it round mas'r and
make him bay de books for her. I'll tell you
| what's come into my head to-day. There's q
young .ady come to de big plantation up dere
who's been to New York getting edicated, and
! III going for to ask her about desc yer things
And about de chile going to church, and
desc yer things, why, preaching, you know, is
maEin' unsartain round here; hut I'll keep on
de look out and do dc best can Why, Lord,
Miss Sue, Use bound for the land Of Canaan
myself de best way KEN and I'm sartin
shant go without taking the chl'en along with
me- IIo! ho ho OATS what shan't De
chil'en will have to be with Tiff, and Tiff will
have TO be with the chill EN-. wherever dcy is -
t OATS it lie he =! he!
| Tiff, said the young woman, her large blue
eyes looking at him, g have heard of the BIZ
BILE. Have you ever seen onq!"
- Oh, YES, honey, dar was big Fssble; -s,r.e
f your ma brought in de family when She married
: but dat ar was tore up to make wadding for
de guns, one thing or another, and dey never
got any more. But Is been serving. and kept
: my earsopen at camp-mcelng and sach pla
ces, and s learnt rgh smart Of de things dat s
in it,
" Now, Tiff, can you say anythins!" said
e she, fixing her large, troubled eyes on him.
Well, honey, dere Is one thing the man said
at the last camp-meeting He preached bout
t it, and couldn't make out word be said, be-
cause ant smart about preaching like | be
l about most things. But he said dis yer so often
that couldn't help member. Says he, it was
'I dish yer way, Come unto me, all ye that labor
t and are heavy den, and will give you rest" /"
Rest, rest, rest said the woman, thought
If fully. and drawing II long sigh Oh how
y much want it Did he say that was in the
II Bible!"
d = Yes, he said so; and 'spects by all he
+ said, it's the good man above dat gays it. 1t
6 always makes me better to think on it. 1T
,r 'peared like it was just what was waiting to
il hear"
8 And too !" she said, turning her head
IS wearily and closing her eyes. Tiff" she
said, opening them, where I'm going, may be
shall meet the one who said that, and I'll ask
= him about it. Don't talk to me any more now
~ I'm getting sleepy l thought was better a
:" little while after he camo home, but I'm more
% tired yet. Put the baby in my arms--l like the
feeling Of it There, there now give me resi-
;" please do " and she sank inoa deep and
. quiet slumbcr.
- Tiff softly covered the FIRE, and sat down by
a the bed, watching the ackerng shadows as
a they danced upward on the wall, listening to
the heavy sighs Of tho pine trees and the hare
breathing Of the sleeping man Sometimes he
DO nodded sleepily and then recovering, rose, and
s took turn to awaken himself. shadowy
ID sense of fear fell upon him not that he appre
10 hended anything, for he regarded the words o
h- his mistress only as the forebodings of weariet
invalid The idea that she could actually die
" and 90 anywhere, without him to take care o.
}" her, seemed never to have occurred to him.
About midnight, as if a spirit had laid it
u hand upon him, his eyes flew wide open with
as sudden start Her thin, cold hand was lying
be on his her eyes, large and blue shone with
u singular and spiritual radiance.
, Tiff" she gasped, speaking with difficulty
" I've seen the one that said that and It's al
true, too and I've seen all why I've suffered
= SO much. He--He He is going to take me
" Tell the children about Him +" There was
=. duttering sigh, slight shiver, and the lids fe
" over the eyes forever.
IN TgE Jews.--At the annual meeting of III