The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04
POETRY.
Betsey Destroys the Paper,
A Sequel TO "BetSey and 1 are out
nv uRrsN pAppoN RosTWucK,


A Sequel TO "Betsey and are Out"
BY HELEN BARRON BosTwIcK.
I've brought back the paper, lawyer, and fetched
To zee that things ale regular. settled up lair and
clear; Inn
For I've been alking with Caleb. and Cal.b has
been TALK. with me, - ,oa
And the mount OF it is we're minded to ny o'''
more TO Ggree.
So L came here on the business -only "o'u ~
caleb is stalking pes.vines and couldn oo"'' ~
Just to lei you and parson how we've eh' nsea our
So mi Iear nm The paper, lawyer you see it wasn't
signed.
And now if parson is ready, I'll walk with him to-
want to thank him for some things; Twas kind of
He showed the Christian spirit stood by us firm and
We mightn't have changed our mind. squire, if he'd
been lawyer too.
BLOWN trees
Something about them lawyers always makes me
wasn't bound to state particulars to that man,
But it's right you should know, PAL son, about our
change OF pan.
We'd been some days waverin' little, Caleb and
And wished the hateful paper was at the bottom OF
But guess twas the prayer last evening, and the
y, few words you said,
That thawed the ice between u.s. and BIZ, uyht things
to a head.
You see when we came to division, there was things
u, that wouldn't divide
There was our tweve-year- old baby she couldn't be
satisfied!
To go with one the other but just kept whimper-
in low.
"I'll stay with papa and mamma, and where they go
III CO."
Then there Grandsre's Bible, he died on our
We couldn't 6alve the old Bible, and should it 60 or
stay? =
The sheets that was Caleb's mothers; her sampler
the wall,
With the sweet old names worked in---rryphena,
and kunice and Paul.
1t began to be hard, them parson, but it grew harder
Talking OF Caleb established down at McHenrys-
Three dollars week 'twoud cost him, no mendin,
AMI board at the widow Meac ham s. a woman III 1t
wears false hair.
Still we went on.a talkn'; agreed to knit some
And make dozen striped shirts. and pair OF
And he was to cut doorway from tn, Kitchen to
the she'd -,
Save You climbing steps much in frosty weather.
he said.
He brought me the pen at ast--I felt snkin'--and
Looked as he did with til, agur in the spring OF six
ty three; " 80
Twas then you dropped in, parson; twasn't much
Little children love one another"-.bu the thing
was Killed stone dead.
should lket make confession not that I'm going
The fault was all on my side, that never was NV
But it may be true that women tho how tits can't
Are trfe more agor.yat,no ,,.
to be. - -A0A ANo" no"
nen np psrson, the neighbors meddn', it wasn't
And tn church laboin' with us, twas worse than
And I've thought and so has Caleb. though mavbe
we are wrong, "1oo
eney,d kept to their own business We should
inere was Deacon Amos Purdy, a good man, as we
and hoe; WIN 'ne soy'ho
linen hn load in peach time from the Will
season OF prayer" they called it-didn't do an at
ON OF good.
I'll tell you about the heifer, one OF the kindest and
That brother Ephraim gave me- the Fall he moved
I'm Zee to say it ried me, that Caleb should think
She died OF commissions, COW that MIXED four GAL
Ions day. i0"i gar
h meeaa a have spoke OF turnips needn't have
anu sa a hard things, and limited as if twas all nv
And I'll take it all back narson tho,
break out ' -''0 enah ever
inougn M the cow was chOked with turnip, never
linen s there are pints OF doctrine and views of a
. 1utur state, "
I'm w1n to stop dscussin,-we can hotb o. ,xa ..
wait ~ ANN" w
'TwO1,t bring the millennium sooner, dnputn when
Although teel an assurance that mines the scriu-
tural view. %-' "N-'p-
But the bessedest truths of the Bible. pvs ,sarnaa
to think don't lie W 'NAou
In the texts we hunt with candle to prove our doc
Du' tnem that come to us in sorrow, and when we're
30 II Caleb won't argue on free will u, lea va o,on.
the DEGREES. O-0
nU md ; OF Caeos, parson, seems rather misty
wish II it comes convenient you'd change word
1t don't quite stand to reason and for oosns, ,n,t
cler ~ " so'p0i 10"
mat folks live better in Heaven for hayin' aarreled
we no such expectation. Why, par.on II that is so.
IRE. nave worked 30 faithful to recon lie
hoia another opinion, and hold 1t straight and
If we can't be peaceable here VIC won,t ;. .oo.,,.
there. Wv WIN 10 pe"'o"oio
nut tnere's the request he made. you know it, par
BEN daid under the NAPLES that his own hand set
anu me 10 be laid beside him, when my time comes
n stren m.don't mind me; but twas that on.
Anu now mat some scales, think, have fallen
And things brought so to n cri,is bo M ,,a mn ,.,
more wise, ~ ~ ~ "o'n
"hy' Oaeb Gays, and go say, till the Lord part
wen love each other bet ter, and try our best to
agree. ~ ~ oS'' "