Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-01-10
MISC LLANY.
SALLY SLY AND JANE MoKEARN.

We copy the following from the Farmers
Monthly Visitor There is a good moral cou-
veycd in it, told with rich vein of humor that
is capital. 1t is from the pen of 5. Little, of
the Merrimac On. H. Agricultural Society
The benefcience of the Creator is manifest
ed in so disposng our tastes, and so adapting
these 10 the varieties with which we are sur
rounded, as 10 make life scene Of enoyment
instead Of burden. 1t might have been that
necessary food would have been noisome, as II
sometimes is to the diseased stomach, had it
not pleased the Creator to have ordered it 9th
orwlse. Bread is the staff of life, but butter
IS given to make it slip down easicl, aud with
better relish But it depends something on
who makes the butter, whether i, answers this
purpose. Butter made in Joe Bunker house,
needs to be eaten in the dark then. to make
1t pass well, one or two other senses should be
laid aside-while that made by his neiehbor
may be eaten in full blaze of noon; YOU would
wish tina: Your neck was as long again. that
you might have the pleasurable sensation of
swallowing prolonged.
Perhaps bit of history of their better halves
will explain the whole matter.
joe's wife was Sally Sly-when a small
girl she was sly-ste would no. half wash the
milk pail. but sly it away and let it sour. She
was sly at school, and did not half get her les
sons, but would have her books in SIGHT when
recltlng, but as she grew older, she learned
that TO get well married she must appear well.
and 50 she bent all her cunning TO get super
hclal education in everything, from roasting
potato to playing the piano. Poor Joe fell in
love with her, and Glove has no eyes" SO he
married her. But soon after he entered ON
housekeeping, his eyesight came, and he saw
his fig, that it was 'for better or worse" and
he thought it was all for worse. Like true
philosopher, he concluded to endure what he
could not avoid or cure, and go along tolerably
well, only when he came TO her butter, for his
mother was real butter maker. Every time
he saw or tasted SalIy's butter, he felt the bor
rors. Her manner OF making butter is some
what as follows:
She thinks i; of no consequence whether the
mix pail Is sweet or soar sets the milk in a
warm room because 1t is easier than TO 90 into
the cellar, and ii some dirt shoud blow into the
pans, she thinks every man must 'seat neck
Of dirt, and in no place viii! it slip down cas-
Ter than IN butler--she lets the cream pots be
open, and when she churns fnrgets the poke
leaves the cream at blood heat that it NAV com.
quick. When she takes it out of the churn.
she picks out the bodies of all flies and spiders
the legs and wings are so small they can he
swallowed. She works out half the bulermill
and sets it away. Poor Joe has seen 50 much
OF this kind, that he declares that butter dnes
not agree with his health, and will no, taste il
let his wife wonders why he does not try il.
and marvels that he dues not keep dairy and
make for the market
Jonathan was younger brother than Joe.
and he had occasion to eat at his brother {
enough 10 know why he did not eat butter :;
and he declared he never would marry without
knowing what side of his bread was bulterej
Following the bent of his fancy, Julia Jumper
almost caught him-lor there was ALWAYS pood
butter on the table for tea, and he was deter
mined 10 know who made it. On inquiry. she
says
La me mother makes the butter; take
lessons on the piano"
"Well," says Jonathan, 81 want wife that
takes lessons on the churn. shall look fur.
ther."
Alter several unsuccessful attempts, and JUS,
ready to despair he started in pursuit of stray
cattle before breakfast, and wandered through
the forest in the next town, and weary and hun.
CRY, called at decent looking house and asked
for refreshments, which We're cordially grant
ed, for the family were what are called Scotch
lrlsh--in religion Presbyterian, and in hospi.
iality boundless.
Here he found the butter exactly RIGHT
though the weather was hot, the butter kep
the shape as well as the becswax. lie cate
chlsed the old lady about her housewiieiy, fol
the bread was as right as the butter The ole
lady said her health was feeble-she could dc
but little, and Jenny had the whole MANAGE
ment. He made some round about inuuire.
concerning Jenny, and heard that she was a
hearty bIackeyed lass Of two and twenty: She
had never seen piano or attended ball. bu
knew the assembIy's catechism, aud could sine
Old Hundred to charm, spin fax and darr
stockings, and was then gone to town with but
ter. lie fingered, but she was delayed, and
when his excuse for staying was exhausted, he
started. lie could not get the butter out Of hi
mind, and how ii happened know not, he sool
found his way there again, and The result o
his adventure was, he made wife of Tenn,
McKearn. And now one lump of his butte,
is worth more than all Joe's wife would mall,
IN month. There's no trouble in ooing :,
market-the keepers of the genteel boarding
houses in the nsighboriog villages send ant
take 1t at the highest marke, price.
Now the main difference between those two
~omen arise from the manner oftraning, though
Acre ~ no difference in natural disposition