The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-03-19

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Patton came before the justice yesterday
morning,and was clamorous in demanding
warrant for his landlady. who had un-
lawfully seized and detained his clothes,
falsely claiming that he was indebted 10
her for rent, which was not the case.
The landlady, Mrs. L. A. Barrett, was
sent for, and it was suggested to her that
an explanation would not be amiss. Mrs.
Barrett. after having her three daughters
AMI little boy sworn, in order that she
might use them it she saw fit, proceeded
to state that she had. three weeks before.
seen an advertisement stating that young
min wanted to find some boarding house
where lis society would be equivalent
FOR his board. Then SIZE reflected that it
would be a very nice thing to have a
young fellow in the house who could beau
the girls, talk agrccably at dinner, and DO
contcnted with what he had to eat and
persuade his fellow sufferers that they
snouiu Ue tnc same. 30 she answered
the advertisement and Mr.. Patton male
his appearance, with an umbrella and
very Ineagcr trunk. Was not that cor.
ect Mr.. Patton replied that, generally
speaking it wa'. lie could pass over tho
slur ON his trunk.
She then continued to state that sho
did got look for much of anything particu.
larly sociabe the first day. 1t was only
fair that lie should get acquainted. SO
she introduced him to eve. y-body. The
next day, just before dinner, she told him
to 90 ahead, and be society. Instead Of
talking however, he had devoted himself
to eating with an earnestncss and devotion
which, while it hattered the cook, bid fair
to ruin the mistress. That same evening
she had requested him to take the girls to
n neighbor's, and he had plead an engage
mcnt. These things had surprised and
displeased her.
Mr.. Patton here desired to know Of
the justice whether Society" a, he had
used it in his advertisement, could be
taken to mean carrying those homely girl.
TO party, where he was obliged to dance
with them, since no one else would
here the giIls choraly remarked, "Oh,
You never !" and Juggling quarrelsome
child up stairs and sitting by him until he
went to seep' Opinion reserved.
Mrs Barrett observed that she scorned
to respond to such insinuation Being
on oath she could consccntiously say that
her daughters were not homely, and did
not need to 90 begging anywhere. As
tor the boy, speaking under oath, he wa,
the sweetest child in the world, and it
was pleasure to sit and listen to his pratt
tie. How any person with tho heart of
man could so blackly sander him she
did not see. But, Notwithstanding her
remonstranccs, Mr.. Patton would not
talk at meal-timc. He would not tell
stories lie would not sing, talk to the
girls, or be useful about the house He
demanded lunch, he blasphemed the but
ter, ana was once brought home very
drunk. How he got drunk she did MT
know. OF course it was not with his
own money. Mr. Patton urged that
that was immatcrial, and it was decide
that it was. The next morning, being
hcadachy, he had in.ulted her best board
er, and demanded three cups of coffee.
She had told him that her patience was
exhausted. lie mu,t pay in paper and
not in words. lie refused. She seized
his baggage, and little nough it was.
Mr. Patton then quoted the familiar
saying in regard to casting pearls before
swine, and proceeded TO make it clear TO
all that he looked on his intercourse with
Mrs Barrett as an example of the folly Of
such course. What true society meant
they did not know. His quiet wit, his
unobtrusive knowledge, was wasted at
them They wanted some one to sing
comic songs, propose conundrums, and
treat ID beer. lie had been nurtured in
a different school. His ideas of society
were very different. Yes indeed, cried
Mrs Barrett, he could not even play tho
accordion
The justice declined to give an opinion
as to the value of Mr. Pation's society, Or
as TO what sort of society is an equivalent
of board, but decided that he should have
his clothes and leave the house. Clacugo
HfDubHcdu.