Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-31
temperance.
Only the Husk---A Life Sketch.

have been all right II his head and his Will
had only been right but, these being wrong,
the whole machine was going to the bad
very fast, though there were times when the
heart felt something Of its old truthful
yearning. Tom had lost his place as fore
man in the great machine shop, and what
money he now earned came from odd jobs
of tinkering which he was able to do, here
and there, at private houses for Tom was
a genius as well as a mechanic, and when
his hand was steady enough he could mend
a clock, or clean watch, as well as he could
set up and regulate steam engine.
One day Tom had job to mend up
broken moving machine and reaper, for
which he received five dollars, and on the
following morning he started out for his old
haunt-the village tavern. He knew that
his wife sadly needed the money, and that
his two little children were in absolute suf-
fering from want of clothing and on this
morning he held debate with the better
part of himself but the better part had be-
come very weak and shaky, and the demon
Of appetite carried the day.
SO away to the tavern Tom went, where,
for two or three hours, he felt the exhilarat-
ing effects of the alcoholic draughts and
fanced himself happy, as he could sing and
laugh but as usual, stupefaction followed,
and the man part died out. lie drank while
he could stand, and then lay down in cor
ner, where his companions left him.
II was late at night--almost midnight
when the landlords wife came into the bar
room to see what kept her husband up
and she quickly saw.
Peter" she said, not in a pleasant mood,
"why don't you send that miserable Tom
Darcy home He's been hanging around
here long enough"
Toms stupefaction was not sound sleep.
The dead coma had left his brain, and the
calling of his name strung his senses to
keen attention. He had an insane love of
rum but he did not love the landlord. In
other years Peter Tindar and himself had
loved and wooed the same sweet maiden
Ellen Goss--and he won her, leaving Peter
to take up with the vinegary spinster who
had brought him the tavern, and he knew
that lately the tapster had gloated over the
misery of the woman who had once dis
carded him.
"Why don't you send him home ?" de
manded Mrs. Tindar, with an impatient
stamp of the foot.
Hush, Betsey He's got more money
| Let him be, and he'll be sure to spend il
before he goes home. III have the kerne
of the nut, and his wife may have the
husk p'
With a sniff and snap Betsey turned
away, and shortly afterward Tom Darcy
lifted himself upon his elbow.
"Ah, Tom, are you awake ~
Yes"
"Tbon rou.e ~, and bavo q warn, ,,Iass
ono peter-I WON'T drink onv rn0re IN
nio,ht, '
:. II won't burt vou Tom--iust a olass ,
al know if wont said Tom. bmtfonine
nm his coat Inv The solitary hutton left IS
knowNit Won't -
And with this he went ont into the chill
air If midn;gbt When he had got ava,
from the shadow of The tavern he stonne,
and looked mn at tbe stars and then n,
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g Ave" he muttered g,r;rd;r, HE hon
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