Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-05-29

butter, and feels aggrieved at the demand
set up BY the ladies of the establishment
for cream morning and night, Somebody
mus jes bring up more o dem cows ef
is to glib de ladies SO much milk un
cream dere won't be no butter, shor.
We have sometimes described to Winnah
the manner of proceeding with Northern
COWS, which seems to Gil her soul with
horror. She informed US that "de COW
would jss dry right up if you kill her
chile"
In vain we described to her the charms
of fresh veal, a dish unknown aud mad.
in Florida. We did succeed in
bringing an uuctuous glow on the face Of
the cook by describing the charms of
veal pie, but Winnah's brow grew dark
as if we had proposed to make it of babies.
81 jes 80 soon sec one of my babies killed
as one dem calves" The calves, in fact,
are the prettitst little things in the world,
and at uncertain intervals WinDah stops
her washing, or whatever she may chance
to be about, because her bowels yearn af-
ter her calves, aud it suddenly comes into
her head to carry some hay to them.
Then she will loisurely pet and pat each
one, portion off the weaker, discipline the
stronger ones with maternal cuff, now
and then, to teach them not to be greedy.
and then leaning oil her elbows over the
fence, will smoke her pipe and laugh with
full.hearted satisfaction.
If cows were to have a vote they would.
doubtless all agree to come to Florida, for
they have it all their own way here.
1t is but justice to Winnah to state
that her butter is the only butter we ever
ate in America that seemed to US as good
as the continental article 1t is made
every day of fresh cream, and is itself in
taste only solidiied cream. as butter
should be-. The buttermilk resulting
from the process is rich and slightly acid.
delightful drink for warm weather.
This buttermilk, together with all the
skinmed milk, goes to the hands as a
sort of perquisite, and it is one of Win
nah's morning tasks to gil the pals of
Numerous applicants who come from the
different cabins at the quarters. In this
dispensation she magnifes her office, and
dispenses admoDitions, orders and advice
with loud emphasis. Evid emily she feels
herself to be power in the earth, but
she endeavors to bear rule with justice
and equity, and no more leaning to the
tribe Of her own children and granchil
dIen than might fairly be expected.
So go matters in this easy, rollicking,
sunny climate. where the warm days 80
outnumber the cold that the laborer never
thinks it hardship to live in house
without glass windows. generally being
certain that no rain storm will beat in at
all four sides of his house at once, so that
he car have all open shutter somewhere.
1t is hardly possible to run planta-
tiou with hands trained under the old re-
gime without running in the same old,
worn. rafting grooves in which the ma
chiuery of plantation life has always mOv-
ed. ...
A climate whose summer lasts pretty
much the year round, inclines people,
spite of themselves. to the large leisurely,
easy way of doing things. Nature here
does not briug you up with the short, de-
cided. step mother turns of northern lati.
tudes. where if you do not sow to-day it
will be too late tomorrow, where frost
stands sentry on both sides Of the three
months called summer. to warn you that
it is now or never with you. and cold
winter bids you look ahead aud store pro-
vision aud fuel for its long months. Here.
where one can 60 on sowing. reaping and
tending garden the year round. everything
inclines one to take matters by the day,
to comfort ones self that there is time
enough to morrow for what isn't done to-
day. So even Northern Yankees 6ud the
grim clutches Of care relaxing their hold !;
they laugh at iuconvenieuces which at
home they would find matters of grave
Importance, and agree to take life, as our
friend Romeo is convinced the last trump
ct will 6nd them, "cool and easy"
But we are outruupiDg our space, aud
must defer what more we have to soy Of
Florida life to another letter.
St. Johns River. Florida. April /.
PaAYER.-Prayer draws all the Christ
ian praces into its focus. It draws Char