Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-25
The Man on the Ccllar.Door.

ers at the liQuorstore door lie had been
kicked out of it, but he was ON the cellar.
door still lie began it thus muttcriug TO
himself as O. fairfaced child passed by:
"Jack, my boy Jack - and then some one |
discovered Doe had mauudercd into narrative. /
and stopped to listen. My boy Jack, don't /
/ remember the day be was born in the two |
roomed house in the meadow The doctor /
he rode over and Granny Webb.
$50 He's a fine child says grauuie. The /
finest in Charlotte says the doctor so Doc |
was, and he grew prettier every day lie |
was his mothers boy and IL was just pic
ture to see them-Liddy and her lad, in the
high grass or under the apple trees together
Was that me that used 10 stand and look at
EN-? reckon So, hutyet-Lord, help me
it seems as if lied when ! said so
The prc.tiest picture They were like
each other, these two. And one nany thing
right ON her round, white thro was red
mark-a hith-mark. don't You know-like
n little strawberry. No hlemisl, only
beauty. And somehow it was ON the baby's
too. lust underline chin. Learned folks may
tell You why such things happen. ! only
lust know IL was So, and ! used To say IT
ever the child was lost we'd know him 10y
that mark. Happy Yes. We were MS happy
as two habies--she and |, And the real
baby? Wen he throve, and began to walk,
and began to talk, and grew to be a boy.
81" forget a good deal-a man does forget
a good deal-only- ycs-he was only eight
wears old when they built the store and
took to going there now aud then \ man
likes to talk bit and glass with a friend
seems only right. Yes, may be ! did take "a
glass too much now and then, even then ;
and somehow the farm didn't thrive, and
Liddy she frctted, and woman-likc, blamed
me- | remember her blaming me, but one
thing never was wrong-that was the boy.
Oh, the boy fair and sweet and good, good
as a girl, as his mother--thcrc was no one
better than her-and he did all he could on
the farm with his young hands
"Nou see me sitting here-you see how cold
am, and how shake. | haven't had a
drink to-day Do You expect me to remem.
Der how it all went on think | went ON
q spree-yes, / know | did-and when
came home the mother was sick, and there
was no food in the house. Yes, I'd
pawned the pillow and sold the oxen, and the
land laid waste; we couldn't feed the COW
1t was all going to rack and ruin And he
"a slim young thing; he was fourteen,
think-stood up before me, and told me
ought to be ashamed of myself That my
drinking was running all, and killing hi;
mother and a lot more All true; but I'D
been on spree, ! told you, and | was
furious ~,
~. thete was q sr'Sh IN .ne oq 9..-,,
it up, and caught him and beat him.
beat him until the blood ran down his white
back, and his mother, lying in bed, shrcked
ana shIleheu IKE illau 'nihg' put ne never
groahed' AZ iast s'uppeu anu We uIolIeu
ne ialu quite sun lor minute OF TWO "hI
'hen got up ana crepI 91t OF 'le room
was getting soper' ana began 10 leel Nha
had zone
ID ms Iatler, ! salo ne h'" ''o r's''
70 speak SO 10 ms iathsr; 49,.
And then waited but he ann I CONF
paoh-ho' ne uloh CONT pavh, ! WaS SO
Der enough pretly soon l lelt that doh'
wrong, ana tileu 10 MAKE up LOT H. Sc
the kettle oolllng' ana went TO me store 10
Yea myself; ! hau httie circuit YET ,yo'
see: l ana more than Ia done Tor iohl
WINE Tor hoihe' ana ge''lns soPerer ana So
Derer' began 10 tnlnk Oh my BOY JACK
ne was Nneh VnlIleu MN III NY INNS aip
OF ms moiher a Pfetty slr, ana OIL inc ploW
II gwen nih' ana began TO Know / Il or
SOON
dohe fghI ana says 10 MS no'heI sol
pilg ana choHlhS sun
lAddy, BOY shouldh pe permitted I
preach TO ms iather' had u go my ant,
ana then J pushed open the p-u-foom uo'
ana says
JACK, my noN' come 10 TEA ANA ai""l
ne respectful m
but then stopped Inc WINDOW W.
wac open ms ittls trunk slood empty
tile inluule oil lle hoor anu plilneu 70 u
neu7quiit was d paper NI'''eu ON III lencl
Inns was what II salu
heie name loI 'he pace ueNl
80 TO- Ill,k we Il met 'ncIS lor you ~
one ana ! thlhk you nave maze me one 10
'oou-'N'
nc ulun even can IN, I"'ne,' put
hnsN II, Miote W me anu l s'alc"V" II
anu Wlue loi num- put louNu no slsn Vi mn
ana u nearly hliied me- H9ihethlhs ma
Peheu 10 my heau OF heatr lalu on u
pauA lOi hioiil7' anu 'la' wig vi hUls III
gave me ana hurseu me- ana Nheh VI
wen again l s"ore urlhk no more a'
TOOK the pienSe'
was poor, poor man. ana neSerhVoi
again put we iiNed' we scraped along al
thls Is what we KEEP saying 10 eac1 otheF'
ana = men JACK comes PACK we MAJ
happS n9 9 ioI ni'l "hen o"ch CON
Dack' ne Il see ihat lhlnss are chahSe'
ouI one cry was JACK just JACK ana
watched ana Walted-yes ana prayeeal-al
so grew 10 pe eldeiiy people ana sun Ja'
alu nor come paoN pu. we hoPed-yes'
noPou On, We Ma,'eu, Auu sue u saN 70 ~
- my WY Nuuiu ,i n " Noulu ne nhe u
lle oiu stories ana ti'll ne Walk m son
Jay rlon alu nahu -, ptowi, Sallor'
uia'e SoIlleI- l'h u tockeV luli VI hol
Anu Always az uIrN' she se' her iit'
amp ~ uie WlhuoN, neeause. sne salI'
yacN sI1uiu come at nlBI' ne see II shi
ing ana kho" MS motiier waited ior III
se" g.,
Anu al thl3 WINE ine place was gro
TX ana We nau shoPs anu chuich's anu
!aii anu nv" an '','n ,le'e Mas e'eh na.,
= once plach man Tor some avn
giili'e 1ie'' woman N ''la' i,au hiileu II
INSTANT oo'ie % tne IvoPie IAeu 70 =
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"oout ,illis IL niahcs you cullVus ~
10 ohe u"y "heh there was 70 DC u lhi
eAeo".'ou man Mh9 "au murdered wv
~ P7oi1'' wy az, ~ maui W NY III
~ w. ~, nun .'.i ny W. I',' ~.
mssh SURE Ia wait uii'li .nc i"St ou.
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pp apie 70 l'i ~, apo1t IT, ! NolueI now ~
Manteu 70 put ulu Anu 80 tial avn