Litchfield enquirer., 1861-05-23
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SCSA WHITES COSSET.

Early in the spring of l774 farmer living in the eastern section of the town of Winlham. carried into his house one cold morning, a young lamb whose dam had perished in the stolm.- The poor little thing was chilled and almost deatl He laid it on the kitchen hearth, and his wife wrapped it carefully in warm flannel blanket. When it gave signs ot lie, she put ln- to it's mouth some warm milk and rubbed It tenderly, until it licked her hand and bleated i'll answer to her caresscs.
 What can do with it she asked her hus- band, when he came to dinner "Tis nice lamb, as white as SHOW, but with the prospect just now before Us, l sla:i't have much time to raise cossets, for when the Sons of Liberty aIe called to the field, the women will have to raise the bread
 That s sartin fact, Amy replied her husband and the time is at hand. l couldn't bear to have the little crttcr to die, though. I'll tell You x,hat we will do with it, wife. There's tn , ministers little gal, who comes out here some times, and who seems to have great liking for pets We III jes, keep it a few days till it gets strong and lively, and then carry it to her. She will like it, know
 Farmer Gary was not at al. mistaken in this coniecture. The bright eyes of Susa White were brighter than eyer the morning when the young pet was carried to the parsonage. It: coat, she declared, was softer than silk ant whiter than snow She would take the very best care of it, and keep it until ie was an ol' : sheep. Her father who was consulted about , name, advised her to give the lamb no fanc name, but to call it Nebuchadnezzar, becaus n some day it would have to eat grass like the ol . king of Babylon. Susa thought it rather a har
 me, but said that Nobby or Neb would d
 very we'll.
 Neb grew famously, and soon became as grea e a pet, almost, in the village, as his mistress
 Susa Whites lamb was privileged to go an.
 where he pleased, and nibbed either grass C
 flowers, as best suited his taste.
 That was one of the pleasantest springs (
 Susa Whites life, though season of sore pe
 plexity and darkness to the older and wiser N heart From north to south there was flute x ing of wings for freedom. Act after act of ol
 pression had reused the inciplent nation to
 tral of it's strength. The American army WI : not then organized, but association Was the o : der of the day, and the watchword of all w
 liberty" Enough had been heard of the a .,) solute power of Parliament; the colonies we t no longer afraid to stand up boldly and decla
 "The people have rights, and only Heaven h. supreme !' Such was everywhere the state
 feeling when the infamous act for closing u = mort of Boston reached that patriotic city. T
 king had declared his determination to star rr his subjects into unreserved submission. or It was the tenth of May when the Port A h. was received, and tidings were waited speed i'd us possible from town to town, and from colo' nm to colony. Sections traversed by stage-coacf I'm were favored at the era, for the coaches had ', ways the latest news from the seat of dlsaff M M;.t tion, and news was what the people of all az nd and rank waited and expected with the great'
 anxiety.
 ock Long before the hour for the weekly stage the group of men might have been seen collecti
 around the old Stamford Tavern in Windha in discoursing on the one subject of common int
 est to all. From the courthouse and from {
 counter, from the workshop and from the plo - they came, eager to catch the first sound of t A drivers horn, and to hear the rattling of MIG heavy wheels down the eastern hill. Won lNo with children in their arms stood at the doors ses look out at the four-horse vehicle and prison ads ia the gloomy jail gazed through the grated the Idows to watch it as it passed.
 sThere she comes? exclaimed half do If voices at once, from the tavern stoop, I'll . her on the top of Ions Hill. Smith toots le
 fly today He's got news, no mistake about Pull Blowing his horn most vigorously. the dr rs- came dashing down the dusty road his horses scarcely touching the ground over VI s. they passed. Beautifully they described - circle in front of the stage house, bringing
 coach door and the ladies' entrance in moI olor, side by side While the driver with one to be was guiding his team through their well-kn E.. figure, with the other he scattered handf