Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-12-27


nudgng each other, and Sam could restrain
himself no longer.
"Why, that's his wife," pointing to young
Goliath from Missouri and her dad and
MANS living in the old shanty down on
the Flat I'll be derned If they didn't give
me the wust scare had yet-.thought they
was Injens-shore?"
"Aud how old are your 1 asked the
girl.
"Almost tneen," was the answer; and,
when the men withdrew, she told me about
the rest of her family, whom would prob
ably see along the road.
A coarse cotton gown made with yoke
about an inch and a half in depth, was
drawn up close around her neck, and hung
| loosely about her slender, immature forni
her naked feet were thrust into coarse boots,
and a large check apron completed her COS
tune. But there was shy, daisy-lit .
grace about her, that made one forget ,.he
dress, and see only the dove-like.esos -
the half-pensive smile on her face. Her
husband treated her in all things like a
child, and she oboyed him without MUIR
muir or a question. When we left, he told
us that we would find Sis's aunt at Ken
yon's Station and charged us TO say that
| Sis was well, and not the least bit home
sick.
We made Kenyon's station early in the
day-Sam and Phil greatly enjoying the
prospect of seeing another white woman.
She appeared on the threshold, a brawny,
coarse-handed woman of about forty, tidy
looking, in spite of her bare feet and the
short pipe in her mouth. BY her side ap-
peared a block headed girl of twelve, with
eyes agog, and a mouth open, at the strange
apparition of civilized looking white wo-
man. The husband stood beside the am
bulance-six feet and half in his cow-hide
boots-and with good-humored smile on
his leathery face. The house, like that at
Burke's Station, was adobe but there was
an air of homely comfort about it, inside
aud out, cheerful and inviting.
Aunt Polly was an excellent housekeeper
as viewed from Texan standpoint-and,
after she had in the most ndiUe manner sat
isfied her curiosity in regard to my looks
and general makeup, she commenced prep
arations for dinner. Sarah Eliza Jane
sole daughter of the house and race-sit-
ting in low, home made chair stared
steadily, till she had comprehended that
the bils ot oraid ana lace IN my cap were
TO be Manufactured INTO coilar' slmlIar 'o
the one | wore. When she learned that
the collar was TO be for her, she ran out
shouting her pleasure to her mother. The
mothers delight was as frank and nearly as
| 4 arn
the daughters, ana all al once the secre'
leaked out that the family was IN possess
ION OF hne American cow never speah
dlsparagIhgly 10 me ol flkes anu leNauS
1t has been my experience that the ieas
Kindness SHOWN them is returned leniold
and the smallest advance OF irlendilness Il
met by them nan way "hen d'nher was
placed on the tabie, there came with II Inc
most deilclous butter had eaten Tor many
Gays, anu cup o' the sweetest buttefmilk
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