The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-01-11

smells mouldy here Do open win
der, so / can see an inch before my
nose !"
My mother, red and discomposed,
threw open blind. Aunt Sally
rushed up to her.
"Why, Martha, how tickled / am
to see you You look as material as
life, only it seems to me you begin to
show your age. Well faint to be won
dered at. A woman that's brung up
so many children as you have, when
she gets to be fifty year DID, will nat
turally show it. And here's Jim / de-
clare why hou've growed. But /
must say you hain't growed handsome.
The Brown family hain't apt to. He's
going to be the express image of gran
thar-hain't he Martha? Jest the
same drop to his under jaw. But
who's these eere people here ? Some
ofyour city friends reckon"
Mrs. Leory lifted her eye-glass, and
surveyed aunt Sally with an ill-con-
cealed contempt.
"Ho no recon you're nigh sight
ed, marin; thought so the mint
seed your eyes. Eyes that's kinder
faded out and reddish like yourn, is
apt to be weak Ever tried rose leaves
stepped in milk 2"
Mrs Leory arose, and drew her
skirt around her. Her face was as
her eyes She spoke very pointedly:
Il think l will I've going, Mrs.
Brown; you have other company vast
ly more amusing"
NV poor mother stammered out
something, and followed the ladies in
to the hall. Aunt Sally brought up
the rear, crying out
you'd better do something for
your eyes right off They look dread
fully. l can see it clean here y
Ny mother drew my aunt back.
Il will show you up stairs now, if
you please, " said she
ooh, no l don't keer about seeing
your house just yet Therell be time
enulf for that; for if / like Boston, /
kalkerlate to stay four or five weeks
I'm tired now; them pesky keers has
eanamost shook me all to pieces
And then your roads here is so rocky.
1 got all jounced up. If | lived here,
d have all the rocks picked out of
the roads if had to do it myself.
1 seized my hat and left the house.
1 was too much excited to stay in
aunt Sally's society any longer at
present. Anything was better than
staying at home with her.
| rushed down the first little street
that offered; bat my course was soon
stopped by a crowd, among which the
star of the policeman .shone conspicu
Gus.
Il say | didn't do it !" cried some
what familiar voice pitched on an ex-
tremely high key; Il tell you L didn't
teck it; and if you don't let me alone
I'll knock you down by hockey. Hello!
there's my cousin jim He knows
me, and he'll tell you that I'm jest as
honest Teller as the day is long -
| shuddered. Here was another Of
my relatives; and little distance /
recognized the glossy tile of Dick Van
VOORHEES, Flora's brother.
Il say, JIM" cried my cousin, Tom
Brom, fourishing his arm toward me,
come here this mint, and tell this
man ! hain't pickpocket | say
! jim !"
81 don't know you, stammered l;
and taking a step backward, | STUN
bled over the stand of candy and APP
/ pie woman, upsetting the whole con-
Germ, and myself besides. The wo-
man was angry, as she had right to
be, and called me some very hard
names in very strong brogue, and
hit me two severe blows with a long
handled two quart noggin.
scrambled to my feet and fled,
hearing as | went, the hattering re-
mark of by-stander:
"He looks more like pickpocket
than tother one Shouldn't wonder if
he was the one He's got real hang
dog expression y
| plunged into the first cross street
that offered, and came upon George
Seward, young sprig of the aristoc-
racy, with whom | had an acquain-
lance. He gave me a cigar, and we
walked up the street together, smok-
ing, and making remarks on the la
dies we met.
A coal cart came rafting along, and
a rusty voice sung out:
Hello if there isn't cousin Jim
Brown. Jim, / say, look up here and
see Sam Smith, won't you? Shake
hands with a Teller, do" and he ex-
tended toward me a paw which, for
size, would have fitted Hercules, and
for color, an Ethiopian.
made dodge into backyard of
house, the inmates OF which set a
dog on me, and inspired by the stimu-
lus Of his bark, l managed to escape
into another yard, by climbing, my
hat and coat-tails behind me as
SOuUenir
In my fight through yard No. 2, l
nearly upset a woman who was hang
ing clothes on line. l opened my
mouth to apologize, but she seized me
by the arm with AN exclamation of de-
light:
"Why Jim Brown, / declare, don't
you know me? Me, your cousin Mel
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| broke from her; and now grass
grew hinder my feet until | was safe