Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-06-30
poetry,
From the T6ieao Blade.
Betsey Destroys the Paper.
sEQUEL TO "BETsEY AND l ARE0Ur.


SEQUEL TO "BETsEY AND AREOUT."
ny HELEN BARRON BosrwIcK
I've brought back the paper lawyer and fetched the
parson here
To see that things are regular settled up fair. and
Cleur
For I've been talking with Caleb, and Caleb has
And the mount OF il is we're minded to try once
more to agree.
So came here on the business-only word to say
Caleb is stalking pea. vines, and couldn't come to-
Just to tell you aud parson how that we've changed
So ri tear up the paper lawyer, you it wasn't
signed
And now if parson is ready. III walk with him tow
ard home;
want TO thank him for some things twas kind of
He's showed Christian spirit stood by firm and
true, ,,, =,
been lawyer too.
Therel How good the feels and the grass and
BLOWN trees
Something about them lawyers makes me ft to freeze
| wasn't hound TO state particulars TO that man.
But its right you should know, parson, about our
change OF plan.
We'd been some days waverin' little. Caleb and
And wished the hateful paper was at the bottom of
the sea-
But guess twas the prayer last evening, and the
That thawed The ice between u.s. and brought things
TO a head.
You see when we cameto division there was things
that wouldn't divide l
There was our tweve-year-old baby she couldn't be
To go with one or the other, but just kept whmper
I'm stay with papa and mamma and where they go
III g0.'
Then there was Grandsires Bible he died on our
We couldn't naive the old Bible and should it go or
The sheets that was caIeb's mothers her sampler
With the sweet old names worked in-Tryphenia,
and Eunice. and Paul.
1t began to be hard then, but it grew harder
Talking Of Caleb established down at McHenrys-
Three dollars week 'twould cost him, mendin'
And board boa at the Widow Meaehams, woman that
wears false hair.
Still we went on a talkin'i agreed to knit some
And make a dozen striped shirts. and pair of wa
And he was to cut doorway from the kitchen to the
shed
Save you climbing steps much in frosty weather,
he said.
He brought me the pen at last-I felt sinkin' and
Looked as he did with the agur, in the Spring o.
Twas then you dropped in. parson; 'twan't much
that was said
Little chliulen love one anOtDer put the lulns
was killed stone dead.
should like to make confession not that I'm goinl
The fault was all on my side that never was my way
But it may be true that woman, tho how tits can
Are a triae more aggravatin than men know how t.
be.
Then. parson theneighbors' meddlin' it wasn't pour
And the church laborin with us, twas worse thar
And I've thought and SO has Caleb, though maybe
If they'd kept to their own business. we should hav
got along
I'll tell you about the heifer, of the kindest an'
That brother EphIiam gave me. the fall bel moves
I'm free to own it riea me- that Caleb should thinl
She died ofconvulsions, COW that MIXED four gal
Ions a day.
But needn't have spoke of turnips. needn't hav
And SAID hard things, and hinted as if twas all m!
And iii take it all back parsou, that fire shant eve
Though the cow was choked with turnip. neye
/ mad q uoubt.
Then there pints of doctrine, and views of fu
I'm willing to stop discussin-we can both afford t
'Twon't bring the millennium sooner, disputin whe
Although feel an assurance that mines the Script
ural view.
But the blessedest truths of the Bible. I've learne
to thin don't lie.
In the texts we hunt with candle to prove our doc
/ tTlues by.
But them that come to US in sorrow, and when we'r
| on our kuees-
So if Caleb won't argue on free-will I'll leave alon
| the DEGREES.
One notion ofCalebs, parson. rather misty an
dim
/ wish il it comes convenient you change wor
with him
It don't quite stand to reason. and fgr gospel ism
clear,
That folks live better in Heaven for hayin' quarrel
ed here.
I've no such expectation Why parson. that is s,
Ou needn't have worked faithful to reconcile folk
below
hold another opinion and hold it straight an
five can't be peaceble here we won't be peacebl
| there.
But there's the request he made, you know it, PAL
| son, about
Bein' laid under the naples that his own hand Sc
/ out,
And me to be laid beside him. when my time come
As if-as if-don't mind me- but twas that onstrun
So
And now that some scales, we think, have falle
from our eyes.
Aud things brought to a crisis have made us bot
! more wise,
Why Caleb says and l say, till the Lord part hiI
and me.
Well love each other better and try our bestto