Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-02-02

""Tbere; you see how still he SETS SAYS
the parson to Huldy.
"'Huldy was most dyin for fear she
should laugh. I'm afraid he'll get up,
says she, when you do.
"'Oh, no he won't, says the parson, quite
confident; there, there says he, layin
his hands on him as If he was pronounc-
IN blessin. But when the parson riz up,
old Tom he riz up too, and began to march
over his eggs.
Stop, nowr said the parson; III
make him get down again hand me that
corn basket, we'll put that over him.
$50 he crooked old Toms legs aad got
him down again, and they put the corn
basket over him, and then they both stood
and waited
'Thatll do the thing, Huldy, said the
parson.
"'I don't know about it, says Hudy.
"oh, yes it will, child understand
says he.
- "'Just as he spoke the basket riz right
up and stood, and they could see old Toms
long legs.
"I'll make him stay down, confound
him., says the parson, for ye see parsons is
men, like the rest on us, and the doctor had
got his spunk up.
"You jist hold him minute and I'll get
something thatll make him stay, guess,
and out he went to the fence and brought in
a long, thin, flat stone, and laid it on Toms
back.
"Old Tom, he wlted down considerably
under this, and looked rally as if he was
gon' to give in. He staid still there a good
long spell, and the minister and Huldy lett
him there and came up to the house, but
they hadn't more than got in the door be-
fore they see old Tom hoppin' along, as
high steppin as ever, saying, talk talk
and gutter! quiterr and struttin' and
goblin as if he had come through the
Red sea and got the victory.
"Oh, my eggsH says Huldy, I'm afraid
he's smashed 'emv
"'And sure enough, there they was,
smashed fiat enough under the stone.
"'Tll have him killed." said the paison
I'VE won't have such a critter round
"'But the parson, he slept ont and then
didn't do it--hc only came out next Sun
day with tip top sermon on the original
cuss," that was pronounced on things in
gineral, when Adam fell, and showed how
everything was allowed TO 90 contrary ev-
er since. There was pig weed, and puslcy,
and Canada thistles, cut worms and bug
worms and canker worms, to say nothn'
of rattlesnakos-the doctor made it very
impressive and sort o. improvin, but HUI
dv, she told me goin' home, that she could
hardly keep from laughing two or threo
times in the sermon when she thought of
old Tom a standing up with the corn bas-
ket on his back.
"'Wal, next week, 1Tuldy, she just bor-
rowed the minister's horse and side saddle,
and rode over to South Parish to her aunt
Bascomes, widder Bascomes, you know,
that lives there by the trout brook, and got
a lot o turkey eggs o her and came back
| and set hen on 'em and said nothin', and
in good time there was as nice lot o tur-
key chicks rs ever ye see.
"Huldy never said a word to the minis
ter about his experiment, and he never
said word TO her, but he sort o KEEP more
TO his books and didn't take it on him to
advise so much.
"But not long after he took it into his
head that IIuldy ought to have a pig to be
fattn' with the buttermilk. Miss Piper
idge set him up to it, and jist then old Tom
Bigelow, out to Juniper hill, told him if
he'd call over he'd give him little pig.
80 he sent for man and tCld him to
build pig-pen right out by the well, and
have it all ready when he came home with
his pig.
"Hudy, she said she wished he might
cause in the dark, sometimes, body might
stumble into it, and the parson he told him
lie might do that.
"Wal, old Akin, the carpenter, he didn't
come till most the middle of the afternoon,
and then he sort o. idled so that he didn't
get up the wellcurb till sundown, and said
he'd come and do the pig-pen next day.
"Wal, after dark, parson Carryl, he driv
into the yard, full chizel, with his pig.
He'd tied up his mouth to keep him from
squeelin' and he was rather near-sghted
and so he ran and see what he thought
was the pig-pen-threw piggy over and
down he dropped into the water, and the
minister put out his horse and pranced of
into the house quite delighted.
"'TheIe, IIuldy, I've got you II nice lit
tie pig.
"'Dear me- says Hubby, where have
you put him?
"'Why, out there in the pig-pen, to be
sure.'
"'oh dear mer says IIuldy, that's the
well-curb-there ain't no pig-pen built,
says she.
"'Lordy massy" Us TIE parson, then
I've thrown the pig in the well !
"Wal, Huldy, she worked and worked,
and finally she fished piggy out in the
bucket, but he was dead as a door nail, and
she got him out o. the way, and didn't
say much, and the parson he took to a great
Hebrew book in his study, and says he,
'Huldy, | amt much in temporals.' HUI
dy says she kind a felt her heart 60 out to
him, and he was so sort O. meek and help
less, and learned, and says she, 'Wal, Par
son Carryl, don't trouble your head no
more about it 4; I'll see to things and sure
enough, a week after there was II nice pen,
all ship-shape, and two little white pigs
that Huldy bought with the money for the
butter she sold at the store.
"'Wal, Huldy, says the parson, you are
n most amaZln' child-you don't say moth
in, but you do more than most folks. -
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