Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-03-20

| white man to stick in. Five cabins scat
tered around q central clearing were the
only "edifces' discernible, none of which
had very striking resemblance to the
" lithographcal border embellishments. "
Four of the old cabins were old settlers, the
fifth the residence of sanguine succor
who had had the backbone to pitch in.
approached the most commodious of the
tenements and enquired of a sylvan maid
that | discerned standing on a big log and
chopping away right and left like all thun-
der, as to whether | could git to stay with
'em till morning, and after n brief com.
munication with the inmates, was in
formed that | could stay if | chose. So
coming down from my rampant steed, |
entered the cabin, whose interior walls
were well garnished with weapons and tro-
phies of the hunt, and populous with such
an army of progeny as would have caused
the neighbors of John Rogers to have mar
veled
After the customary meal began CONVEX
sation with mine host,a pow srful tackwoods-
man with head as big as his cabin, and
told him the nature of my 'arrant, as he
chose to term it. 80 them cussed land
sharks have been cumming you, have they
sent ye all 1.-The way out here from Yankee
land to squat, did they Look ye, stranger,
| believe somebody somew here has bought
this land we live on of somebody some
where, the devil only may know who, but |
wouldn't give box of shootin' caps for all
your coon tricks and guarantees there; they
amt worth shucks. What's the use on
em If you want to squat here why Just
pitch in, and d--n the writings, they
won't spoon here; make a squat, and if any
of them stealing, thieving landsharking
pirates of the devil, ever sticks their snouts
in your porridge and says it's theirs, and
tells you to hustle, just knock the hind
sights right square out of EN-, and send
them adrift-that's the wav we manage
such matters here-spot EN- so you d know
their hides if you seed 'em in lanyard the
day of judgment-that's the legal text to
run by, no costs about that. Should like to
have you settle in here, stranger like your
looks; it's kind of root hog or die place,
know, but you'd stan it after year OF
two. reckon. Wen all turn to and help
you roll up q cabin. How much family you
got stranger Regular swad on 'em haiint
yet Need right smart of room then, lG by
IS, perhaps. Not married By the great
mackerel, that gifts me. Must have a wife
if you squat-if you haint got no old
woman, you don't have no meat and bread
but you'll mind o. that | reckon. You had
better squat, stranger, and if any of them
Wrapper -jawed landsharks ever tell you tc
hist, give em a belshazzer right over the eye
or just drop the blossom end of a hickory on
their rotten calabashes. After few more
expletives on the summary treatment of land
lobbers he concluded
Weary with my long trip-hammer ride
| began meditating how they intended
should pass the night. There were two
rooms in the edifce, the one below, eighteen
/ i:rt square, containing two beds, one table
and the whole household furniture complete
The upper apartment was loft. there be
| ing an intervening space of four feet be
tween the ridgepole and floor, with ladde,
in the corner by way OF staircase. az
which primitive ar rangemcnt n9d seen
full decade OF Juveniles DEPART. What the
exact lodging capacities of the loft We're
could not accurately determine | intima.
teu TINT II convenient / would like to 90 tC
bed, to which my hostess replied by point
ing to the couch, and told me to bunk in >
when | chose. Strange customs they had
Understanding O fellow to bed before the
women, but | wont dilate - taking my
| breeches off behind the neadboard, ] re.
tired Deuce Of retiring, wasn't it
| Having made up my mind that if the com
pany In New York had actually purchased
the land should not wholly lose my invest.
ment, speedily came to the conclusion that
| should not become n citizen of Succorville
Immediately, and soon after was asleep
And on the morrow, in company with my
turi-tearing siiadda, departed out of the
land of promise
And now that | have given you an ac-
count of Succoryile as found it, let mt
also give, if you are still desirous of set
thng the W Western frontier, n little advice
as result Of my Western Investigations
Don't bring along with you lots of house
hold furniture and fancy articles-thc,
would be useless, besides you would neve
get them here unless you chartered a tal
loon Tor aerial transportation, as the "lro
jectod railroad projects itself over the lei
some ways. You need not bring alun!
your solars and astrals, for they are obsolet
here-they don use even candles. If the
want more light than what proceeds Gron
the huge fire place, they put some coon
oil in an old saucer, winch is put on tn
top of the teapot, first to give it a propc
elevation and next to subservc the purpos
of kiver. A piece of moss or an oil
rag is set a-lre and dropped IN the oil
which burns a long time, making splen
did light. Because talked about a teapo
don't imagine that they have any tea her
nothing Of the kind-that is, Of the rel
Souchong stripe. In the fall, just belor
frost, they gather a quantity Of blackberr
and raspberry leaves and dry them an
steep them as occasion may require. Blu
you .would like that after little-ho'
use doth breed habit in man, said Shaks
peare, and even so it is,
Tables, chairs, and bedsteads are usual
made by inserting II few pins into augt
holes in the third or fourth log, with a ST
peraddition Of boardo two. Don't subscrt
for any paper to be sent to your addre'
in Succorvillc, for the post Office is Il mile
distant in straight line Bring along
pot, ane AK, a shooting iron, and ie
yars of kaliker just to hide the old w
man in" You see it wont cost you muc
to start out here, but | advise you to sta
in New England. You can't live but OF
life any way, and | advise you to live th,
in Massachusetts-it's a pretty good o.
state after all. Perhaps you might mai
more money out West somewhere, but
trust that you are not such egregioI
} old skunk as to live for money exclusiyel
: You will be just as well off one hundrt
years from now if you stay in Massach'
setts. Yours truly, A SuCcoR.
, A MEXICAN BARoMETER.-On board Il
Mexican steamer, is barometer of the mo