Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-12-23
BAREFOOT.

How we all played together the girls and the boys
And had houses and workshops and stores.
Rag babies and 'earthens" and just much noise
As our voices could make out of doors
How we loved through the pastures and woodland to
roam,
To gather bright moses and flowers!
We thought then as now, there 'no place like
home,''
And no home delightful as
And don't you remember the pleasant school road,
And the school house sunny in june
With the lessons learned and the 'mark" that we
'toed"-
And how we played 'pizen' at noon?
Our sun-bonnets, crumpled, hung over necks, !
The summer-wind played with our hair;
While the paid our faces the warmest respects,
And kissed our white toes that went bare.
How climbed the steep hilsides nimble goats
And skipped over the lodges in glee;
We mimicked the woodlark and whippoorwilPs notes,
And sung with the chick-a-dee-dee
We waded the brook when the water was low,
And shouted to make the woods ring.
Or played on its banks in the summers soft glow,
Light-hearted as birds the wing.
You remember the pond where the geese used to swim
How we called it the so wide
And in the old hat that was minus the brim
We sailed our rag dolls on its tide?
And when they had crused all the wide through
And outdone both Magellan and Cook,
We drew them all home in an old ragged shoe,
And called it coach-rde they took
How danced in the mud with our bare naked feet
And played twas the Dutch way to chum
We made us mud biscuits and plum cakes so sweet,
Without any cookbook to learn;
How pitied the cheren whose stockings and shoes
| Forbade them to share in fun!
While we stirred up our puddiugs, and pastries and
| stews,
! And then left them to cook in the sun.
Youths Companion.
Big walnut crop in California.
Another earthquake at Valparaiso.
DR.. Livingstone is sixty years old.
New gold mines discovered in Chilli.
Murder on the high C's-Some efforts
in our churches
Troy editors call fellow who steals
from a parson, "sacreligious thief
Secretary Boutwell, has sister who is
a sculptures and she is going to Rome.
Ann Arbor, Mich, pumps water up
hill in order to let it flow back into the
town.
Epizootic fatality is great IN Cincin-
natl Over five hundred horses have
died thereof
An inexperienced Lowell housekeeper
went out to buy a pinking iron to scol-
lop oysters with.
The press of Missouri calls for law
awarding death as the punishment for
placing distractions on railroad tracks.
An amiable Wisconsin Indian emptied
a box of rattlesnakes on the bed of a
man who had offended him.
Senator Sumner receives condemnation
everywhere for his attack upon our bat
tie flags.
Peter SAKE, brother of John G., is
driving cattle across the plains to San
Francisco.
Next year the present Parliament Of
Great Britain ceases to be, and gener.
al election follows
Josh Billings did not know that his
sayings were good enough to print, un.
| til he was forty-fve years old.
A Fort Wayne youth of twenty six
has sued a widow of forty for $4,000
because she trifed with his budding af
fectlons.
The young men of Elgin, ILL.,, are
going crazy over d minister there, whc
t is sweet sixteen, and as handsome cir
as you often see banging pulpit cush
! ion.
+ The Boston Pilot, which has twice
been burned out, says, "We are Jus
about tired of this phoenix business
We don't want to rise nobly from ou
:, ashes any more.
A man alta camp meeting boasted tina
e he had been married twenty-five years
] during which time he had never givcl
his wife q cross word or look H
u omitted to tell his hears that he dare,
I not.
Mary Smith has been arrested in Chi
cago for stealing two hundred pounds o
: railroad iron with which to buy her chill
e lren bread. She would have made
f good Spartan mother when they used tn
o fifty pound iron dollars.
: The government has taken up the sub
ject of those poor Italian emigrants tha
j. are being landed in New York at tn
/ rate of three or four ship loads montl
+ with no other prospect before them thai
q starvation or the almshouse.
A young woman in Virginia, feelin,
. sociably inclined toward neighbor tn
other side of fordable river, and ha1
l. ing no horse convenient, made the trans
" in safety and dryness, recently, by tal
f. ing two chairs, and nsing them as stills
n A barber in Titusville, Pa, while cu
ting the hair Of rural customer, ra
his shears against some hard substanc,
u which proved to be q MILESTONE Th
rs old man said he chad missed the whe
h stone ever since haying time last Jul,
~ and had looked all over ten acre lot fo
it, but now remembered sticking it u
over his ear
- A letter from Dallas, Texas, to tt
~ Houston Age. says that twelve Indian
OF cattle thieves were lately caught in OF
o, of the western counties and hung to
he limb of a tree, because there was I
limb of the law to plead for then
Before hanging their faces were scru
bed and eleven of the twelve did n,
= pan out as Indians-they being unpr
NJ tected orphans from Kansas, mostly.
- The Gitusville Press, chronicles tt
y following event with modest pride:- :
ad ''Titusville was not the birthplace of Il
US Father of his country but we ha
tv seen man residing here who slipped ,
on a muddy crossing. this afternoon ~