Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-03

groaned he. els there other important
remarks that | must make ?"
ssNone. These are the reglars and
will anser. But don't be cast down my
friend. 1t IL only for mint, and after
you hey SIGH things a few times you
won't motifs it. Be Nv good cheer"
The night came. The school-house
wuz illoominatid-the tables wuz orna-
mented with flowers; the Ames were
grouped, the clergyman offered up his
little prayer, and the eatin wendell. At
its concloosin the Doctor rose, and adj
dressin the great and good Ames, re-
marked that his friends and neighbors
he'd met that they mite extend to him
the hand Nv of welcome-that they met
ez friends and neighbors, to show him
that they he'd the most perfect con-
fidence in his honesty and integrity,
and that while wicked men he'd en-
deavered to blast his fair name, North
Easton he'd alluz looked upon him ez an
honest man, witch wuz the noblest work
Nv God-(" Hear hear!" from the
Superintendent Nv the east shop, and
three cheers proposed by the second
book-keeper in the factory.) But ez
there wuz others WITCH he'd more f1ooency
present, he wood close by proposing ez
a sentiment, "Hon. Cakes Ames, like
gold from the crocodile, he ez passed
the fiery ordeal, and comes out purer
and brighter than ever"
The Doctor sat down the most de-
pressed man | ever saw. But he he'd
done all tibet we expected Nv him. He
speech, ez he spoke it, didn't vary
OF 1lTy C1tnc IusaI oil
been printed the day afore the banquet
for the press.
Our guest replied, thankin them for
the spontaneous triboot, witch wuZ the
more gratifyin becoz it wuz spontaneous
and unsought. He wuz strong in the
consciousness NV rectitood True, he
he'd sOuld stock to members NV Congress
for less than it wuz worth, but wuz that
bribery? He trusted his vindicashen to
his friends and neighbors.
Other speeches wuz made. The de-
famers Nv the great and good man were
denounced ez perjured villains, and the
building Nv all the public works NV the
country from the Erie canal to date,
were ascribed to his ability, by the en-
thusiastic agents NV the factory So
complimentary were these speeches that
l, myself, got to feelin that in the arti-
Giles NV Roman integrity and truth and
SIGH, the late G. Washington wuz a thief
beside Mr.. Ames. One enthusiastic
man, the principal of Mr. Ames' school,
read a poem NV his own, in which he
he'd Mr.. Ames bein crowned with lau-
rels and fucher ages doing homage to
him, which WuZ an eXceedin wretched
offer for a man on so small a salary.
But he knew how to make his situation
permanent.
AT II a. M, this spontaneous recep-
shun wuZ over. The servants NV the
great and good Ames carefully gathered
up the dishes and spoons and SIGH and
took EN- back. to the Ames manshm
the fragments wuZ collected in large
baskets for the great and good mans pig
and pOultry-f0r the great man is thrift
ty, and wont waste nOthin-he distri
buted the flowers among the ladies, and
North EastOn retired to its virchuOous
couch The reScpshun wuZ success,
and it didn't cost the great Ames to eX-
coed $500, including my charges for ar
ranging it.
| think seriously of movin to North
Easton. | kin make better speech
than the doctor-a better prayer than the
minister, and kin sling better poem
than the school master. But if | shood
hey many SIGH occashens for SIGH servi-
ces, I shood want better pay than any
Nv EN- git I kin afford to risk that,
however. The great and good Ames
knows talent, and know the great and
good Ames, l shell pitch my tent in
North Easton if possible.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
(Which wuz Postmaster