Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-10
" Came TO Ask"

81 Came TO Ask
Two pretty, old-fashioned cottages slanC
Ing rear edh other on secluded tree
shaded country road, separated by lit
tie meadow, which from the birth o
the spring to the death of the au
Iumn rcjoiced in waving green grasse,
and white daisies and yellow dnndclions
and after that wore robe woven ol
snow flakes as fur and pure as when they
fell from the skies. until old winter, tC
whom the robe belonged hearing the re-
turning birds ask for the volcts, gathered
it about him and vanished again.
In one Of them, the larger, in front OF
which was II neatly kept lawn and at the
back small hothouse and miniature veg
rlable garden, lived Miles Guernsey and
his man Mike, the one IN old bachelor,
the other, rs he described himself, "a
wildly man, thanks be to the Lord that
sint her rcSt.n
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it, for in rose time it was completely SUR
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about "A month efnrc my story Git it may
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th y Went to heaven on the very same day.
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