Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-05-28
For the Enung,
Aunt Carries Story.

YishlY. "lt ! only hauu any lcct
wouldn't have to run errands all the time
Here I've got to 90 to the store for the third
time to-day, and want to play with my
new croquct set almost wish | hadn't
any feet"
allow would you play croquet if you
hadn't any feet2' asked her aunt Carrie,
who was sitting by the window, sewing up.
on dress for Lottie.
"Well, 1 mean wish | didu't have to
work all the time said Lottio, looking a
little ashamed
Yes said her aunt, IL guess that was
what you meant TO have said, but do not
think YOU have TO work very hard | am
sorry you are not willing to help your
mamma all you can. II you were depriy-
ed Of your feet fear your life would be a
sad one Now 10 you will run down to the
store, Ike good girl, when You come
back l will tell yol about boy who lost
both Of his feet
"Oh, wasn't that funny said Lottie
chow did he lose them 2'
THAT you will find out when you roiurn
from the store, replied her aunt. Finding
that she could hear 20 story until her work
was done, Lotlie ran for her hat and very
soon her aunt heard her feet pat, pot, pat
ting along the sidewalk.
She returned in a very short time, and
delivering the articles for which she had
been sent 90 her mother, she went to call
her brother Fred aud they we're soon seat
ed by their aunt, eager for the promised
story.
"last summer" said aunt Carrie, IL
visited at your uncle Edgors, away up in
the northern part Of Vermont. One day
when he and /, with little Oracle, "ior to
d'yye, las she said when he let her drive
up the hill-were passing through piece
Of woods not fat from the Canada line, we
saw a queerlooking person going along the
road before us, whistliug cheerly, and
striking at the bushes by the roadside with
the sticks which he held in his hand
Look look, auntie said Oracle, ne toes
all turned round hind | looked, and
sure enough, there was the boy, going be-
fore Us, but the toes Of bis big cowhide
boots we're turned towards Us. What
makes him's toes all turned round hind,
papa p said Gracie Oh Jack Frost bit
bis toes of, replied her father 'D-i-d p
said she. Mus have pity big mouf, should
think. We laughed q little at ber idea,
but not very loud, for we were close to the
poor unfortunate, and we were afraid he
would think we were laughing at him. 1t
was a few days after the fourth Of July,
and your uncle said to the boy, Good
morning johnny, how did you enjoy the
fourthp O, sir, he replied, earnestly, i
enjoyed it FIRST rate How did yoa enjoy
IitP Uncle Edgar replied that he enjoyed
the day very wclli but after we were out
Of Johnuie's bearing, he said, | havn't
an idea that | enjoyed the day half as
well as that poor boy who walked three
miles to the next village, upon his knees
| often see him there doing errands for his
mother, aud he always seems just 50 cheer.
full"
Now Lottie" said Aunt Carrie. DC
you wish you had three miles to go to the
store, instead of few steps ? and had
to 60 upon yotr knees, in place of youl
feet 2
No Auntie, said Lotiie, " am glaC
r have feet won't fret any more wher
mamma asks me to do errands."
That's right, Lottie, for it is very wrong
to be peeyish when mamma asks you to Dc
b anything And now | will tell you how
= this poor Johnnie Brown came to be with
. out feet He lived with his father au,
mother in little log house, away up ther
in the woods and the house was very oil,
= and poor the wind blew in through tn
= cracks in the sides and roof, so that in win
ter it was very cold. Mr. Brown wa
quite old, and bad not much energy to work
or | think he would have fixed up his house
or bull, a new one but as it was, ever.
D cold wiuter found them in that poor, oil
D house, which grew little worse, and look
r ed little more like tumbliug down ever
a. year
Then there came a winter, colder tina
d all the rest they could not do much bu
It sit and shiyer over the fire. There was bu
one room in the house, aud at night John
uie bad 10 sleep in the little loft over thi
room, which he reached by some ricket
stairs upon the outside of the house. Ther
u he used to shiver and shiyer, all the nigh
r long
2 One morning after9 bitter, cold night,
Y gentleman who was acquainted with the fam
lily, was passing the house, and not seein
any stir, he thought he would 60 in and Sc
if they were sick.
l. lie tried the door and found it fastened bu
i the house was so riekety that it soon yelc
ed, and he went in. He found old Mr.. an
{ Mrs Brown stupiied with the cold hare
able to stir but he built good fr'
and they soon got warmed up, and foun
u that Jack Frost had only bitten their fiji
~ gers little. But poor Johnnie was not S
g fortunate. When the gentleman went int
50 the loft for him, he found him nearly dea,
u Cruel Jack had not only bitten his finger
'e ears and nose, but his feet and limbs wei
s. frozen to bis knees.
" They brought him down stairs, and wei
Us for physician, who found it necessary
on amputatc his limbs. He bore the oper
rs tion with great deal of patience, though
y must have been terribly painful. And no
II he has to trudge around with boots upon h
" knees, and they have to be turned 'rour
hind as Gracio said, because, you kno'
he cannot lift up his knees as he would h
of feet so he has to drag them along, boo
y and all
u, The next summer, the neighbors came t
ei gother and rolled up log house for NJ
ne Brown, and the ladies gave them quilt
K and comfortables; so now Jack Frost cou
&c not bite Johnnie's toes if he had any to
IN bitten, Now this is a true story does
III teach you anything ?"
4" That We must not be lazy" said Ere
" If Mr. Brown had been smart enough
ga have fixed up his house, Johnnie would u
pc have lost his feet"
2, p" That we must be willing to help mai
he ma, said Lottie. /" For Johnnie would
nd three miles to do an errand for his MANN
ng though he had no feet"
he {" That is right" said Aunt Carrie
nd " And Johnnie's patience shows us that
can be cheerful, even if we have trials. y
H0uSehold
for
~ is The Gospel is larger than the unio
Y cd soul. No man is so low that he may |
Jo -"' grasp the meaning of its essential truth
ny and mona sn evalted in intall lioence that