Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-04-12

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house?'
chow have | disgraced my family ?
says he.
Then | put it to him. Look a
your children; it's all your wife cal
do to prevent 'em from growing up il
rags and dirt and ignorance, becaus,
you are too close fsted to clothe 'en
decently or send 'em to school. Lool
at your house and yard. To see al
lrlshman's shanty in such a condition
seems appropriate enough. but a gen
teel place, house with pillars, rur
down and gone to seed like that, is ar
eye sore to the community. Then looE
at your.wife. You never would have
had any property to mismanage, if il
hadn't been for her; and see the way
ye show your gratitude for it. Yor
wont let her go into company, nol
have company at home; you won't al
low hired girl in the house. but she
and Maria have to do all the drudge
ry. You make perfect slaves of 'em
| swear, if it wasn't for your wife
wouldn't work for you another hour
longer; she's the best woman in the
world, and | hate to leave her.
The old fellow squirmed ard wren.
ched the orowbar in the ground, then
snarled back:
Yes! you're waitin for me to die
then you hope to step into my shoes.
Ihope you'll leave a deoenter pain
than I've got on, if I'm to step into
your shoes
lone thing about it, says he, 'she
won't have ye.'
/ II should think says /, "a woman
that would marry you would have most
anybody
so we had it back and forth, till by
and by he left me to throw off the
rails, and went to show the boys how
to build the feaoo.
"Look here says he, Jest put {
laundering big stone to each corner
then lay your rail on; then drive you
stakes. like a letter X He drove
pair Now put on your rider There
your letter X, ridin' one length of rail-
and carryiu another That's what
call putin your alphabet to a practi
cal use. I've larnin' enough to ge
=, along in the world and if my boy
have as much as I've got, they'll gi
along. Now work spry, for ther
comes Deacon Talcott.'
oval, wal SAYS the Deacon, con
ing up, putting with excitement; 'wha
e ye dom to the old mcctin' house?'
: oval, says Jedwort, driving ava
; at his stakes, and never lookln' u
+ I've been considerin some tine wha
5 | should do with it, and I've conclude
to make a barn ont
h Make a barn make barn ? erie
/ the Deacoa. Who give We liberty
" make barn of the house Of God?'
eI Nobody; / take the liberty. WI
shouldn't | do what please with n
own property?
2 Your own property-what do ,
s mean? 'Tain't your meetin' house,
"Whose is it if 'tain't mine ? sa,
- Jedwort, lifting his turtles head b
~ tween his horizontal shoulders, al
l. griGning in the Deacon's face.
- 1T belongs to the society says Il
! Deacon.
,s ''But the society has pulled up stak
+. and gone Off
~ lit belongs to individuals of the :
! ciety-to individuals
as oval, I'm an indiyidooal, says Je
~ wort,
ot You! you never went to meet
a here a dozen times in your life ]
% Il never did have my share Of
nd meetin' house, that's a fact, says Jt
bo wort, 'but I'll make it up now
"But what are We fencing up
common for?' says the Deacon.
ID 'It'll make a gool calf-pasture; I
- never had my share of the valley
he ho that either. I've let my neighbo
,aS M pigs and critters run ont long enoue
,~o 40 and now I'm jest goin' to take poss
-, sion of my own.
80 :. ''Your own!' says the Deacon
perfect CONSERVATION. You've
70, deed ont
- oval, have you 2
~ ~ 'No-but-the society,"
rtv THE society, tell ye, says Jedw
lea. holding his head up longer than | c
yer knew him to hold it up at a time.
hv grinning all the time in Talcott's f
the societyis split to pieces. III
hat amt no society now,-any more
pigs a pig arter you've butchered
mid eat it. You've eat the pig among
W if and left me the pen. The society
mo yer had a deed of this ere propt
~ and no man ever had deed of
tart ere property. My wife's granada
vide when he took up the land here,. W
dov. good natured sort of man, anc
allowed corner ont for his az
90 - boris to put up a temporary me
'"' house. That was finally used up ;
kind of preachin' they had them
was enough to use up in little
any house that wasn't fire proof;
ooa when that was preached to pieces
W. put up another shelter in its plat
) And now t the land amt used
- % more for the purpose it was len
it goes back naturally to the
a twas took from,and the bulldin's ;
=. : with it.
"A ''That's all sheer fabrication,
VOL the Deacon. This land was ne
part of what is now your farm
,ew;l. more than it was part of mine.
n the oval, says Jedwort, 4 look
- IN NV Nov apd Won have a M