Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-09-28
N Yankee lag 4 Girls Out West.

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the following instance of enterprise in
Western YankeesGirls:
ain our rambles Up he Chipeway,'
few days ago, We chanced HpoI brown
face girl ploughing out a twenty acre corn
field. She was rigged in a snuff colored
'bloomer with straw hat and good,
honest number seven boots; There wat
no sham about her. She was evidently
working with will She had been in thu;
field since morning, taking long strides
behind spirited horse, With the ling
thrown across her shoulder, and both
hands firmly at the plough. 1t was Just
good fun, she said, to take care of twen-
ty acres, and away she strobe through the
long rows-turnng corners, kicking over
sods, and he4et a thought Of / rest Of
whoa, till the dinner horn sounded across
the field.
"On inquiry, we learned that our corn
field heroine was bne of two New Hamp-
shire girls who migrated with their par:
cuts to Eau Claire some dozen years ago.
They had little means, btt we're of good
working stock They ba-gained for d
quarter section of wild land and set about
making farm. There were no boys in
the family. The girls were young. bright,
healthy, and full of pluck and vigor.-
Their mother dressed them in bloomers,
and gave them their choice Indoor of out
From the start they took the place of
boys; they were not afraid of dust or
sunshine; they never complained they
never tired out they seldom missed day
from the fields through all the seasons
from earliest spring to latest auturm. As
they grew older, they grew tough and
wiry, and were alike ready at handling
teams, breaking colts, building bridges,
opening roads, fording creeks, clearing
meadows, loading hay, binding grain or
mounting d Straw stack. In good seasons
they cut eighty tons of hay. and eighty
acres Of grain In rainy seasons they had
to bling out their hay by hand; carrying
it on poles, knee deep through sloughsy
and marshes. In winter they attended
school, and took care of sixty head of cat.
tie, drawing hay from the swamps in the
coldest weather. They hired no help exs
, cept at harvesting. They did their own
trading and marketing, and never could
be outw;tted by any of the store chaps at
Eau Claire.
The girls are now eighteen and twen--
ty years of age, and have done more farm
work thar any Two boys iii the county
Their father, beginning with nothing, is
now rich, with broad fields and thousands
of ready stamps, mostly all achieved
through the grit and energy of his daugh.'
ters.
During the present. season Che girls
have let up little on their out door ac.
complishments, and are only cutivating
twenty acres of corn for their own sr,use.
ment
They have built theni spacious resi-
dence They attend balls and parties, 20
a-trouting, drive their own teams, and oc-
casonally gives the boys chance to show
their spunk and gallantry.
"Of course such girls are objects of ex.
r cisemcnt and interest in the heighborhood.
! They are looked upon as capital prizes.
and young fellows are ready to break their
4 necks for them.
They are now right in their freshest
d bloom, but fhey are neither coarse nor
= masculine in appearance they are simply
rounl, trim, sprightly, full breasted girlt,
& with resolution in their eye, and plenty Of
!, good sense in their heads.
at may be interesting to female politi-
clans to know that these Chippewa Valley
i girls never whine or declaim about their
e rights or position. They saw rough
work to be homework most needed in oul
,e western country-and, asking odds of no
body, they went in bravely on their mus
% Gle and did it. They have made no nois,