Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-07-28
Vermont Anecdotes.

t THE CONSCIENTIOUS DEACON
e For long time the only meeting house
= in Brandon were the Congregational ant
t Baptist, two of the awlswardest and mos
, dilapidated, unpainted wooden strncture
: in the State. All at once each society
! undertook to build new brick church
2 Deacon Spooner took the job OF doing
some Of the work on the Congregations
= ohureh,-I think it was to build the win
dow frames. He wanted hundred anc
} fifty dollars, while the committee wished
) it done for a hundred. At last it wa:
: settled between him and the Chairman
/ shrewd lawyer, and something of wag
) that hundred dollars should be the price
but if, on the completion of the job the
Deacon said that he had had san all fred
hard bargain" he should be paid twenty
five dollars more. The good Deacon
found that be had lost by the job, and
claimed the additional five and-twenty
dollars.
swell, Deacon asked the lawyer,
"can you honestly say you have had an
ALFRED hard bargain ?"
Yes, have had an awful bard bar
gain"
"But can you say you have had an all
fired hard bargain !"
"Yes, it was tremendous hard bar
gain" "
"But that is not according to agreement
viii you say you have had an al,fred
hard bargain ?"
mo, Square can't say that. That
would be swearin'; and | won't swear
for any money; but it was most Out
rageous hard bargain" l."
Then | don't see, Deacon Spoouer,
how we can, under the agreement, pay
you the twenty~fve-dollars."
The Deacon left, preIerring to lose the
money rather than violate his conscience
by saying call fred But the upshot
was that after the lawyer had enjoyed
the telling of the joke for few days, he
paid the sum. So the good Deacon
saved his conscience, and did not lose the
money.
When David L. Mills was young, be
was so badly burned that his face became
very much disfgured. When he had
grown TO manhood, he called at the house
of Mr.. Brasee, who had son Of three or (
four years of age, who eyed Mr.. Mills
very closely while there, and after he
bad left, the boy asked his father, scho
made this man ? The father replied, God |
made him. The boy then asked - Was
not God ticklsd tchen he got him done?
Nearly sixty years ago there lived
near Leman Fair, in Shoreham, two fami-
lies of the names of Holcomb and Trues-
dale. Each family kept geese, and in
each family was girl of eight or nine
years Of age. These girls practiced
hunting for eggs, and frequently met
while thus engaged. When they met
one day they found very long and slim
egg and both laid claim to 1.-THE Hol-
comb girl laid claim TO the egg because
she saw their goose on the nest the day
previous, but the Truesdale girl said she
Ene,o it was their egg, because SHE sa,o
heir old galder lay IT, Enough said
he Truesdale girl took the long slim egg
hat their gaader laid!
| remember nearly all the worthless
in the Brandon anecdotes {
n your numbers for June a and July
- naoooo Tovrr baol ,,r,, a. q, ...r-,
If all of US boys who had to go to prayer .
meeting, for his long prayers. In my
lay Beriah Green was pastor of the Con- ,
church, and whenever be
ould not help calling upon Deacon /,
Townshend to lead" in prayer, it was +
.lways in these word, Deacon Town-
heud, will now conclude with a short
rayer,' which the good deacon never 4
id. Mr.. Green was man of great E
bility. l think in prayer he excelled
ny other man | ever heard, unless it a
yere, possibly, OrvilIe Dewey and Henry a
Ward Beecher. lie was once called up. n
n to officiate at a funeral, the deceased a
nd bis friends being Metbodists. lie a
'armed up in prayer, and the mourners 4
,armed up too, until the room was vocal 4
18th shouts of "Amen 70 Mr. Green, b
really mortified, and somewhat offended, =,
ame to an abrupt conclusion. lie was 4
OF aware that this was the Methodist q,
ay of giving utterance 20 hearty sym h
athy with what was said. He supposed ~
to be a hint for him to come amen" !,
; quickly as possible; in other words q
, 'dry up."- Vermont Record n,