The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-26
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that about the time Mr.. Hopkins's return
10 MS native town, the Squire was employ
ed by many of his neighbors who had in
vested portion OF their small capital in
wild western lands, and who were begin
ming to lear that both their investment and
| their titles were poor, to take matter into
| his own hands and extricate them from
their difficulties The work had been long
and tedious, and month after month was
the little Office closed no summer breeze
| stole in at the window and tossed the legal
papers over the dusty floor; no smoke
curled from the chimney on the hard win
ter mornings, To tell of the life and warmth
and comfort below. In fact, Mr. Wright
had been obliged to take up his abode in
the remote west. lie stationed himself in
new. muddy, sprawlug, dismal western
town, where he worked for his clients and
sighed for his neat New England home. II
was to this town that his daughter Fanny
went with the young minister whom she
married; in fact, it was through Mr..
Wrights influence that the parish was
offetd to Fannv's hush md INN lately on
his graduation. The circumstances of the
affair were all deemed fortunate-the in.
yestment of the people in those doubtful
lands, the employment of Squire Wright
in the investigation. the engagement of the
lovely Fanny to the minister, the wants of
That young and rising western parish, the
settlement, the chances which attended the
growing town-all seemed to conspire to
give the family of the Squire unusual good
fortune. But trouble came apace. The
young minister broke down under the in
lluences of the climate the miasna was
too much for HIM; he was fretted by the
ragged edge of society there; he was too
sensitive for the rough vitality of border
life; and he died after few months of ex-
haustlng and unsatisfactory toll. Fanny
was shocked and broken hearted hy the
sudden calamity; and when, the father
being dead, her boy as born. she felt that
she had Travelled the full circle of life. and
grown old before her prime, and was left
to toll for years along that road which to
the aged is but step into the Joy and re-
pose Of Heaven Her brother, a sturdy
lad, who had accompanied his father to the
west, lost his health entirely through ex-
posure In the forests and river bottoms
which he was called up to explore; her
mother grew rapidly old under the weight
of care and anxiety, which she bore with
sublime matronly courage; and her father.
calm and self-posse ssed as he was, alone
preserved himself superior to all the adj.
verse influences about him. 1t was in this
condition of himself and his family that
Squire Wright summarily finished the
work given him by his clients, and return
ed to lothian. 1t was mid-winter, it is
true, when he and his reached their old
home; but it was a New England winter,
with its clear, cold, invigorating aimos-
phere; ii was New England home, with
its ample provisions for winter comfort
and enjoyment; and it was upon Mrs
Wright, an accomplished New England
matron and hOusekeeper, that the business
OF arranging that home for the various in
mates fell. Under her direction the ''best
chamber was soon ready for Fanny and
her boy; u comfortable room was soon
psepared for the anguishing son; the pa
rental bedroom was rapidly put in order
and reinstated family looked about them
and from one to another, to see if the alb
sence was dream. The sorrow stricken
mother and the little child, the pallid
cheek of that once stalwart and Iuddy boy
t0tA ttdf MS anii, ,pnh,A tnc s'ffois5 mud
the little chimney. They were all back in
lothian.
81 do so want to see Fanny and her boy"
said Clara Bell.
81 rejoice in Mrs. Wright's return" said
Mrs. Howe.
"Now, Fanny will take her place again
Howe.
81 shall be very glad to renew my oldac-
uuaintance with Mr.. Wright. / haven't
seen HIM tor years" said Mr.. Hopkins.
~ hope the squire has forgotten that old
horse case, said William Jones.
81 wonder whether Squire Wright will
take student into his Office, next autumn"
asid the school-master.
Gwen get the Squire to join the club,
said John Thomas.
"He used know a good cow from poor
one" said Peter llsley.
"If he has brought back the money
wasted in those internal western lands.
III shoe his horse for nothing as long as he
lives" said Phineas Barnes.
1t was in the midst of the rejoicings and
congratulations and sympathy, on the re-
return of Squire Wright and his family,
that Mr.. Howe and John Thomas set them
selves to work to prepare for the next meet
| ing of the club. They concluded that the
hay crop had been discussed enough, and
that all the theories about the value OF
meadow hay and salt hay had been settled
| long ago by the cattle themselves-both OF
which can he made to answer very good
purpose when accompanied by meal and
turnips-and either of which, when Ted
alone, is mere 'vaniiy and vexation OF
spirit" They determined, therefore, that
next in importance to the winter feeding OF
animals is their supply of food in the pas
ture during the summer months and they
sent word to the president and the mem
beers Of the club that the next subject Tor
| discussion would he