Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-05-24

PootS u"cit !" kurScNs uuu eihpio PeoP'o
believe It. And others, neither sarcastic
nor simple send them alof among the rub
bish, just because they do not know what
to do with them down stairs and among
people" and so they class them under the
head of rubbish, and consign them to that
receptacle Of dilapidated has been's >
and despised " used to be's--the old garrett
The garret is to the other apartments
Of the homestead what the adverb is to
the pedagogue in parsing: everything
they do not know how to dispose of is con-
signed 10 the list of adverbs. And it is
for this precise reason that love garrets
because they do contain the relics Of the
old and past ouecsmirs of other, and
happier and simpler times.
They have come to build houses now-a-
days without garre,s. tmpious innovation
You man of brons and bearded like
the pard." who would make people believe,
if you could, that you never were " tod
dim wee thing that you never wore ga
rifle DRESS or jingled rattle with infinite
delight; that you never had mother,
and that she never became woman, and
wore caps and spectacles, and maybe took
snuff--go home once tuore and after all
these years of absence, all booted and
whiskered, and six feet high as you are,
and let US 60 up the stairs together into
that old fashioned spacious garnet, that
extends rom gable to gable, with its mar
row windows, with the spiderweb of
sash, through which steals "a dim religious
light upon museum of things unman-
able, that once figured below stairs. but
were long since crowded out by the Van
dial hand of these modern times.
The loose boards of the floor rattle
somewhat as they used TO do-don't they
when beneath your little pattering feet;
they clatter afore.ime, when of rainy
day, mother." wearied with many
tongued importantly, granted the let us
go up garnet and play" And play Prec-
ious little Of play have you had since, I'll
warrant, with your looks Of dignity and
your dreamings of ambition.
Here we are now in The midst of the
garnet. The old box shall we rummage
it? Old files of newspapers, dusty, yellow
little tattered! IT'S the Erening Cour.
ier-How familiar the type looks! How
it reminds you Of old times when you
looked over the edge Of the table with the
letters or papers for father!
Dive deeper into the box. There A
bundle-up il comes, in cloud of dust
Old almanacs, by all that is memorable
Almanacs, thin-leaved legers of time go
ing back to- let us see how far: 1884,
183-, 1872. before cur time--l60-
when our mothers were children.
There you have hit your head agains
tha, beam. Time was when ycu ran t
and fro beneath it, but you are nearer L
it now, by more than the +" altitude of |
copine." That beam is strewn with for
COTTON papers of seeds for next years sew
ing; a distaff, with some few shreds o
fax remaining. is thrust into crevice o
the raffers overhead, and tucked ava,
close under the caves is " the little wheel,
that used to stand by the fire in times lonI
gone. Its sweet low song has ceased /; am
perhaps-she drew those flaxen threads
but never mind you remember the line
don't you?
Her wheel rest the matron charms more"
Well, let that pass. Do you see tina
little craft careening in that dark corner
1t was the only casket in the house once
and contained mothers jewels. The oil
cradle for all The world? And you occu
pied il once aye great as you are, it wa
your world once; and over it. the onl
horison you beheld, bent the heaven Of
mothers eyes as you rocked in that it'll
bark Of love, on the hitherto shore {
Time-fast by mothers love to a moth
er's heart.
And there, attached to two rafters, ar
the fragments Of an untwisten rope. d
you remember it, and what it was for, an
who fastened it there2 Twas the children
swing. You are here, indeed, but wheI
are Nellie and Charlie? There hargs h
little cap by that window, and there tl
little frock she used to wear. A crown
resting OF his brow, and her robes al
spotless in better land.--Ladies' Compal
ION.
A RARE PRINTER.--A Western pap,
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