Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-02-19
Written for the Newsdealer
MY vEXATION.

MI IuA'Vi wv OuO "O" JelleVe In
"going CONSUMING" people that am not
even acquainted with.
Well-but did you ever think that there
we're people who had so little common. sense
as to render it quite inconvenient for those
with whom they come in contact? It's
an article of my creed that such people re.
ally do exist.
1t is Monday which signifies washing
day" you know-my "worser half (bless
his kind heart always petitions for
picked up" dinner, that day, in order to
Tighten my labors Noon comes and lust
as | am about to put hearty lunch on
the table FOR the refreshment of Johns in.
ner man, sleigh comes to the door, and
a man alights who of course wants dinner
for himself and horse. pray don't think
we keep TAVERN it is little vexation but
I swallow mouthful of indignation and
60 to work and get dinner while John (thc
"worser half aforesaid) puts up the horse.
Our unexpected guest is-an uncle? No.
Cousin? No. Not even the most dis.
tant relationship could be found without
going back to the original pair in the Gar
den. Neither is he friend of ours. To
me he is perfect stranger, and John is
but slightly acquainted with him; but
he happens to know Johns grandfather,
and so considers himself quite at home
with US. Just at present he is on a Jour-
ney,--has come since morning from his
far distant home, taDelve miles away, and
is bound to place about as far beyond
here. Of course, it is more pleasant to
"bait" with friends, () than at tavern,
and-it don't cost as much either.
Well, would feed a beggar who came
hungry to the door, and do the same by
this able-bodied, middle-aged man, who
has so inopportunely "come CONSUMING"
| (why don't they write it cosentngO At
ter dinner he goes to the barn with John
and sees his horse well fed with oats, then
coolly draws his sleigh under cover, and
informs John that he is going to stay over
night, as he don't like to drive his horse
so far in one day, and finish his long jour
ney on the morrow John comes in and
gives me due notice. Shades of Hercules!
don't | scold? l leave it to you, Mr.. Ed
itor, if | haven't good and sufficient rea-
son. With quite as much on my hands
as | am able to do, isn't such visitation
as the above, terribly provoking? I
haven't the patience of Job; but I'm not
sure but that good old man himself would
have been .''riled" under circumstances
like the present.
: The long afternoon drags away. John
goes off to drawing logs, and our guest
sits by the stove and smokes and medi
tates, while inwardly wish him thous-
and miles out of my way, SO could sweep
and mop. But no such good fortune is
mine. | 60 to the window to see his horse
when he leads him out to water, for my
: femenine curiosity Graves sight at that
beast who can't draw sleigh % miles a
day in this fine sleighing! She don't
look so weakly after all, and is just the
$ age of our horse, that would draw John
and | fifty miles day as well as ten.
But then she mast be weakly, and | turn
: away and long for some strengthenig Bit
. tiers to give the poor creature; and then 1
: pour little milk on the hot stove to Gre
ate more agreeable smell than that of
: the villaiDous tobacco smoke with which
:. the room is filled. Enpassant, ne says he
J. don't take any papers for the times
are hard. 1t is mercy to him that l am
/ not his wife; if were | should meekb
e suggest little less tobacco and little
r more newspapers
|. Day wanes-night comes and goes
n morning looks in at the windows-break
L fast and coffee and sausages are slowed
e away, and our guest departs on his long
, and perilous journey. He doesn't say
lie Z" Thank you" for his entertainment, o
r, course, but invites us to come and visit
t. has folks some time John and | thinl
l. we will pro badly 20. "V. FL. K"
: E9y Mr.. Walton claims that Vernon
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