Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-27

might have his for 80 dollars, and he
would throw in a stool. and tune.book
and spread for it.
Cant you throw in nice little me.
lodeon 4" says Josiah, for it sckenened
that man to see 'em 60 on. To see a
man fall down 50 dollars to ole fall.
That fellow hung round the biggest
part of the day; was there to dinner
and supper, but Josiah didn't give no
decided answer and finally he went off.
But no sooner would one swarm go than
another would come; and before the
week was out the house was chuck full.
You couldn't turn round without hittin'
against sewin' machine, or piano or
sunthin'.
And the fellers comm and goin'
at all hours. For spell at first, Josiah
would come in and talk with 'em but af
ter while he got tired out, and when
he would see one comm he would start
on run for the barn, and hide, and /
would have to stand the brunt of it
alone. One feller see Josiah running
from the barn, and he follered him in,
and Josiah dove under the barn, as /
found out afterward. happened to see
him crawlin' out after the feller drove
off. Josiah came in shakin' himself, for
he was all covered with straw and feath-
ers, and says he,
" will buy gun the first hard work
do"
Says /, 81 would be ashamed of my.
self, Josiah Allen. guess it haint no
harder for me than it is for you"
"Well, l was calculatin' to make it
easier for you. What do you suppose 1
was goin' to shoot 'em for? 1t would
help you as much as it would me to thin
'em off little"
Says |, " Josiah, to say nothin' of the
wickedness of it, it wouldn't do no good
Don't you remember the fox in the
brambles Let the old swarm remain,
for if you drive 'em off, hungryer set
would come, and then | should be utter
ly devoured.'"
Wall, this took place about noon. /
had awful headache, and | told Josiah
says /,
How | am goin' to tussle with them
agents this afternoon, | don't know, en-
joyin' such poor health as l do to-day.
When l felt we'll 1 could get along
with 'em better, but it didn't seem to me
as if | could argue with 'em all the af.
ternoon, feelin' as did, and Josiah had
got to 60 up into the woods to work.
| Says Josiah, "Pll fix 'em. I'll set a
trap jest outside of the gate, and ketch
'em in it."
Says |, That won't do no good, Jo-
siah for if you should disable EN-, !
should only have 'em to take care of
and if you should ketch one in it, the
rest could get over the fence"
Says Josiah, Cant l fix the clothes.
line SO it would trip 'em up"
Not in the daytime" saysI depressed
ly.
Take that old pop-gun of Thomas
Jefferson's and load it with juice, and
shoot 'em with it, and make 'em think
you have drawed blood"
"There haint no beet juice, " says l in
gloomy tone. "And if there was, how
could L take aim, with my head as it is
to-dayY"
Wall" says Josiah, 81 have got to
go, any way, You lock up the house
and 90 to bed and mebby you can keep
them OUT
And so | did, as soon as Josiah start
ed off. l let down the curtains and
locked the doors, and laid down. heard
knockin' to the door a good many times,
and considerable movIn' and stampin'
round the house, but never stirred till
IL Was hILle lOI UOsldu 10 come nome, ana
then / rousted up and thought / would
hang on the tea-kettle. Wall, / Jest
histed up the window-curtain, and could
jest see pair of shinin' boots in front
of the parlor door. / went to the other
window, and there could see the hull
on him. 1t was that piano man. went
into the kitchen jest as still az l could,
and | heard talkin' on the piazza, and
peeked through hole in the curtain,
and there sot two of 'em one sewin'-
machine man, and the other a organ : SO
they were friendly to each other, and sot
together.
AS | stood there the organ man spoke
up.
They must be to home pretty soon,
and guess that piano feller will find
that l can stick it out as long as he can,"
says he.
"Yes," says the other feller, "and /
guess that t'other feller will find that he
can't tucker out me, if he should stay
here all night