Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-10-28

run. She made out 1t was awful difficult
to do 'em. You had to catch geese and
pull the feathers right over their crops lust
in one particular spot. Then she turned
around as If she had just seen my hair
work, an ses she: "That would have been
rather good il it had been nice done Think
of thati of course she got the premium
an didn't"
"Lor, now, Sabriny, don't tcaze! Didn't
Wider Waddams say there was saleratus
in my riz biscuit ? but:I don't feel no dis
position. to fight her, cos l knew there was
not. j took some premiums an all didn't
take / feel deserved to have tooken-so
what's the odds7 and giving vent to this
philosophic speech, Mrs. Rustiok went jolt
ing over the stones, shaking like a mould
of eaIfs foot jelly.
''You might have known better than to
talHgnything," said Cynthia, misanthropi-
cal " She had left home with long trail
tca - muslin dress It had been sao-
rnc5 - % The tramping of many feet and
Cynthia came back trailloss.
"oh, now, thought the judges did pret-
ty fair" said Jim's wife. Her collections
had been pronounced the best. 81 can tell
you that young artist from Middleton is
angry; he had about as many pictures
there as mine. They were rather common
l thought; no high colors, rich greens or
reds. He can't have any creative faculty."
and Jim's wife took up more room than
she did in the morning. "Ho copies too
closely; there were dead leaves and spots
of decay in his fruit piece" The Judges
hestated between branch of his autumn
leaves and that "Spirit's Flight of mine !;
finally one of them thought the leaves
might have been real ones fastened on cam
vas will. some preparation; while Deacon
Hawley said the lace wings of my Spirit
looked breezy enough to blow;' that set
tied it and | took the premium. I really
do believe those leaves were stuck on, for
afterward, when the painter was taking
them away, somebody told him what the
judges said, and he laughed like all pos
sossed."
"Sakes alive" said Mrs. Rustick, "any
body with two eyes could seen yourn were
the pretticst pictures. There wasn't any
warm skies in hisscn, and I do like warm
skies"
Jim's wiie's right to her laurels being
thus Wind Gated there. was silence for n
while
''If ever | make a double and twisted
fool Of myself again, 1 hope may be hung
before l do it, burst suddenly from far
mer Rustick.
"Graciousr p said Sabrina. "What' up ?''
asked Reuben, and Mrs. Rustick said "Lor
now, pa, you don'tp
II dol say 1 was fool to stand there
behind them pincusions an tie blue ribbon
onter lamp mats. Didn't l ketch my thumb
in mess o bead fringe on some Internal
trumprey an set a thousand beads spin
ming like hailstones through the air. had
topay S5 on the spot for spilin that dud.
And another sassy little mink cum after
a kroshayed tidy or sumpthin' she said
she haSteft right under my noso. By and
by, wiz l found it in my handkerchief in
my. coaI tan pocket, had goSd mind TO
throw ii away as ever had to eat.''
"Why, Jedediah - drawled Mrs. Rus
tick, loosening her bonnet-string, chow
could your
Just as easy" said Jedediah, bringing
the wagon against the horse block with a
laundering crash and helping out the wo-
men. 'If ever git inter such scrape it
will be because Pm natural born idget
It's my opinion that county fairs arc all
humbugs.
"Well,' said Mrs. Rustick, letting up
the wagon springs foot or two as she
aighted, "some folks think it humbuggery
and some folks don't; it's just as you like
it = with which sage remark that estima-
He lady bado the public adieu until the
ext Liberty county agricultural fair