Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-08
Parallel Stories.

"Suppose you were in an invested town,
threatened with starvation, how would you
supply yourself with provisions p asked the
examiners at Brienne of young student.
- From the enemy" was the prompt reply.
The embryo Emperor was thought to have
said good thing; but the happy hit might
have been due to ready recollection rather
| than ready wit, for it is upon record that
one of Suvorof's sergeants was promoted
by giving exactly the same answer to the
same question propounded by his rough chlet
Paul l. of Russia no doubt believed ne was
acting very originally when, disgusted with
the bad riding of an officer at review, he
commanded the maladroit man to resign his
commission and retire to his estate and
being told he had no estate to retire to,
| replied ''Give him one, then ! The
eccentric Gar would have been surprised to
learn that his novel mode of enforcing
sentence had been anticipated by a player.
| Yet so it was. The hero of the Duncsdd,
intrusted with the delivery of stage
message, acquitted himself 80 awkwardly
/ hat he marred one of Bettertou's best
scenes. As soon as he passed the wings, the
irate actor ordered the prompter to ''iorfeit
Master COllery. 1t can't be done, said
that useful official; "he has no salary"
4" No salary " echoed Betterton "put
him down for ten shillings week and forfeit
him fve."
Mrs. Salisbury, the mother of johnson q
lovely, lively Hetty Thrale, was fond of re-
lating an episode in Lord Harry Pawlett g
courtship of a lady friend of hers. The
lady in question was seized with desire to
possess a couple of monkeys OF a particular
species. Anxious to crafty her whim, Lord
Harry-a bad scribe, with loose notions o
speliing-wrote off to friend in the East
Indies, entreating him to procure the pan
of monkeys, and send them home Immediately
Unfortunately, he chose to spell two, loo
and to write it in characters all OF one
height. The receiver of the order read it 100
and, to Lord Harry's dismay, notified tht
shipment of fifty monkeys of the required
description, to be followed by the other halt
hundred as speedily as possible. The
obliging lover may have victlmized himself
in this way Mrs Salisbury vouched for th'
TACT, and We have no right to set her dowr
as tarradiddler; but it is odd that gooe
century before, Sir Edward Verney shOul'
wr TO his son: To requite the news o
yodr isb, l will tell as good tale from
hence, and as true. A merchant of London
that writ to factor of his beyond sea
desired him, by the next ship, to send hin
or apes. He forgot the r, and then l
read 2o3 apes. The factor sent him -four
score, and says he shall have the rect by mex
ship; conceiving the merchant bad sent 10
!, two hundred and three apes. If yourself
friends will buy any to breed on, you coul
! never have such a chance as now !"
Sir William Drummond, finding himsel
outside a tavern where the sons of son
we're wont to meet. to enjoy the feast Q
reason and the flow Of sack, peeped throug
, the window. to see if any roysterers wer
taking their pleasure. Caught in the act b
them, he was willy-niggy dragged into th
house to make merry with Ben johnson
Michael Drayton, Sir Robert Kerr, and 3
,, William Alexander. When the hour
reckoning came, they fell to rhyming ovs
, | it, and Drummond's lines were unanimousl
! voted the best; decision saying little *
!: the impromptu skill Of the rest Of the jovi
party, since it would not seem to have r
. quired much genius to equal such q YER
as:
I, Bo-peep,
| See you four sheep,
Y And each Of you his fleece;
| f1.- The reckoning IS five shilling,
If each OF you be willing;