St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-03-06

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of keeping it for him.
He wrote to Akin what he had done,
and about three months after received
letter stating that by express he had
sent five hundred dollars in gold, to
banker in New York, with orders to sell
it and remit proceeds TO him, to 90 to-
wards the farm. Gold commanded
large premium, and the five hundred be-
came more than eight hundred before it
reached Friend Edgerton's hands. Akin
requested him to draw a deed giving the
whole property to his wife, Mary, and
have it duly recorded and left with the
Register of Deeds
In his letter: 'If perchance l should
ever break my resolution, l shall have
secured home for my wife and children.
prefer, however, that they should not
know anything of this for the present If
live to come home, | will give Mary
the deed with my own hands-lf not you
can do it. Now that the farm is bought
you had better stock it, for l still stick to
my motto, Not another drop, Daniel. :"
Another year passed. Bythis time
Friend Edgerton had stocked the farm
with cattle and sheep. The fences were
put in repair, and everything but the
house wore Il tidy appearance.
Another remittance came, which paid
for all the stock, and with an oyerplus
with which TO repair the house.
Carpenters were busy, and the villag-
ers who CHANGED to pass that way found
that extensive repairs were going on :;
still no one presumed to question the
Quaker with respect to his plans.
These repairs all mpleted-furniture
found its way into the house A yoke
OF oxen were seen on the farm. The
villagers were astonished to see the Qua
ker driving an elegant horse, and riding
in new buggy.
He received this short note one day ::
Il have arrived, ali safe and sound. Go
and get Mary and the children
He rode over 10 the adjoining town
and called at Mary's fathers, and invited
her and the children TO 90 home with
They accepted the invitation, and he took
them home.
The next morning he said, MARY,
have got 10 20 to the railroad station,
but thee and the children can stay with
Amy"
/ lie went and got Daniel Akin, and
: did not reach home till after dark. ii,
left Daniel in his own house, nicely fur
: nishcd, to which he had previously con-
: veved provisions. and left him there to
pass the night.
| The next morning he said, MARY,
g suppose thee has heard that had bought
thy old place. have got it fitted up
l and want thee and the children to rid,
over and see it after breakfast. think
t thee will like it,
e They rode over, and were surprised tc
= see the changes which had taken place
e They could scarcely believe their owl
e eyes. They looked through the lowel
q. rooms first. Over the mantel in the sit
: ting room was frame, and under tn,
j glass. i'll large letters, were these words
Nor ANOTHER DROP, DANIEL"
1 Mrs. Akin said, Oh. if DAME
: could only have said these words anC
stuck to them, this beautiful place nigh
II have been his"
|, The Quaker said, Then thee don
II know where Daniel is .
d No. | have not heard i lisp from hin
II for more than three years"
>. Thee would like TO see him ~
"Ies, indeed
Il
e As they went up the front stairs
1t Daniel Akin slipped down the back ones
d and took his stand III the sitting-room
IT When they returned, Mrs. Akin notice
Il stalwart man standing in the room wit
&c his back TO the hall door, and starte,
ii back for an instant.
The Quaker said, at is L friend, Ma
&c ry" Upon this Daniel turned rounC
le and in the man with heavy beard an
lie mou,tachc, she did not recognize he
l. husband.
"Don't you know me, Mary! IIa,
'e You forgotten your husband p
cs We leave the reader to imagine whs
the meeting was Friend Edgcrton salt
Il must 90 and get Amy. Mary, til
house and farm are thine Daniel ha
ee the papers for thee. Thee can sta
here as long as thee lives. Thee Wi
le live happily now-for tint (pointing
T., the frame over the tireplacc) Not A:
re OTHER DROP, DANIEL is his motto nov
Up and it will be his during life. j. d. l
nt -, I,,U &. D,cO,1ler