Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-17

1 nina TO keep up our courage, IN the Iear
of seeing great fiery cats eyes in some
bin, or behind some barrel in some corn
er of the very darkest dark ! The eel
lar was under the whole house, very
roomy, and without windows except on
the south. These we're quite large and
above ground and as the cellar behind
and the warm sun before kept them
glowing, spiders lived there all summer
eating flies, and all winter eating each
other, with now and then a hard shell
bug as digestant Also, here it wac that
we fell Our tender mouth had often
uttered bad words, such as gosh " i" /
vum," "goll darn it, 81 swan" ID
even "by jink fews," but had never
sworn one Of the regular and undoubted
oaths, until one day, as the sun shone
warm, chow we'll we remember and quiv-
or , we put cur fore finger near to
black spider, who, instead of retreating,
sprang forward and bit it. My guardian
angel must have been in the other part
of the cellar, for l was left to say-to
say-"-"-well, it would have been
darn it" only there was an m in place
of the r. In a second | would have
given worlds to have recalled the phrase.
| expected an instant catastrophe. A
vague idea of the fate of Koran, Dathan
and Abiram came over me. | rushed up
stairs, and got speedily by the side of my
mother, who was a very pious woman,
and | kept near her-all day, and was
so very good as to excite in her hope
that | was being awakened to religious
things. | never liked black spiders be-
fore and have never liked them since
Poets, scholars, and artists are often
represented living in garrets, and sad
thing it must be to live there. But a
roomy garret, extending the breadth of
the roof, is a marvellous good place to
play in Here the children are out OF
sight, in perfect liberty. That must be
an outrageous noise that could get down
to the lower floor. Here are all manner
of things to play with-boxes, chests,
crippled bureaus, cast off curtains, queer
old dresses, broken furniture, pans, fire.
! tenders, andirons, screens, and hundreds
of other things for young folks to use in
building tents, and dressing up in cos.
tune. 1n the CARR t, too, the nuts are
stored, hickory-nuts, butternuts, chest
nuts, hszle-nuts. Bushels of quinces
are heaped up through November, wait
ing to be preserved. Through the scut
tie the boys could enjoy the forbidden
pleasure of getting upon the roof, creep
ing down to the cutters, straddling thu
ridgeboard, and, on the sly, firing nuts o.
pebbles at the people passing below
The scene changes! My flesh creeps
This garret is also, sometimes judgment
hall. Naughty boys, who have laid uI
line of petty transgressions till the sun
total should be worthy of general clear
ance, go whimpering and crying up these
stairs with a silent gentleman behinC
them trimming the leaves from ounce
switch All what hatred of sin ther
visited the young wretch If he hat
only felt, when tempted to truancy, or
fibs, or stealing doughnuts, or pulling
sisters hair, or cutting up Jack " gen
orally, as he does now, sin would have
been precipice up which no temptation
could have made him climb We have
never seen paper analysis of the men
tai state of boy vociterating repent
ance, dancing with excessive nimbleness
seeking with one little hand to cover 8
space ten times its size, and squirming il
manner so supple as would make az
eel envious.
After storm, calml What pleas
ant days followed a reckoniDgl Alas
since the time when Pharaoh, on lul
of trouble, hardened his heart, boy
have done likewise. 1t is true that thC
rod of correction drives it far away from
boy, bat it comes back without any
driving. The great trouble is that w
are born boys and not men. Every one
has to be hammered out into proper shap,
on the anvil.
But the barn! He that has not beer
country boy, with great and variou
barn, and innumerable sheds, and ''lean
to's," carriage houses, cribs, floors, hug
doors, and all sorts Of creatures in
around, and under-horses, cattle, cows
calves, doves, swallows, rats, mice, wea
sells, cats, dogs, hens, chickens, pigs, anc
sheep-has lost an experience which NJ
after education can ever make upl
f Did you ever stow away hay when tn
0 pitchers winked at each other-a hint {
:, cover you up and bury your Did yor
s ever play coop" in hay NOW, an
: creep down in the corner and under th
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