The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-11-08
Last Of the Twin Brothers Fable.

Mr.. EDITOR II have thought that [
should be able to present, and | think the
following is indubitable evidence that [
did not write the fable in the Boston
Daily Ne~S of July 1st, or dictate it or
know any think about it being written or
published. d. WARNER.
To ID. Warner, Cornwall, Vt.
Mccn INJURED SIR You will excuse
my writing an anonymous letter. | saw
yesterday a MEDLEY paper,and | resolved
Immediately to write the accompanying
communication.
| was up in Vermont many years ago,
and had a ride with you, and heard a
colt story from you, Of which you have
forgotten everything no doubt. But YOU
see | have a pretty good memory and |
am sorry that | have not made a better
use Of it. Perhaps if something could be
subtracted from it and added to my dis.
erection, ] should not be the loser. Send
this to the REcIsTLh if you wish, this
note and all. lfyou wish anything more
from me direct to the NemS Office to, ir-
regular correspondent, and | will do all
you ask, even to giving my true name.
Do forgive me this once.
Yours, I.C.
To THE EDITOR OF MIDDLEBURY REGIS
TER Il see a piece of gross carelessness
of mine has been the cause of much un
pleasant feeling, out of an article in a
late number Of your paper, which l saw
last night. hasten, therefore, to give
f you the true history of that romance in
the Boston Daily NeaoS, and take upon
upon myself all the blame there is in it,
and that is not a little.
Many years since, an aged gentleman
Of the most unquestionable veracity, told
me a story of a lawsuit about a colt, which
was, doubt not true. | saved the idea
of it to point a moral with it, at some
time. Some months since | found q
chance to make further inquiries, moi
, having yet used my story. | found wha,
: had written tailed 50 nearly with the
second narration that it did not seen
, worth while to alter it. Unfortunately
, wrote in the name of town-the right
=. one | fear, and that was Just the wrong
: one. | did not mean the tale, however
to be literally true so | sent it to press
But, before doing so, | did another thing
that makes my head ache. All my lif
. have used pseudonyms. More
4 than once | have given the credit of
. whole article to one who had furnished
e the principal idea. While this paper lay
/. by me, | forgot all about its. close rela
p tion to actual facts and-worse still-th
name of a place thus fundamentally used
hastily wrote at the bottom the name
Of my original informant. | beg hi,
' pardon. | would do anything in my
power to recall the act. That it SHOULD
u drag to light two or three transactions o
: the last century,or early in this, is a mat
I ter of regret. The g~raSShopper h~sait
e (of which | heard years before this 9th
err was, | think, in 1896, and in Yer
d mont it my memory serves me; and
Z think the other transactions were al
older. But to think of bringing a charge
: of wilful misstatement upon a venerable
g old gentleman whose word has been as
e good as any mans oath for fifty years
Q 1t is too bad, and | fear that the ghost
u of those two litigants-dressed up by my
pen with the clothes of real men-wil
= long disturb my repose. And | humbly
own that my recklessness richly deserve