Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-09-20

way beyond tho busy town white floors,
vast rooms open to the ROOF, with here and
tnere In wide perspective a chair, a table,
hower-wreathed niche for the Virgin. Such
was my new home.
Tbough apart from the town, IL was not
Isolated. Past its windows, whose jalousies
only veiled, but did not hide, the outer
world, drifted daily the characteristic sights
OF tropic town. Overladen mules and
sleepy Spanish ponies, bearing panniers OF
iruit-oranges, bananas, mammee-apples,
ana Know not what Of shining and name
less things moved leisurely down TO the
quay bestrode by sulen slaves, their dark
faccs set off by now and then a scarlet vest
or great overshadowing "sombrero !" or
lazy, hali-naked native loitered by with q
picturesque load of dried plantain leaves
for matching his mountain hut, where he
lived free, Independent, and, in his express
sive phrase, "solemnly poor"
My landlady, the Sonora Marie, was a
tteat. pbotl cry, Kind -hoastod woman, u
Widow with brood of olive-skinned, wild
eyed little ones 10 look after. For them
she was very ambitious; for their sakes
she made the dainty "pates'' Of guava and
cocoa-npt which ber sloyo Tie, ,ooL dov,,
to market. poisinr them on her head ofror
the ancient fashion, which is the only fash
ion of things In Porto Rico; for their sakes
she rented The pleasant rooms in ber casa
IN ovbo,nsoo,,,r ,,,o Ill. o,,1 -,
her from sea and for their sokes M donht
had she boen nm American woman sha
would have set herself to activo indns,ry
and labored .'dilirentlv with ber hands :,
As IL was. she cared for theo, and rIorrod
for tbem oner ber own sor, ond Io,.od
them hugely. She listened delighted while
they clustered around me. cbottering tboir
dainty lingo. wandering over NV Iigbt
locks, my foreign dress. and coaxirg mo
with a winning witcberv IN t,It ,o ,ho,, 4,
English.
sometimes Tho c,ntai, dronnod T., ,,
ne, bo vss ,aL;no l., o,r,., g, -
beads ~ sroor 80, -, -. "os
III. I'll -, '0"' y"
Son,o,in,as 10 -. 49,. ~. D. '''o "'so
sor s,so,, '"1 ou' Do'oio sunrise
-, -..,.s,- 9' '''iio' VIC ioue
,,on '.,",, " o1",o u's''n' sugar P.anta-
a,o.,',. 9o o'o""uei hiu ma
tiua ,lona ss-,e,,",' "v NV. was get
,,as -, e.. 80, ~ "e s''u '"o se"ora
-" - w." "'i ne' h"se's' 0yes' anu
'oS'. nv" "s'i SUI ''Aeo me- NO" goiden
y s1' was, "n" INV got OH win tne
n,as "' ''Ne W iiEe l" rorto
o,,
"he' u ""speahaoiy Inc req SOIL,
."' "'','' 'ne S"'ss'"s roaus' inc cocoa
'"o' '"'' '"in'neys ioo'"'hs against the
sny was "i oeau'iui-eVeh tnis lazy
'"e '''' ''eu "se'' "'nout ehort, ana
seen'eu 10 put 10 snan'e .he pusy' undlgni-
"eu s''a",o'e we nau calleu existence.
iote a'i' cap'a'h eAc'aimeu.
"e'b s''u 'ne caP'aif' iaugning, I'VE
'ius' NUM- up our ensiueer ana see what
0an oe uo"o aoo". II.
Senora marie had new idea.
g ,a. "oo "ou"'-
60, u, o CT - IS "c'e
-, ~, 81 H.. ~"
mo l., ,,, ,,.,,, .-i,'a VIZ"
mpoho IN eot and IN ,voar. ,yiu ,,i.o,
10 ,,,, ,riord. Tho,, h.oior5a. ,,a
ta,io,.s nIo,t, s,,yo, Sho sh,lI ,oa,,, H..
oh;l,o, ,,,l ho Lar,,, Ub ,,,,,., -,
,oror oo,i,ar9,, ''
senior canitan said nothing for soma ,;r,o
Ho xvired his Grebo,d viii HE rod l,a,,
dana be InoLod oyor ot ma viii = soarat
;,,. ,.i,o. L.. -. rv,,-
rose I, hi, ,hrrn, c,sbion ..S,,o I'll, a.
worse ,, bo ,aid and hotooL bin,soIc 10 h;s
chin
Tho hot doy rro,, bo,,or aud bo,,o :,
e,n,od 70 n o,o,o. :, diod ,,;,h r,arr,o',,a
hurr,,c behipd tho hills ,bo s,ddo, h,ool,
mos or ,ron;o nio,,, oon,o on h,,t ho A.,
no, oor,o ali,
IIav va,yal,a Iono ,ha, ,,;,ht us,on,n
tho wash ~ tho snrr -, ,ho d;s,or, shoro
ona hoor;r,, ,ho Iono,,, .,, 80 49, - '
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% 20. -. :.
ho - ,ro,,, ,,,,,;,,au Iii, aii IL. .,'t.,'
ord I,vo IN ,,is Y,ronoo Iond coro,or,
a;, ,a,,.,. - =, O.. ,,,
- a;.io, po,I. -, -,
T., ~, a,,o,, ,,,,.,o aas,s,.
po.,,ans Ia,a,,,a ora,on,,,, anoon, i,a,,a",
,',s .s,,~aaa,a.,,s,s, ~ A. s.l,~,
l. Lindnass :, n,inh, No, nau bin, - go
mo haol, ,,a ,rh,, ,1,a -, - h..;.
10, 10 ,,o ,orrou, 49,, IL. ,,o -
to tbe n, arrow Iife or nennrvo uere T was
rial, or mich, ho. oyon ,Lo ,,ooros, horo
ho, h,s ,,,a',,.,., H., w., -, 80. -,
,na
Va, ,sono,h,,i, ohoa a.,uo,h.,
,ba, ,ho nood .I;n ,r,,, i,s ,,d, oa,Ia ,,s
kindly con,ain and crew wov,d a., ont
fron, mo saiIina ,hronah tha ,,is,. y, 49,
great ocean and leave mo drircd ,monc
,ho N, I'm. and ooooas ,or,,,,osa ,'',,a
ed thing no, worth ,ar,no ho,,o
T tried to be aensitIo 20 ioor, ,ho ,oo,,or
in the face and To rejoice ,bot foto hod nro.
vided for me 60 uneynoc,odIv And ,rho,,
day afler day passed I began to ,hint that
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