Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-05-25

just at this moment the conference was
interrupted by visitor, Miss Keziah Csick-
CT, who came IN with her work-bag on her
arm 10 ask a subscription for a poor family
OF Ants who had just had their house hoed
up in el airing the garden walks.
''iow stupid of them - said KATY, mot
TO know better than to put their house in
the garden-walks; that's Just ike those
/ Ants -
- Well, they are IN great trouble, all
their stores destroyed, and their father
kllled,-qulte cut Ia two by hoe
" How very shocking | don't ike to
hear OF such disagreeable things,-it Affects
my nerves terribly. Well. I'm sure
haven anything 10 give. Mamma slid yes
terday she was sure, she didn't know how
cur bills were to be paid, and there's nv
green satin with uJint-lace vet TO come
home. And Miss katy-did shrugged her
shoulders and affected to be very busy with
Colonel hate-did, IN Just the way that Young
ladies sometimes do when they wish 70 signify
20 visliOrs that they had better leave
Little Miss Cricket perceived how the case
stood, and hgpIed brirkly of, without Civ
ing herself ever time To be offended. e. Poor
extrayagant thing - said she to herself. - il
'-N' hgiA IA hllliN 70 ieA Itl-
- Pray, shall You invite the Cricket- 80
sand Colonel Katy-dId.
" Nhc? /? Why, Colonel. what "a qges-
tlUn Invite the Crlckets? o. what c4n yuu
he thinking?"
'' Aud snail you not ask the Loru-ts, or
the GrasshOPpers -
- Certainty. The Locusts, OF course, ia
very old distinguished family: AMI the
DrasshoPpers are pretty well, and ought 10
re asked But We mu7t draw lac sUmc- .
wheTe,-aud the Cncket- why, IL shock
ing even to think Ot
'' | Thought they were uiec respectable .
people.
80, perfectly l're ana r.-pce,ahie-vc.y .
good people, IN iacy, 50 lar as l.at goes .
But tLen You must ,oe ID, lidi-lily.
My dear cousin. I am aigaii N.u m.-,
explain.
" Why. their eaior, TO tr -ala DONE
You see
Oh 80 said the Cu.ou... lhat it. De
IL? Excuse me, bat Lay, assn iH.ng an
France, where these distinctions aIe wholly
unknown, and | have not Yet got my-cii IA
the tram of fashionable ideas uyIe.
" " eli. then, leo me teach You. said
Miss Katy. .. You know We Republicans 70
Tor no distinctions except Those created by
Nature herself, and We found our rank upon
rgi0r. because that l. clearly tLIus that
none has any hand in but our Maker loa
see? o.
q" Yes; but who decide what colo. shall
he the Iegning cOlUr?'
" Ii surprised to hear the question lie
Jnly true cllOr-the only proper Ons-i, our
'ol0r, To be sure. \ lovely pea green is tue
lI ecise shade on which We found aIistot.auc
distinction. But then wy are liberal we r--
Ociate with the Motas. Who are gray. Wl-h
Ae Buttel dies. who are blue and cplI c..-
,red with the Grasshoplcr-. yellow aui
lIOWn and society would become dread
ullg mixcd IT II were not fortunately ur
itrod that the Crckets are black l- Jt.
The fact is. that "a class to De booked down
ip0n Is necessary To- all elegant society, and
3 Tie Ouckets were u1J bluck, We could r.t
Keep them down, because. a- everybody
Knows, they are oi;tn a goue deal ci,y,rtg
han We arc. They have vast talent ior
music and dancing. They az, very quick at
earning, and would he getting to tae very
OF ol the ladder IL we once allow % Them iJ
limb. Bot their being black .- 90 ,ouy.u- 3
nee. because. as long a- $50 a-C green and
hey black. We have a superiority tiat can
ever Dee taken from us. DONE You sec
ow?'
&c o yos. | see exactly" sand the colonel. ,
Now that kcziah Cricket. who Ju-t came
D here, is quite musician, and LEI old
itler plays the violin beautifully BY tie
.ay, W. might engage linn l.r our oFeto--
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