Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-07
The LandIad,,s Complaint.

There nobody knows what woman that
has the charge Of a family goes through, bat
God Almighty that made her. I've knowed
what it was 10 lave wOmen-bOarders that
find fault-there's some of EN- would quar-
rel with me and everybody al my table they
would quarrel with the Angel Gabriel if he
lived in the house with EN-. and scold at
him and tell him he WIS always dropping
his feathers round, if they couldn't find any
thing else % bring up against him. But
I've done my best for them that | loved. and
for them that was under my roof My hus-
band and my children was well cared for
when they lived. and he and them little ones
that buried has white marble head-stones
and ioCt-stonrs. and an non fence round the
lot. and place left Cor me twixt him and
them Some has always been good 10 me,
some has made il little of Il strain to me
to &c; along. When womau'- back aches
with oyerwoIkmc herself to keep her house
in shape and dozen mouths are opening at
her three times day. ike them little Young
birds ;lat split their heads open 50 You can
a most see INTO their empty stomachs, and
one wants this and another wants that. and
provisions j. dear and rent Is high, and no.
body IL look to.-then 4 sharp word cuts.
tell you. and hard look goes right to your
heart. I've seen a boarder make a face at
what set before him. when tried to suit
him jest as well as knew how, and haven t
cared To eat a thing myself all the rest Of
that day. and I've laid awake without a
wink Of sleep all night. And then when
you come down the next morning all the
boarder~ stare at you and wonder what makes
YOU low-Spirited. and why you don't look as
happy and talk as cheerful as one of them
rich ladies that has dinner-parties. where
they ye nothing 10 do bat give a few orders
and somebody comes and COOKS their dinner
and somebody else comes and put flowers on
the table. and lot of men dressed up like
ministers come and wan on everybody, as at
tentive as undertakes alta funeral. Ii isn't
but 4 little while longer that we are going to
lie together, and | want TO say to You, gen
tlemen, Is | mean to say to the Others. and
a. | have said to our two ladies, that | feel
more obligated TO YOU for the way You We
treated me than know very well how 10 put
into words. BoarderS sometimes expect too
much Of the ladies that provides for them
Some days the meals are better than other
DAYS; it can't help being 50. Sometimes
lHt iIuNL>lult-AidThtl i-il We'll ~upIlleu,
sometimes the fire in the cooking-stoye doesn't
burn 50 well a. it does other DAYS. some
times the cook isn't 50 lucky As she might be-
And there Is bOarder- who i always laying
in wait for the days when the meals Is not
quite 50 good a they commonly be, to pick
quarrel with the one that Is irving to serve
them 50 a they shall be satisfied But You We
all been good and kind to me suppose I'm
not quite 80 Spry and quick-sighted as was
a dozen years ago, when my boarder wrote
that first book - many have asked me about
But now I'm going to stop taking boarders
don't believe Won II think much about what
didn't do.-because | couldn't. but re
member that at any rate | tried honestly to
serve You. hope God will bless all that sat
At my table, old and Young, rich and poor,
married and single. and single that hopes
soon TO be married. Ny husband that's dead
and gone always believed that we all will
get TO heaven sooner or later.-and sence
I've grown older and buried 50 many that
I've loved I've come to feel that perhaps |
should meet all Of them that I've known
here-or at least As many of EN- as | wanted
ton better world. And, though | don't
calculate there i any clearinghouse in
heaven. hope | shall sometime or other
meet them that has set round my table one
year after another, all together, where there
is no tault-fnding with the food and no oc-
casion for it,-and il | do meet them and
yoa theIe,--or anywhere. If there is any
thing can do for you.-Poef at The Break-
fds, T0Jic