Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-01-25

So 'NN-~"ss'6 hhNitpHt WhiSb - AAS"SA
exchange brings us as having taken place
In Paris, is so good, and contains such .
capital moral for the edifcation of people
prone to find fault with the Postmasters,
that we translate il with pleasure:
The widow Richard Is an old lady ad-
dicted to making bulls" and is of piece
with the good woman who poured out the
coffee to feast upon the grounds. 1t was
a blunder something Of this character she
has just committed, for which she has
come to answer at the police office.
The cause Of the hubbub had occurred
in one Of the city post offices of Paris,
where the clerk, whose duty it was to at
tend to prepaid letters, was suddenly ac-
costed by woman who rushed in in great
trepidation. This woman was the widow
Richard.
"Sir," she exclaimed, in voice trem.
bling with anger" how does it happen, I
should like to know, that when one has
prepaid the postage on letter, the person
to whom II is sent is made to pay for it
again ?"
How it happens, madam ?" cried tho
clerk, "why it don't happen at all"
Well, l say ii does happen, and what's
more. that il happened to-day-there !"
And I tell you again that it is impos-
sibe that it should be So"
:" But it is person Of my acquaintance
to whom wrote yesterday. and whose
letter prepaid, who says she had paid
for it too. She was furious about it, and
l don't wonder she was for wrote to
her concerning my own affairs, and she
had to pay the postage. It's downright
robbery, say!
And thereupon the widow kicked up
such rumpus that it was found to DO
necessary to call in policeman and take
her before magistrate. Instead of paci-
flying Madam Richard, this proceeding
nearly threw her into the last degree Of
evaporation. Although the officer re-
NuCStCu hCh W neSuuiC q PioPOA AhO "a
conduct, the widow persisted in her fury,
and stamped and screamed most uproari-
ously.
TO be told, too, that I don't know
what have done with it," she cried.
i" Done with what r. inquired the mag
| isirate.
"The receipt" answered the widow;
| the receipt which proves that prepaid
the letter" SO saying, she fumbled in all
! her rockets.
:" There" she exc'amed suddenly" I've
| got it Here it is ." ~
| And she exhibited triumphantly to the
magistra'e-what can you imagine it was
postage stampl The poor lady had ta-
ken it as receipt for the money she had
paid to the clerk, and had treasured it sa-
,redly instead Of pasting it upon the let
! ter S
/ The blunder was duly explained 10 her
amid the laughter of the spectators. She
promptly acknowledged her fault, and re
| GREETING she had given way to her anger,
begged the Court to deal lsniently with
her. She pleaded her ignorance as the
cause OF the storming and abuse of which
| she stood CONVICTED.
| The Court took the culprit's general
| good conduct into consideration, as well a.
her contrition, and fined her 16 francs
only. 5n
French Partingtonism may seem TO the
reader he can rest assured that scarcely
week passes at any p. o. in this coun.
try without some absurdiiy like it occur
ing, for which the poor p. NJ, is roundly
beraied, wilhout.enjoying the satisfaction
of seeing the blun,,erers punished for their
perverseness. ]-Comic Monthly.
A Cool FARMER.-We have seen and
heard OF cool proceedings ere this, but the
conduct OF the Vermont agriculturist was
| positively "iced." He once sold load
of hay TO his neighbor, who, contrary to
his expectations, after seeing 1t weighed
stayed to see it unloaded. But few
forksful were of when bouncing rock
rolled from off the load then another,
and then third came bang upon the floor.
What's this?" queried the buyer in
loud voice.
Most all herdsgrass this year," replied
the deaf man.
But, see here" continued the other,
pointing to the boulders which lay array
ed in Judgment against the dishonest lay
man "what does all this mean?"
Shan't cut nigh so much hay this year
as I did last, replied the dealer in herds
| grass.
just as he had finished the last sentences
down thundered n rousin0 chunk of 0ran.