Litchfield enquirer., 1857-07-16

another way, all sole alone with her, it tries mans courage, can tell yon. l had rather deliver another Fourth of July eration, enough of it. =, When we got to Bills house, perhaps Fan
 ny and I weren't struck up. I'd noticed tht
 comfortable look of things outside, great
 many times the hens picking round the door
 the marygolds and such growing in the garden to say nothing of beets and cabbage plants
 and other garden sause and the layloc, and snow-ball, and rose bushes but l didn': know old Bills house was such a picture of comfort on the inside There was the floor of the best room all tyttyvated and sanded off ih fgury fours and things, and just leetle winter under it than the breast of chicken. For that matter, if it wasn't for the sand, you might eat right off that floor, and not want any cloth. All round the room there was pictures and curiosities hung up, that would beat any barber's shop or museum that ever got into. There was Joseph, and his brethren, q selling him to go down into Egypt, and the Savior and Joseph of Arimathea, taking his body to the new sepulchre ; and there was the fight of the Constitution and Guerriere.y Right under this last there hung ship of BilPs own draw ing out. guess, as Bill says, there ain't a rope aboard of a ship that he didn't put into that picture, and I guess she's better rigged too, than folks can rig out a picture that don't know bowline from a topmast, or any other rope. as Bill says but somehow it did kind of seem to me that Bill's ship was drawn with e'en-a'most too many right lines. However, didn't tell him so, and wouldn't for the world.
 Right up in the centre of the ceiling, Bill has got the darndest great egg hung up that ever you did5see and round the room there's porpoises' shouts, and albatrosses' wings, and peaks, and some of the queerest things that ever you lit upon. But over the. mantet tree piece is the greatest assortment. Right in the middle there's the ncatcst little model of full rigged ship, not more than a foot long, with anchors, and guns, and boats and masts and yards, and blocks, and ropes, and every thing just as natural as life. On each side of this, beginning with shells foot round, and tapering down to the teenty-tonty-est smallest bits of crinkled things you ever thought of, there's nigh upon hundred shells, as thick as they can stick. Right over the top of tie ship there's tivefngcr fish, with bits of red rib bons on the points, nailed up; and right over that there's a bone cane, with as much carving on it as would do for three pillars to q meet ing-house Right over that again, there's an old gun, in green bag, which only covers about half the barrel, and the part that peeps out is as bright as aunt Salys only silver spoon that somebody give her when she was baby. By the time we'd looked round the room, and opened BaXters Saints Rest, and the Serious Call, and Bunyan's Pilgrims Pro- gress, and looked at the text of the afternoon in Scott's Family Bible, which old Bill had laid open for his mother, Bill come to tell us that she said the tea was steeped.
 Then we went into the other room. There was the old-fashioned table with sprawling legs, pulled out and covered with the whitcst cloth that ever happened: There was Johnny cake and burberry sauce, and quince, and gn- gcr-bread, and such nice butter, it cen almost nade me wish was married. And the tea Slls and things were none of your new fangled |W0te They'd seen service, and were the real China, that Bill brought home when lie was a boy, in the first India ship ont of Salem ; and guess that was pretty nigh the first India ship out of the United States. The waiter that,stood before the old lady was large aud Tonnd as a cart wheei, and the old woman herself, she sat up as prim in her old chair, as lk she was just married, and was doing the honors Pretty soon found out that she was old epough though:
 NaI;2u says she, yoasbring me my specs of the tnlIlo in the other r6o Bill brought lem and she wiped them aho1k as systenlati cahy as person could. They were none q your trumpcr3 glasses; about as bi6 q ron thumb nail, and the same shaFs body wanted round window in q Q0xs oll! l1ern glasses might answer. Well, wh6I ed lem on to her mind, Ezekiel, say a16 yon come here before ever you sit d6ekn.' ! felt kind of sheepish, and walked round to her. want to see you, says she, and gor- ry, guess she did, by her actions. First of, she took long look at my face, and then she followed me down clear to my toes, her eye resting minute on the watch-ribbon that Fan
 ny gave me, only the night before Then she took hold of my elbow and turned me round and took just as long look behind. I kept a wondering if she would find out that I got mother to take hnttons that waru't worr so much, of the skIft of my coat, and put them cn thcz zhae bal if she did see it, sht didn't say ai Now says she. Ze
 kiel, you may III here, and you, Fanny
 Arbuckle, ycu sit right there agin him on tn, other side. Why, Lord, knew you both when you warn't that high.' Then she poured out the tea, and Fanny she passed it round Why, I've dandled you both on, my knee,
 says she Lord, how you've grown
 Bill he snickered right out I shouldn't
 wonder says he, if they shot ahead q little
 Mind your business child, and pass that
 cake. Why remember your father Fanny
 and he married a Prince, Rcbecca Prin:e, sh.
 that was old Princes daughter that lived yon
 der over to the four corners Why didn'
 your mother come in with you
 tod bless and preserve and keep that Eau 1 ny Arbuckle can't sit here all alone il Squire Smith's office writing to you, but he face keeps . coming in between mine and th paper. l feel just as if she was right here. 0
 there, or wherever may happen to be: an, II enjoy her company all thc time when Tn