Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-30

The bargain was consummated with
promp'isude accordingly, and when Etam
Moueely came in to his MONDAY meal be
found his sbrewd better half rejoicing in
soul.
Il see him grin when he druv away
said Mrs NJ i reckon he will grin out
Of the other side of his mouth when he
finds what's in them feathers
what feathers2' saia Mr.. Mousely,
suddenly starting from a sort of brown
study.
If that amt Just like you, Elam,' said
Mrs. Nnusely, in An aggrieved tone OF
voice. You haiu't paid no attention to q
word I've said
And she repeated the tale of how she
had outwi ted Jethro TAFT 10 the morn
ing's trade.
You sold them PLIERS to a peddler !?
Numbered Elsm, his sun burnt face glow
ing into dull mahogany coler.
They was full of moth, 'abegan Mrs. NJ
and
MOTH echoed Elan. And what else
was that full of? Woman. what haze you
done? All my ten years savin's was
sewed up in them pliers
Mrs. Mousely's countenance fell.
'L4nd's sake alive, Elan! why di3n't
you tell me?'
Elam Mousely's face fell heavily into
bis hands.
I thought I'd found one place in the
world where you wouldn't come pryin
and peepin',' he moaned end now its
gone-sll gonev
Mrs Mouaely burst into tears OF ming
led modification and anger.
And it serves you right for not tellin
your wife you had money laid upH she
sobhed.
Was sbe altogether 10 the wrong?
Elsm started up, choking down a hoarse
excavation.
TIL find the sconndrelN he exclaimed
I'll find him before night, If have &c
tramp over half the country!
Vain boast Lock for the outgoing
and incoming of the wind-trace the hid
ing place of comics among the rookie, or
eagles in the mountain heights, but seek
rot to follow the sinuous footsteps of g
Yankee peddlar! Jethro TAFT certainly
had not assembled into the heavena. Meth
er was it likely that he had sunk into +
orevioe of the cart, but sure it was that
he had disappeared, and with BIN the
motA-eatea feather pillow which emhslm
cd the leather case containing Elan
| Mousely's NO hundred dollars.
The snow lay on the ground that win
ter. when Rachel Dorrancn, Mr.. Mouse
Tvs Younger sister, drove across thu ooun
try, with the reins in one hand and 6
baby supported in the hollow Of the 9th
err arm. Mrs. Monselv received her rath
u Il L., 10
81 thu family ideas when she married
Mark Dorr4nce the miller. instead of Har
riaon Grey the LAWYERS clerk. Bu'
Rachel came IN, fresh-faced and blooming
ss q rose.
sseems t, me- ssid Mra. MopseIy
you've got new cutter
Yes said Mrs. Dorranoe, uutieing her
habv's hood ribbona. aud smoothing it
fl ,esy hair, cit is new
And a fine grey horae.' said Mrs
Mous-ly, still eying the d4shing it'l'
equipage ont Of the window. Marx must
be doin' WELL
'OA,' said Mrs. Dorrance dimpling and
smiling. that was my Christm"s present
to Mark
'Eh 2 said Mira. Mouaely interrog. tive
".
I'll tell Won all about it. said Rachel
'Yon sea, Ia baen trying TO save up lit
tie money to furnish spare bed ; and ,
lin ped1ler came along with a pair h.
aid he would sell cheap for old rags
And don't YOU believe. after the rascal wa
ton miles away, I opened the pillows T,
put the f., tNars into new ticks and they
were full Of mo'hs!
Mercy upon "a = cried Mrs.. Lousely
elevatiug both her hands.
4 waa inss going TO hurn them went
on R4ohel. when I felt something fl II
and hard like a hook cover in the middle
of one and what should it he but case
containing two hundred dollars Well
Won may guess how surprised we were,
and how pleased. But Mark said j.
wouldn't he right II keep it, and 80 We
advertised it for a month in the paper
here Mrs Mouse'v gave a low groau 10
remember how Elsm had stopped the
COUNTRY paper nut OF ecOnomY-'but 10.
body came forward who could claim or
identify it, 80 Mark said findings wa.
keepinga. and gave it 10 ne, and | bought
the horse and cutter with il, and that Z
the way We como to he an fine
It's ours cried MIRA Mnusely hysteric.
ally, and then she told the tale of her bar
gain with Jethro Teit.
Rachel looked rather discomfjed.
well she hesitated, I suppose it
wouldn't he right to keep it, under AL the
oiroumst ,noes. S. If you'll give ne back
what paid the psd1ler, and the adver-
Using money
81 Mrs. Mousely bought back her fea-
Their pillows in the shape % a horse and
cutter E4m said that WIS better than
nothing Msrk Dorrsnce, who had a
sturdy originality of his own, said sit
served Eam's wife right. for trying TO
cheat a man who was bigger rascal than
she knew how TO be-
MS Mousaly declared 'eho would never
have anything to do with peddler again
and Rachel invested her sister-in-law' =
ransom money in pair of gorgeous
square pillows, and Was the best suited Of
tie party.
And Jetbro Tat, couqratulstinR him
self on how ekillfully he had got chem
moth.eaten old-pillers' off his hands, took
particularly good care to avoid for the
future the route thst lei past the house
of Mark Dorrance.