The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-16
PerseV erance.
Come boys, attention here's story
Surely Will suit you;
And | believe you fancy stories
Quite as strange as true.

not 80 very far from our Atlantic shore lor
where we now have our railroads, was then
ouly wild country, or the roads which were
made were so rough that travelling ten or
twelve miles day was as much as any one
expected to do.
The log hut which | have in view to tell
you of, was tenanted by family of seven
three of these were boys, whose ingenuity had
been often called into use, in their new and
wild home. They had travelled three hun
dred miles to this spot, and were twenty. -four
days in accomplishing the journey, which can
now be done IN less than that number OF hours.
The wish was expressed one evening, as
they were taking their supper, o if We only
had some od.fashioned oven-baked bread, how
good it would be This made the boys de.
ermine to try what they could do to provide
means for baking; and that evening they set
their heads to work to think out a plan for
without vell-aid plans, action rarely amounts
to much pleasure or benefit.
Next morning, when Mr.. Pond mad left for
the day, his wife allowed the boys 10 begin
the experiment, which had been the occasion
of SO much thought and planning with them
Mr.. Pond was at work clearing piece of
ground, too far from his log hut to return in the
middle of the day for his dinner, aud the boys
were anxious TO have their work finished by
the time he came home In The evening to
please and astonish him. The only baking
privilege they had previous to this was an
iron pan before the fire but this did not give
them the good round loaf they wished for.
Now they were to have real oven, out OF
doors, too, and built on the ground-lt Was
novel idea, but all the more pleasing for that
very reason. Choosing the spot upon which
to place it, they hauled good sized Hat stone
for the oven bottom ; then in the place Of
they gathered stones of various sizes, such as
the nelghborhood affOrded-ald now for moy-
tar their sand and water they could easily
obtain, and adding little lime, they had all
the material for commencing operations
braveIy and earnestly did they begin but
some Of the stones were too sharp and some
too round, some too large and some too small
and frequently in the course OF their building
the stones rolled out and the stones rolled in
unaccustomed to being adapted to such pur
poses. However, the boys were not easily dis
oouraged, and after each failure, acted upor
their motto try again
Through the course of the day Mrs. PonC
watched the progress of the work, with a keer
eye to the good management of her sons anC
! before night nice little oven was completed
with large stone for the door, and plenty G
wood thrown in for making it hot, to bake
their first batch of bread, Rough of course
it was, for the work men were only begi0Der
at the trade and besides, the stones were sc
uneven aud coarse that smooth surface couIC
not be made However, it was real oven
and now it only remained to prove Its worth
. which was done the day after its completion
, A small fire was at first kept in it to dry the
9 mortar slowly, and give the stones graduaI
t but sure heating through.
: Toward the latter part of the day Mrs. fono
made up her light bread dough into loaves
and having raked up the hot Goals, and takeI
a them out of the oven, she put her bread IN
d placed the large stone in front, aud in one bou
!, pulled out the loaves from the ovens mouth
: beautifully prepared to put 10 the mouths
: the young and persevering masons. NeVe
did any morsel taste more deIiciously tina
= this sweet bread to those who have labored
we'll to carry GU the whole operation proper
y. This Mas truly triumph for them an
crowned with suci success, that they wer
q ready to undertake other and more difhcu
i work. And stese enterprisiug cons became
d in course of time, skilful managers OF iarg
farms, always ready to adopt the improve
ments the scientific age was opening to them
T. and not only this, but by studying the in''