Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-03

We saw Mrs. Darlington the other day
She has just built her new house out in the
country. She says she is going to set out
some scrubbery in the front yard, same as
they DO 10 the rhubarbs Of Boston. There
are only some temporary steps up at the
front door as yet composed principally Of ir-
regular stones and loose blocks Of wood.
She said she liked to have upset her quilabub
trying to get in there the day before. She
intended to keep fowls this season. She has
heard the Brahmans highly spoken Of, aud
meant TO try one but had concluded she
would get Hamburgs mostly because she
bad been told that when they were sitting
they would lay STILL
told her read in paper that Mr.
Barnum had introduced kind that he said
would lay still, after they had been killed,
but that this was generally believed to be
one Of his Humbugs.
There" said she, III was afraid l had
got that name wrong, 1t was Ilumbugs' L
meant"
She said. though, she did not believe much
in them; she heard of that Barnum before (;
Ike had read good deal to her last winter
out of his Awfu-biology, and she did not
think it fit book to be in the common
school, She said she wanted fowls that
would be fit to eat whether they. laid an egg
| or not, and that was the reason she wouldn't
have Leghorns, for If their legs were that
way, what sort of meat could the rest Of EN-
be?"
She has had Gne cupola built over the
middle of the roof, and says she enjoys it as
much as any part Of the house. She sits
with her knitting an hour or two every day
out under the apple.tree where she can get a
full view of it, She says she does take some
credit to herself for unselishness in that, for
her neighbors all over the village can see it
as well as she can, she had thought some
Of having an opening made to it from the in-
side of the house; but children might
get up there, and it would be dangerous
She having some of her rooms papered
just now. She remarked that she got green
for her bedroom but, after she heard that
they put larceny into it, she had carried it
back, and got blue instead. Her carpets
were down in all the rooms below, except in
the psrIor. She had not decided what to
get for that.
"Widow Barfoot was to day before yes.
terday," she went on to say "and the widow
thought that Brussels would be the proper
thing to have. l told her that material
might do for some things, but | would not
have EN- in carpet If never had any
Mrs. Jacobs, next neighbOr to the widow,
over the brook, advised me by all means to
get something dyed 10 the wool, because it
would be cheapest in the end, but told the
company that wouldn't buy anything that
had died in that way if could get it for
half price. Finally, after considerable dis
pute, Jane Brightman spoke out, and said
administer, that's just the thing"
"Woll," says [, al have no objection to
ask him; but then, you know, I'm not going
to pin my faith to his apron.strings if he is
minister. have my own ideas about this
and that, spite Of anybody. | have about
concluded to let that room 60 now till spring
and hope by that time my mind will be
settled"
When came away, she said she hoped
that she should like the neighborhood, and
she guessed they were pretty clever people,
though she did not like the physic homiuy OF
their faces, and she didn't think some OF
them were bright enough to see through a
mother milestone any quicker than she could.
-COttdge Hearth.