Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-08-23
VI ISCei!aD9OuS.


I wouldn't have been Robinson Crusoe,
not for FIVE hundred year and no slack.
It's all VERY well being Your own foreman
and nastor and. go on. Lut ticn such l!ie
to nv minds ike a well tagged deal board
lust made ready for flooring. You We been
over It. and touched It We'll down with your
iack-plane. and finished If With your trying
plane. and there II is.--or ought 70 be. # 1t
amt scampei Just like bit o. satin,
every bit o. grain standing ouf as ID polish
"a hut then turn II ov.r. snd It'- all ne
rough. and shaggy, and -uAutory az can be.
LIS all very well bling master and gaugor,
hut then You has 10 he jamncyuan and Ia
horor into tie bargain. Bot shat amt It 80
much. for / wouldn't Civ. o. cilut naIl, let
alone tupICrce, for q icli,r as can't turn Bic
band to anything in q Iu-.. it's tie lone
-umene.s Of the thing.
exVett its not liking to lc alone made
me get married aud ra-s. say that now
there r an old bird al l.lus. and Eve little
ones in the nest. aiut worry lonesome
there. How they 30 open .hlir precious
eoung hraks. and what q -'gHt o. stuff IT
does take af0rc You en- persuade en- 90
shut again But | aiu't erumbliug @rout
that, mind, and hope / never shall How
ever az I said aiurC ! don't like being alone,
for It puts ne in mind oi q worry lonely
time; but do ike having mate come IN
for an hours chat ard jaio mc over piIc
and pint If halEand-haI .n quiet s0cia-
ble manner, same as you hay, tonight, Dick
Smith
That's good tryiuz-T Jane 90 youfs-tAe
one you had in the shop 10 day.--but never
did see and don e suppose / ,ycr shall see,
such p tool az one | lost sllut four wears
leastwavs didn l.es o., !or | sold
It but it was a lcss. ir % thar. Fine
sound tit o hCcch a. Jy,I yUu saw while as
TO the iron. there was never 81 better bar o
stuff cane cut o. si,f,l1. just show it
tbe ilc-staud now and ticu, md knock it up
60 the night ret, and ,Leh-wisa wish -
the shaying- would seem g. TaI ii "a board as
fine, ard thin, and sai, as-as-well, as
shavings, YOU know.
sold that plane ioI two shillings, and
the next week Id have given five TO get It
back but it was gone ag.in, and I've never
sct eyes on it since. You Sue nothing looks
worse than for a uan 10 be parting with his
tools and when you soc fellow doing Of
it, he's either enc as I-n'l r;h bis salt Or
else he's VERY hard Grove
Now | suppose d. make my salt most
iiucs OF else | shoulGn'; l-y- been two years
in this shop but about lic time told you
Of. | was going to part with aue Oi NY Tools
70 You may suppose that ! WAS hard drove.
Il don 1t matter where IL wgs, but 1t wOrnt
a hundred miles from Gray's Inn Lane
and. after beng out Elk weeks, | was took
on. and got nv order 10 De of with a lot
more down into Surrey, who're there was
cottege oruy, as they Gale %, building.
I slIFs of out o tie yaId, ready 10 bust
with the good news. and / WIS at the bottom
a. t;e lane and across IIilbosn 10 no time !;
and IN less than that was down our court
Whess We lodged, and up t"o pans o stars.
and into the room b..are Ey wife had time
10 hide what she was doing Of
"Hoorav. mother" | says. took on ~
and then stops short; i.r ! thought !
wouId not let her think | knew sle bad been
having a good CRY 1t all 1t once struck me
that should be setting or If again; for
I'd engaged t. 20 down iu'o tie country Tor
month certain, and SHOULD have to leave
her behind. - 50 ! stops short
30 father, =" sLe says. i ain thankful ;
for | don't know villa; could have gone
next"
We had. somehow. ,L,f got into the way
o. calm ourselves "Mother' and Father
and SO she said she didn't know what could
have gone next; and I'm sure | coultn
have told her. for many Of our things bad
zone about that time for what with nl
work, and long spell or two o sickness,
we had to make q good many visits to Ger
tain relative. as I'm sure every honest hard
working man hates the VERY name OF.
And now amt sIeaking fair, Tor ! salc
we had to make a good many visits but i
warn't we, for I'm bleet if | wasn't such a
coward myself that daren' 90, but stopped
sneaking at home, and let the wife 20 in
stead, which worm all manly. says you n,
more it wont.
Hogsomever, when sbc said that, | knew
that something must 20 and | ielt so light
hearted with the idea Of that work that
made up my mind to 90 myself, and wrap
ping nv old iavorite plane up IN red hand
kercher, slips out into Fetter Lane, wher
our uncle lived. OF ! goes full swing, as
it was all right, and wiki my mind made a
TO run right IN, pawn the plane, and the
let the missus have the money and max
shift till could send her some more /; an
then what with thinking about having {
tell her was going into the country, an
about how sOon the foreman would let N
draw something on account, If / dIdn'
shoot night past the shop.
"Don't turn back yet" | says to mYsel
-'or people will think there's somethin
wrong" So walks right on, and gets int
Harrington market, and makes q bit Of
twist, and comes back again, meaning not
miss If this time.
There it was,-three golden balls bur
out. and window full Of everything ol
could find name for; woTkingmens e toe
and watches, silk Handkerchief and sll,
spoons, flutes and fddles without any string
pistols and telesc0pes-the one to make
hole in you, and lie other TO look at itwit
glass cecanters and tooth-drawers, ri
GERS, rings, and chains, and earrings a
musical boxes, and composing sticks; :
there wasn't neither smoothing nor
bate, nor moulding nor Jack, nor Il
ing-plane in the whole window and | c
by as bard as ever | could; and, II
Scott you're fool You've come TO I
wrong shop"
All at once | pulled up, and pretends
be looking in at the fshing-tackle sh
and stood there talking, as it were,
an old stuffed Jack that was z-starting
me with his yellow eyes, and