The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-08-08
Betsey Destroys the Paper.
SEQUEL TO "BErsEY AND ARE our."
BY THE REV. PETROLEUM v. sAsBY.


I've brought back the paper, lawyer, and fetched
the parson here,
To see that things are regular settled up fair and
clear;
For I've been talking with Caleb, and Caleb has
talked with me,
And the mount of it is we're minded to try once
more to agree.
SO came here on business--only word to say,
(Caleb is stalking pea vines and couldn't come to-
day)
Just to tell you parson how that we've changed
our mind
So I'll tear up the paper lawyer; you see it wasn't
signed.
Aud now if parson is ready, I'll walk with him
toward home;
want to thank him for some things; twas kind
of him to come,
lie showed the Christian spirit stood by us firm
and true;
We mighnt have changed our minds, squire, il
he'd been lawyer, too.
Therc--IIow good the sun feels, and the grass and
blowin' trees:
Something about them lawyers makes me feel fit
to Freeze
I wasn't bound to state particulars to that man,
But it's right you should know, parson, about our
change of plan.
We'd been some days a-waverin' little, Caleb
and me-
And wished the hateful paper at the bottom ol
the sea-
But guess twas the prayer last evening, and the
few words you said,
/ That thawed tho ice between us, and brought
things to a head.
You see, when we came to division, there wa
things that wouldn't divide;
There was our tweve-year old baby, she couldn'
bo eotisHad
To 60 with one or the other but just kept whim
perrin low,
'I'll stay with papa and mamma, and where ~,
go RI Co."
Then there was grandsres Bible-he died on ou
wedding day;
We couldn't halve the old Bible, and should i
go or stay?
The sheets that was Calebs mothers, her sample
on the WALL
With the sweet old names worked in-Tryphe ma
and Eunicc, and Paul.
1t began to be hard then, parson, but it grew
harder still,
Talkn of Caleb established down at Mcllenrys
Vile;
Three dollars a week twould cost him; mendr
sort of care,
And hoard at the Widow Meachams, wonai
that wears false hair.
.til we went on a talkin'; I agreed to knit som
socks,
And make dozen striped shirts, and II pair q
wa'mus frocks;
And he was to cut doorway from the kitchen t
the shed;
"Saye you climbing steps much, in frosty weather,
he said.
He brought me the pen at last felt a sinkin an
Looked as he did with the agur, in the spring O
Twas then you dropped in, parson; 'twasn't muc
that said
Little children, love one another" but the thin
was killed stone dead.
should like to make confession: not that II
going to say
The fault was all on my side, that was never m
way.
But it may be tue that women--thohow It's
cant see
Are trife more aggravatin' than men know ho
| to be.
Then, parson, the neghhors' melllin'-it WASH
pourin' oil;
And the church a.laborin' with us, 'twas wors
than wasted toll
E And I've thought, and so has Caleb though may
be we are wrong,
, II they'd kept to their own business, we shonl
have got along.
There was Deacon Amos purdy, good man.
we know,
But hadn't gift oflaborin' except with the scytl
/ and hoe;
Then II load came over in peach time from I'll
, Wilbur neighborhood.
"Season of prayer" they called it, didn't do a
atom Of good
I'll tell you about the heier--one of the kinde
A and the best
n That brother Ephraim gave me, the fall he move
out West;
= I'm free to own it red me that Caleb should thin
; and say
, She died of convulsions-a COW that MIXED fo,
s gallons day.
But needn't have spoke of turnips, needn't ha'
= been so cross,
And said hard things, and hinted as If twas
my loss;
And I'll take it all back, parson; that fire shar
ever break out
Though the COW was choked with turnip, ne
er had n doubt.
Then there are p'ints Of doctrine, and views of
future state,
I'm willing to stop discussin we can both afford
wait;
'Twont bring the millennium sooner, disputi
about when it's due,
Although ] feel an assurance that mines d
scriptural view.
But the blessedest truths Of the Bible, I've learn
to think, don't lie
In the texts we hunt with candle to prove u
doctrines by,
But them that come 10 us in sorrow, and VIII
we're our knees
so if Caleb won't argue ON iree-will. I'll lea
alone the DEGREES.
- One notion of Calebs, parson, seems rather mi,
or and dim
N. ] wish, il it comes convenient, you'd chang,
* word with him
- II don't quite stand to reason and for gospel
,e isn't clear,
M ~ That folks love better in heaven for having qu
- relied here.
~ I've no such expectation; why, parson, il Il
is so,
- You needn't have worked so faithful to reconc
IL folks below
ne | hold another opinion, aud hold it straight Il
Or square,
b, If We can't be peaceable here, We won't be pea
able there,
re But there's the request he made, you know
10 parson, about
or Bcn laid under the naples that his own ha
30 set out
0ae And me to be laid beside him when my Ii
M comes to 90,
at A. ir-as if--don't mind me- but twas that
St. strung me
And now that some scales, as We think, have
len from our eyes
p And things brought so clearly out Ia make
~ both more wise,
Why, Caleb says, and so say till the Lord pi
him and me,
ol Wen love each other better, and try our hes
e. agree.
Tor
Tea CHING Through the Tunnel.