The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-10-05

say it was not what the farmers OF Addi-
son County were capable of making it,by
a little more attention to the subject, and
a little more personal effort.
The list of premium awarded were not
quite ready for the press, this week but
will be published next week.
For the Register.
Nix. EDITOR -
GAS well eat the devil as drink
his BROTH" seems to be very natural,
sensible and truthful observation, but
both eating that tropical individual and
drinking his broth, too, seems to be slight
ly exceeding the amount Of devil anyone
on earth is required to indulge in. These
remarks can, | think, with equal justice,
be applied to the niger. For devil read
niger in my statement above, and l
think the truth of the adage will still be
manifest. | used to like the niger, he
has such an expressive countenance, such
a noble forehead, such beautiful heel.
liked the pleasant little fiction about his
being so happy and lighthearted down
south, about his playing on the banjo and
singing Old Folks at Home and Nelly
BLY,, and all those melodious discords that
he never heard Of say 1 did like the
niger, but | fear that after the expe-
rience of the last few weeks he must here
after be forever sin bad odor" with me-
The niger that l wrote you about in my
last, is an inmate of this house ; he is
more than that, he pervades the whole
locality, he permeates all the surrounding
atmosphere, he is ubiquitous, omnivgant,
he is cognizable by every sense, for the
last few weeks | have continually seen
him, felt him, heard him, smelt him, (yea
verify tasted him, and endured him.
Il don't mean to class endurance among
the senses, for l don't see any sense in
enduring that nigger.) 1t is exasperating
words cannot express what | have suf-
fered from that provoking, unutterably
disgusting sable abomination. He an
swers to any name, and is always ready
to answer. The other night on the piazza
/ was showing Off little, supposing the
niger was happily absent for a moment.
Sir" said l, "Gen. Grants motives, |
have no doubt, were pure as the snow
fake" "Yes sar here | be-" said the
niger, suddenly emerging from the dark
ness, like black cat from a coal pit.
Oh that everlasting niger. went into
the house, fondly hoping to get rid of
him, but although he was not there ply
sically present, everything was "imbued"
with him. Some fellows were playing
euchre in the office, and | heard one tell
the other that he "nigged." l left i'm
medately, went into the sitting room,
took up book, it was dime novel enti-
tied "The Black Knight" | took up a
child's magazine, the first thing | saw in
it was an enigma. I left in disgust for
my room, and there before the door stood
the omnpresent darkey himself. "Well,"
exclaimed l, my beaming brunette,
what now ?" Here" rejoined the mig
resent nuisance, "is desc yer boots, and |
want dat yer five cents, and | want FIVE
cents more, too" "Ah," said l, at hou
ebony emination of Ethiopia, wherefore
this exorbitant charger" "Why, yer
see" replied the inky individual, "dey's
so CORY nifty big only got around to de
MORT east corner of de off foot with one
box of backing" l resignedly put my
hand into my pocket and gave him the
first piece of money l met with, Il was
not at all alarmed for fear it was too
much, for | was never known to possess a
piece of higher denomination than ten
cents) took my boots, got in, and breathed
easier. Before going to bed looked in
the clothes press and under the bed before
| felt confident that he was in neither of
these places, and then carefully exam
ined the bed before getting in, to make
sure that he was not in there. felt bet
ter when | heard him outside, singing
"And we busted of the lock from her iron
prison door !"-(musically the sooty sim
ner is quite correct in his singing, verbally
he is little lame.)
There is nothing particularly interest
ing transacting here. Nothing going on.
People live without doing anything here,
never have seen but one man doing any
thing, he was sitting down. They did
have a dance here the other night, and
the niger asserted that he swept up toe.
nails enough in the morning to single a
meeting house shed. The people are la.
mentally ignorant here, and cannot ap.
preciate talent. Last night just outside
the door, l was endeavoring to convince
young diciple of Esculapius that
knew great deal more about his profes.
sion than be did, and to show my profun.
dity, remarked that l thought he'd better
study up "Nosology." l was ustonished
at his making a soto roce reply, from
which gathered that some self conceited
Pedagogue stood in iminent danger OF
getting his head punched. | then OBJ.
served that he was the possessor of a very
elongated nasal protuberance, and he
doubtless supposed my innocent advice
was intended as personal repletion upon
that sensitive and inofensive projection
| was not damned, oh no but | imme.
diately went inside to see if it was my
umbrella falling down that made that
noise, have not been around very
much since came here. A man invited
me to visit lamp black factory near, but
the name suggested the niger and | re.
spectfully declined. | rode out, however
last Saturday, and saw some of the far.
mers farms on the Onion River, and some
large daries which | may write you about
sometime. | also encountered, to the
north, some of the toughest country that