Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-08-19

: nobody u XIII her chickens, but II they
were willing to put up with trout sh Q
! would do what she could for them. Moves,
who was spokesman, turned grsyely to
his hungry companions, and asked them
t if they felt as if they could put up with
trout"
They expressed their Willingness to try,
80 they went into the kitchen, where the
good woman showed them great milk
e pan full of shining trout; she said her boy
t had poor luck that morning, he usually
did better!
For the dinner of the party Of four she
fried peck. Perhaps she was astonished
at the resignation with which they sat
: down to such fare! -Neao York Post
We venture to publish the following
letter, although the writer says it is ''awl
privit.' But as he in the same sentence
tells US to "keap it." we know Of no better
place to preserve it than in the HERALD
-ED
SINGLE HoLLER, Aug. 1G, 1869
MISTER EDIToR-Ime almost mad to
you Tor putin in my letter into your pa
pert was bisnes letter and no bisnes
fixt me and how kinder mean I've felt
sense my wife red it you'd pity me
kuow-Now my wife is one of your sper-
tied kind of wimmin as proud as lucipher
and shes out of sperited family for the
old mans rich and has plagy hi noshuns-
Wal she gin me the mummy as | sed for
your paper and | told her l had sent it to
you in a lctter-When / tuck the paper
hum l thort | wood let her have the priv
ilege of openin it--You no these wimmin
kinder like the privilig of opium tharc on
letters and Eme willin to komodate EN-
onst in while-She said she was glad
the paper had cum for she was Altered |
that 1T want cummin--I told her | was
to--Putty soon after she begun to reed /
she turned to me and SEE she to me seq
she Sol did you send the mummy | gin to
you Tor this paper-Sez | to her sen | yes
did but line Trade its lost-Lost sed She
to me SCI She yes It's wos than lost and .
don't you bleve She then pinted rite to the
letter that Idle tit to you on bisnes all in
print IN the paper-Now | felt kinder
mean and kinder mad to you for putin
that letter thare TO spose me to my wife
IN that stile-lf you new Jest how line
tixt CESS you'd pity me-My wife is a
putty good woman but shes gut Iii nosh-
uns and gose into this wimmin's rites bis
ness and thinks she has rites to DO putty
much as shes mind tn without consultin
me
She thinks she ones the farm we live
on just boco1 her father bot it and dedid
1t 10 her-and she thinks that mummy was
hers that she gin me to send for your pa
per hccoz it was sum that her father had
gin to her-Now ! don't think so-Ide like
to no how she'd git along aloan on the
farm without me-She never worked any
scarcely on it except to drop corn NOW ,
away hay and turn grindstun and such
lite work and why Student | one it for
I've workt Oh il for about ate yccrs-aud ,
then Idle like to no how shed spect mo 10
bc all summer without emmy Ticker and il q
the farm is hcrn amt il rite that she !
should help carry it ON enuf to find mum =,
ny for a little licker-Shes orful down on :
ticker and says if she could vote shed not
vote Tor drunkard or a man that makes
IN and she says the man who sells Ticker
is a drunk,r makcr-New / don't think
80 for ! no they wont never make drunk
ard Of me-. always drinkt Ticker and :,
always mcon to zlong rs | can git the :;
mummy to hi it with When VIC was fu.t !;
mlrrid | prced tia little now and then
bat sens lor-t my propity haiut sprecd
Il sp mutch-l was onfortnit with the
mummy that father left when hc didc--
md j. Etou and Lutte Sharp the young =
iIryri at tho village are > Of best follcrs ! =,
40 81 and them and me youstcr take now
1nt then gain OF up and youkcr and
lor-l a leetle that way and then / maid
,niortnit trnds and kinder failed out VIZ
Ny vie mold mc IL good cal when We mot 4
or soshal visit and when she knew here ?
so was she youstcr cum rite into tho e
Dom crien and brake mp our gains.
And shes bin rite into tie pacis where y
dc CORN to GIT lcctlc Ticker and told the
nan not ter sell me emmy and one mite n
OF Of u fcllcrs got "A wagin all rcddy 10 -
20 bout mile blow the yiiig t. give a Al
arnail when Bin Jones gut rn4~rid and II
lont you blcyo my wllo got wind OF u
what's was goin un and gut r,tc inter e
he WI gin and scd -hr- "a goin to-Now u
ute sharp is lieyer and be- Jest told her C
What the law was and told Lcr to 20 hum II
md said his wife wooddcnt da,ter DO en- %
~ such uniady like thing ~ TO think OF W
DIN 10 Il sarynade with a lotter meu-she IN
III her rlais and wont one ii them kind T.
i wimmin that wo ntcd To do mems bis II
was willin that men shud do h
he sarnaden and votcn-Now he kinder er
1T my wife on that and the wa she open i
d on him was "A corshun and told him | a.
t these dase she was gonter vote and so
labby hold ofiiis and il she did she'd have r.
len arrested that went round with tin
orns and old pans to get ticker out of w
yry man that gifts marrid-Wal dident a.
o to that sarynaid and | mite tell other be
asis where l have bin youkcrl out OF of
ny ticker by Lizaz interfcarence but | Al
Won't naim emmy NOR now-Now this is eli
wi privit jest keep it'll send you how be
nenny wood chux 10 Eten has kecht &c
'hen he gifts threw kechin-Tha haint tn
WI CORN inter thare holes yit W.
Yours in haist of
SOLOMON WEsTERBRooKS. fir
From the Burlington Free Pres. -
The Last Ghost Story. tn
SO long man is constituted as he is, SO