The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-01-20

doorwith all their might sung out
como in, md who should open the
door but Mr.. Mordecai as sure as
you're alive and there | was in my
buds, struck all up in heapl He
cracked his silver handled whip, and
says he win you have the pleasure
of going to ride, Miss Jersey, this
afternoon, with meg eyes says T.
/ should be dreadful glad to- He
made bow as graceful as q willow,
and cracked his whip again and went
off | left my work and went and
fixed up, and whom he came, ] guess l
didn't look very bad. OFF we went,
and ! guess few felt smarter that day
than ] did We overlook Liab Gavish
going b mill but | didnt see HIM
Fanny Ranoiful see us go by and ran
and tore off every bit Of the red ribbon.
This ride kind Of broke the ice, and he
used to call any time. Liab came one
night when he was there but Mr.. Nor
decai outstaid him, and the poor fell
low never came afterwards didn't
have much to say to the Tipernie
folks; the Boston merchants wife was
to be lady, and | began to practice.
lie didn't creep along like a snail, as
Gavish did he soon made bold to
ask me, how OF course, / told
him yes, and matters went on brayely.
Father used to say the outside of the
pocket was too fine to be very well
lined but | thought knew better. /
had heard of folks being in love, and
from the symptoms, / concluded | was
| took to reading, though / didn't like
it much then and I've never wanted to
look in n book since. l read the
Romance of the Forest through four
times and l thought | was just like the
heroine got my fring-out, and a
pretty smart one it was too for them
days. l threw up spinning, and weay-
ing, andmilking Mr. Mordecai said,
it would spoil my beauty, and that no
ladies did such things. We were pub
lished finally, and he came to see me
in the evening. As | was going off so
soon, father had hired an Irish girl
that came along to live with him. Mr.
Mo -decai and l were sitting in the
best room, talking over as young folks
will, what fine things we should do
when we were married, and where We
should go when we went to Boston,
when the girl come in to ask me a
question Mr. Mordecai" here Miss
Patty stopped moment, to pick up n
stitch she had dropped carelessly, and
then continued -"Mr Mordecai was
back towards her but at the voice, he
hoped round ike cleyel of parching
corn, and turned first as red as coal
of fire, and then as pale as ghost. The
girl seemed as much scared as he was;
but she sung ont, The Lord help you,
Bin Mordecai, is that you? I'll be
bothered if thought Of finding you
here He never answered a word,
but looked as if he ,could hare died. l
sat ont to faint away, but wanted to
how ii would end; so only said,
DO tell me and sat down Before
she could say another word, he caught
his hat, and was out of the door like
hot shot Father run into tho room
to see what the racket was, and then
she told the whole and such sur
PRISE as it was to u.s.. How that Bill
Mordccai was a kind of founding
child, as some folks politely termed
it; that his mother found it coming
from Ireland that he was born in the
Boston aims house, and lived there till
gentleman took him to live with rim
at the same place with her how he
courted and when'h he was out of his
time, married her. She said he always
had a great fancy for dressing up,
but that nobody knew how he got his
money till one night, the tavern keep
er, where he lived as hostler, found
him taking his choice out of some sill
yer plate, and lodged him in Jail for
six months. She had never seen him
since till then, and it was about two
years. She was mad enough, when
she found that he was thinking of
marrying again, and father was mad,
and | took to crying and such time
as we had But Mordecai got partly
paid going home. Lab Gavish and
two or three of the young men that
.owed him a spite, had agreed to way
lay him going home that night. They
were waiting, and without saying a
word or knowing what had happened,
they mastered his hands and feet,
sprinkled him with few gallons of mo-
lasses, and then rolled him, without
more ado in n small sand hill, side