Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-04-19
HYDE PARK, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1865

for ceremony with such "poor relations" +"
began at once their volley charge of i'm
pudent questions. ......
you'll feel very much at home out
west, wont you Uncle ?" said Tom, wink
ing to his audience
"Guess not deliberately replied the
former. "Say it's an awful place for
snakes and fops."
Laws yes" interpolated his better
half, land wolves too. Sakes alive,
shan't take mite of comfort, count the
children bein' out doors. But I've
brought along some life preservers, and |
mean to tic EN- on, and keep en- on, all the
time we stay"
Say, Toogood, 'spose we've got some
relations in Chicago. Let's hunt EN- up,
and put up there, if they've got more
than one room! !' said uncle.
Ais we'll that ends we'll, and our trav-
elcrs ended by traversing the same bound.
less tracts-the same vast prairie, whose
native landscape is corrupted now to al
most recognition, by carpentry, from
the elegant suberban villa, to the incred-
able Irish shanty. AS they flew by sau-
ucy, great towns, with their pretentions
court houses, churches, public halls, SEM
inaries and colleges; lovely villages with
all their modern appliances, plain clothes
began to sit uneasy on poor Celistia and
Tom. But when the lofty cathedral
spires, the shipping masts, loomed up
majestically on the prairie horizon, they
were speechless. Aud as they sped along,
mercilessly rapid, through the streets Of
the great city, aud Celistia behcld from
her window, the elegant costumes on
promenade, she involuntariiy sank back
out of sight feeling herself in tatters in
the heart of great city. Tom whining.
ly bewailed his disappointment as he be.
held dandies equally as finished, exquis
ite and moilent as himself.
"Pa, do take us to some by-tavern, out
sight" sobbed Celistia.
But pa was inexorable What would
folks think of him." he said, "to 60 sneak.
ing around that way p
So to the great hotel they went. Cells.
tia and mamma ran in haste to theil
, rooms, determined to remain sncognitO
But alas for fate Since the creation
papas have been proverbially inconsider
ate and basty,
; Mr.. Toogood came rapping at their door
the next day, exclaiming, "Come, girls
the Lacys and Smedlys are here |! They
stop here and are in the parlor | tolt
them you'd be down."
why Theophilus Toogood how
t could you be so disgracefully thoughtless'
A fine appearance we will make, truly. |!
Lacy's nephew along?" exclaimed Mrs
, Toogood in dismay.
"Yes! in this evening at siA
o'clock
"why in the world didn't you tell &c
9 listia about this place ?"
"Humph how should ! know? Neve
5 was here before, Read the newspaper
: then. Didn't you bring any duds a
, long?"
f ..Yes Old cast offs that we we're 30
. ing to sell to the servants"
s But your jewelry?'
, That's as much as man knows
: now"
But if Cclistia had her best silks the.
are no better than sweep these detestabl
e streets by scores"
: The parlors Gf the Sherman prescnte
. their usual evening galaxy of beauty an
: taste. BY dint of much management tb
5 ToogOods had made themselves passibl
: presentenable, in nondescript travellin
' dresses. They could-they dared not
ignore the Lacys, and for more than on
a reason.
n And here digression. Many famil
!, of wealth, equally as illiterate dresey
G and ilnaturedly foolish as the Toogood
. are tolerated in equally as refined, ed'
! Gated society as the Lacys, for variet
r of reasons. In this case one of the priI
g cipal ones was that Mr.. Toogood took
high stand as donor to public institution
!. patronizer of charitable works, and tole