Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-06-08
u must have the Hornets ,,

/
"No, one can't. There are those
five Misses Hornet,--dreadful old
maids las full Of spite as they can
live, You may be sure they will ev-
cry one come, and be looking about
to make some spiteful remarks. Put
down the Hornets though"
"How about the Mosquitoes p said
the Colonel.
"Those horrid Mosquitos,-they
are dreadfully plebian! Can't one cut
them ?"
'Well, dear Miss Katy" said the
Colonel, ''if you ask my candid opin-
ion as friend | should say not
Theirs young Mosquito, who gradual
d ed last IS g6hri Gg5iytae3s 9as gQnG nt99 jteGqtqFa
/ leading papers, and they say he car
rles the sharpest pen OF all the writer's.
1t won't do to offend him.
"And SO | suppose we must have
his old aunts, and all six Of his sis
ters, and all of his dreadfully common
relations.
at is pity" said the Colonel, ''but
one must pay ones tax to society"
Just at this moment the conference
was interrupted by q visitor, Miss
Keziah Cricket, who came in with her
wOrk-bag on her arm to ask a sub
scription for poor family Of Ants
who had just had their house hoed up
in clearing the garden walks.
How stupid Of themr' said Katy,
mot to know better than to put their
house in the garden-walks; that's just
like those Ants =
/ "WeIl, they are in great trouble ;
all their stores destroyed and their
father killed,-quite cut in two by a
/ hoe"
How very shocking! l don't like
to hear of such disagreeable things
/ it affects my nerves terribly. Well,
/ I'm sure I haven't anything to give.
Mamma said yesterday she was sure,
she didn't know how our bills were to
be paid,-and there's my green satin
with point-Iace yet to come home. -
And Miss katy-did shrugged her shoul-
ders and affected to be very busy with
Colonel katy-did, in Just the way
that young ladies sometimes do when
they wish to signify to visitors that
they had better leave.
Little Miss Cricket perceived how
the case stood, and hoped Oft, with
out giving herself even time to be Of
Tended. Poor extravagaut thing r
said she to herself, "it was hardly
worth while to ask her"
Pray, shall you invite the Crick-
cts ?" said Colonel katy-did.
~Who! [? WHY, Oolo"vI, rl.,,. g,
question! Invite the Crickets? OF
what can you be thinking?'
"And shall you not ask the Locusts,
or the Grasshoppers ?''
"Ccrtainly. The Locusts Of course
"a very old distinguished family 5
and the Grasshoppers are pretty well
and ought to be asked. But we must
draw line somewherc,-and the
Crickets, why. it's shocking even tc
think off,
a thought they were nice, respecta
bic people
80, perfectly nice and respectable
very good people, in fact, 50 far as
that goes. But then you must see
the difficulty"
"My dear cousin, | am afraid yoI
must explain"
why, their color, to be sure. Don.
you see ?"
OH said the Colonel. "That's
it, is it? Excuse me, but | have beer
, living in France, where these distinc
tions are wholly unknown, and | have
: not yet got myself in the train o
fashionable ideas here
, "Well, then, let me teach you" sale
t Miss Katy. "You know we Republi
5 cans 90 for no distinctions eXcep
those created by Nature herself, anC
' we found our rank upon color, becauS
| that is clearly thing that none ha
any hand in but our Maker. Yol
: see?"
4 "Yes; but who decides what colo
t shall be the reigning color p
I'm surprised to hear the question
V The only true color-the only prope
one-is our color, to be sure. /
= lovely pea green is the precise shad
on which we found aristOcratic distinC
ton. But then we are liberal; W
e associate with the Moths, who ar
= gray; with the Butterflies, who ar
t blue and coIored: with the GrasshOI
S pers, yellow and brown and societ
would become dreadfully mixed if
q were not fortunately ordered that tn
n Crickets are black as jet. The fac
q is that a class to be looked down VI
T on is necessary to all elegant societ,
z dllu IL IuC OIlChCIo NCIC lIOG DlbCh, w
It could not keep them down, becaus
s, as everybody knows, they are often
!. good deal cleverer than we are
They have vast talent for music an
- dancing. They are very quick ;
learning, and would be getting to tt
very top of the ladder if we once a
y lowed them to climb. But their beiI
y black is a convenience, because, ;
y long as we are green and they blac
we have superiority that can new
be taken from bs. Don't you s,
E. now ?"
30 yes, see exactly" said Il
n Colonel.
g, "Now that Keziah Cricket, wi
inst came in here, is quite musicia
:" and her old father plays the viol
III beautifully; by the way, we might e
It gage him for our orchestra"
lie And so Miss Katy's ball came G
is and the performers kept it up fro