St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-10-24

cry sense of the word. | never spread
that old wretched tarpaulin under me
and squatted on that horrible prairie,
finding before me the same pork and
tough yellow dough, hard beef, and
black coffee, but simultaneously that
glad, sweet vision of home trcmbed
before my aching eyes. | saw the dear
old front basement, with its glowing
fire in the CRATE, the great oleandeI
bush i'll the corner all in bloom, and the
canaries singing away in the sunshine :
the long table glittering with snowy
damask and well FURNISHED britannia
ware, and the quaint, old fashioned
china, plate after plate heaped mp with
delicacIes too delicious to dwell upou.
At the head of the table dear papa. who
bore SO nobly the grand old name of
gentleman, and opposite him, in her
afternoon black silk and lovely India
muslin cap, her slim, delicate hands
busy with that delicious golden coffee,
my dearest, best mamma: and all
around the table scrambled the boys,
while, like the skeleton at the feast.
there sat Kitty Malcolm's empty chair
and she, poor child, sitting out in the
damp, cold, snaky prairie,
The dear desperate little woman. no
wonder she wasn't much afraid of IL
pistol
We got to the city at last-it don't
matter what city. | won't injure it or
its inhabitants by this sad retrospect
Unless they are greatly changed. they
are quite wretched enough already. We
got to what they called II city. A few
sheds loosely thrown together. so that
A lta.s frnt Il t,,t th.,.
have Il few nails to hang clothes on.
and Il screen by way of partition, the
fainteSt pcrccptible signs of il human
habitation beginning to dawn upon
these boards, they can Immediately he
battered to pieces and put into wagons
| again, and cartcd "out West"
Never could these unhappy creatures
cursed with 1.-THE spirit of enterprise"
find rest for the sole of their foot. There
was always some FL Dorado arther on.
beckOning them with ghastly pertinacity
to an llluslve paradise that went 10y
the name of West | always thought
the whole thing was Il fearful emhodi-
mcnt of the Wandering jew. We be
came part and parcel with this unlIap-
py community. 1t would take many
qrIircs of paper and many talented
scribes to depict the trials that filled
every hour in the day, the petty tor
-mcnts that edged into the marrow of
ones bones, taking the life and sub
stance out of them.
When think of that wrctched thing
they called Il street" with its Strag-
CLING rows of dilapidatcd sheds ON eli
thcr side, great patches of country
stretching between. swept by fierce
hurricanes, scathed 10y icy froStS. scared
by burning heat, dcVoured hy an i'm
placable mud, haunted through the
deSolatc night 10y grim gaunt Indian
phantomS riding wildly and wcIdly
one after the other. always with terrible
precision keeping that grim order i'll
the procession, causing the blood. that
had barely been saved from CONCEAL
ing by cold, to curdlc in ones veins
from fright. and numbering the few
snatchcS of sleep VouchSafrd from 9TH
er horrors think upon all these
| can only look upon the ridiculous
tales hear about that region now as
absurd t;incieS of diseased brains.
After bad been there three Years
looked for the first time into Il looking
glass Cit WIS just before my little bless
ed darling came into the world. and
Charley did his best. poor fellow. t."
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when suddenly heard llght i""tstrp,;
the string was pulled gently, the latch
Went up, and there entered the most
pltlable looking bundle of woe 1t was
possible to conceive. AT first thought