Litchfield enquirer., 1864-02-25


 Your Aunt Esther says she has known hi at least twelve times come in from the bar and sit luwn on coat-pocket full of eggs
 Dr. Beechers mother was tall, well-propo toned, dgniied in her movements, fair to loo upon, intelligent in coversaton and in charat fer lovely.
 I Was her only child. She died of con sumption two days after 1 Was born. 1 was seven months child and when the woMai that attended on her saw what 6 punv thing was, and that the mother could not live, s;i thought it useless to attempt to keep me alive l WAS tualy wrapped up and laid aside. Bat after while, one of the women thought sh would look and see if I was living. and, find ing l was, concluded to wash and dress me saying, Its q pity he hadn't died with hi mother
 This was narrow escape fer one destined to be the father of a famous family. He wa brought up in the family of his uncle, Lo Bent on, 8 thrifty New England farmer; ant here is picture of a New England kitchel in tile l;tst century:
 can see her now as plain as l can set you. She and Ann!s got breakfast very early We had wooden trenchers first then pewter and finally eariiernWare. Our living Was vefl good. Rye iIca,i, fresh butter, buckwhea cakes ant ':c for breakfast. Atleg the dishes were w"suee', AnN;s aHd l helped aunt miI!, Then they made cheese and spun till dinner ! We d'ned on salt pork, vegetables and pies l corned beef also and always. on Sunday. : boiled Indian pudding. We made stock O pies at Thanks giving, froze them for winters use, and they lasted t II March. Alter dinner aunt put things to ri2h;s,' Annis spun, and 1 worked at flax and todderin~. In the evening we visited, chatted, ate apples, drank cider and told stoiies. On Sunday nights the boys went a couttinc. l used to have the heart burn after eating buildings and pies. and Aun' Benton had q notion 1 Was weakly Lyman, she would say, won't you go into the milk room and get piece of cake You don't look we'll
 And here is, for tue same period,
 \ NEW ENGLAND COUNTRY SCHOOL.
 Il went to school first in North Guilforl. in d great barn of a syhool-house, with desks around, and a IonG desk through the centre.- Tie best writers sat at tho end next the fire, The trcrtatc tool, iH wood cart length and it was lot enough at that end to roast an OK, and that WAS all the heat there was. was about the fourth or ith from the fire, and the ink al ways Irozn in my pen. So 1t WAS, Master, ia,y go to the fre?' all day long. " They fad a parish meeting, once to see about moving the ed thing, but quarre!ed ani broke uo in a TOW. It never would have been ,rt ,.r1j.',t if i. hadn't been for our old nrei,],or Tiln G,'wi1.
 " Next marur4 lc said he wasn't going to have any q1alreing about the schooi-honse 50 lie y5ed his oxen aud Tim Rossiter's, aud went Gown, itchcd on--'WAo h:w B. isht = gee u;,.. a5;] Jagged the schooi-house along whtre lie wanted it. Thea he unhitcIed and left it there, and tteie l. s;'o1. Aud, when i the peo. fou"d 1t ""s done, they stopped quarfeliay X
 "Ih, Il c,nle Augustus Baldwin. He really tool. hyls; t.d gave Us q start. We thou sht l:,:l tac in"st wonderful man iii the wogll.- H. was.' college learncd,' and ;l little vain. \ier occurring Us on manners he would wi d up by saying, i}e as asn ]! and >tutled about We swallowed 1t all, ",!miring. ] went in arithmetic through tue Rule of Three; but nobe.ly-cytr explained anything. We on ly liti sun.s;. Inc only books we had at Uncle Beltons were the great Bible and fsaln-hook Father came over once and made lie a pres ent C" Robinson Crusoe and Goody Two shoes They thought me d genius because I took Rob ins0n Crusoc out to the barn to read aud bea flax. But Was not much of reader" 1t sixteen he ,ycnt to New Haven to schoo and lived with his uocle Williston, preach CT, pious, fond of his pipe, and given to ;n Aicting his scrmons in advance on Lyman ane d young cousin, who were bored alike.'
 Il remember the Association met there. ant .lincd at Uncle Benton $. As soon as Aunt Benton saw them coming she threw the irons in the fire and Ian down cellar to draw a pal of beer Then the hot irons were thrust in hissing and loaming, t was sweetened and the flip was ready. Then came pipes, and in les than fifteen minutes you could not see across the room.'
 There are some charming sketches of New England life ill the earlier chapters of tho book. In l799, after passing through college and stulyinv divinity, yoong Beecher Wax called to preach at East lIampton, on Lon Isl ,nd h .99 he married.
 l So9na ,ar ovr marriage we were riding to gel her from Sag narDor. With great go't 1 nutura we We're 4erun%otrring to fini if there were :lHr I.t'iii1 tl E!i'H OtLtf iii-it U , the occas:uu or tt,nhie. toll her dd Il" knew as haI any faults -unless oHe that WAS pas,:Jn,.t., n4cs, and quick over: but Ii she answered q';:cN We might have trouble.-- iier face uItr,41y.:,,i with gIo" ot emotion aud tears flowed and that single thing pf1 vented the realization Of the evil forever. she saw 1 was touched she never said word- she appreciated the thing; she entered int nv character entire y.
 II scarcely ever saw her agitated 10 tears Once, soon after We had moved into our ne' house. the two pigs did something that veAe
 me: go. angry and thrashed them. Sh' came to the door and intPrposed. The hr hadn't got ocl said quickly Co along Tn
 She started. but hadn't more thaa time to tn before 1 was it her side, and threw my arm around her neck and kissed her, and told lie I was sorry. Then she wept.
 Two years af,e.' he fell sick. 'Old Deaeo Talna,lpe" came in to comfort him. ard adv sed t exercise, go out run down Cellar; ru run upguprpt str rouni.
 As spring opened, weary of confinemen lopeed to get out. One day took my fsi ;no-tack!e, aud drove to Three-mile Harbor-
 Got some clans. and rowed out to the chi
 quot ground Baited lines and threw out an :, let the boat drift Fish would strike wou , haul them in, row back. and drift again. E ,' sy exercise--opening the chest, and breathlr
 the fresh air--how good it Was! Caught
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