Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-05-03
kissing. queaking, and screechiug.
Sue had released then.

The next day we dinned on the
Brahma rooster. And Rosie, learned
wisdom by experience, was more dis
tant to the fowls.
The country would have ceased to
be America, had we cxperien( ed no
trouble with our domestics. Tria
after trial we endured, embracing
spinsters, widows. and even whole
families, each one proving more i'm
pertinent and independent than the
predecessor.
George and Sues mama, sent Us.
from Washington a contraband of
"most exemplary character.
Mama sent him to help Dennis get
in the hay, and as he was reported to
be perfectly reliable regarding the
children George and Sue were al
lowed to ride on the load.
! Louis, the "sable exemplar," put
! the children on the load, got himself
up after them, and then perceiving that
| he had left the reins on the hursr's
back, reached after them with the
! pitchfork, which stuck in the horse.
The spirited creature sprang for
ward, overturning and smashing the
haycart, breaking Georgie's collar
bone, and little Sues wrist, and badly
injuring himself against the stone
wall.
All three of the Drs. Allston were
in attendance upon US for month.
At the end of that time Louis acci-
dentally discharged Murray's fowling
piece at Frank, badly wounding him
in the face; and on the eveaing of the
same day, when mama, in accents of
terror, had declared that he should
start in the morning for the District
of Columbia, he set the house on fire,
by falling upon lighted kerosene
lamp, as he sought his couch.
Either terror or common sense made
him shout: Fire fire !" and Murray,
who was fortunately in the house, ex-
tingui+hed the flames with water from
the children'6 bath, opportunely at
hand.
To do Louis justice he did amnsc
the children capially, bat his exploits
with pitchforks, firearms, and combus-
tibIe fluid served to alienate him from
our ten acres. We returned him
with thanks to our sister, who has
hot since been heard to laud him so
highly.
Georges broken collar bone did
not keep him out of mischief In
Dennis absence one day he surrepti-
tiously Possessed himself Of one of
the horses, and managing in some To-
geniOus way to mount the animal. rode
forth, in his own imagination a very
Don Qnixote.
1t was sometime befrra we missed
the child, aud when we did, Dennis in-
formed Us that one of the horses was
also missing.
We sent to DR.. Allston's, thinking
George might have gone there. but no
one had seen him. Home again we
went, searching thoroughly house,
stable, garden and grounds, hut no
rOguish little lad did we find hidden
away, as we had hoped to find him
Then we all went forth, and at a
neighbor's learned that half an hour
before, George had ridden by, polite
Iy touching his hat to her. Our amaze
ment was only exceeded by our great
distress. We few along in the d.
rectiOn she had indicated, and before
long our eager search was rewarded
by sight of the young equestrian
coming towards US, sitting easily up
on the horse, who trotted gently
along.
Fear and anxiety gave place to an
ger and resentment.
"Yol naughty.naughty boy !" cried.
bursting into tears. ... .
"Why, Aunty Maud. you said
might" exclaimed the young hopeful.
"Georgie what a naughty story
cried.
lyon did, too. The day | came"
he whimpered.
You did, Maud" said R Isle, Il re-
member" D."
And so | did, and | remember it
too; but as George knew perfectly
well that | did not mean he should
ride alone, or at any time without per-
mission, | punished him for his i'll be.
hayior by banishing him from all our
rides for week.
! When the probation was ended, he
and Sue were permitted to occupy the
front seat with me, one morning as |
drove to the post Office.
The horse was without hlinders for
the first time in his life. Rosie and
having desided them superfous cruel
ties. He behaved admirably, merely
looking very intently upon everything
on or about the road and working
his ears in nervous manner.
When we reached the Office | pru-
IDENTIFY lifted Sue out and stood her on
the pavement, and, telling George to
sit very still, went in for the mail.
Directly my back was turned the
mischievous child hared open a large
umbrella just as the horse looked
, around to the carriage.
OFF he went like Donati's comet.
. George still grasping the umbrella.
was pitched over back wards, and
finally out Of the carriage. The horse
continued his rapid flight, until pant
ing and exhausted he stopped before
our door, his condition and the empty
carriage sending Rosie into Mysteries,
and mama into fainting fits.
| walked home with the two chill
, dren and the luckless umbrella. in the
hot sun, wishing desperately, that oeo-
pie who were silly enough to have lit
tie boys would keep them at home
and cultivate them themselves, instead
, of hurdenihg their good natured re-
Iatives in the country.
The little fellow was contrite enough
when he saw his grandmama's and
Aunt Rosie's alarming state.