Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-03
What Bulge Saw at the Centennial.

1 know what y0U'G have liked, there
was picture of Goliath, an David hat
chopped his head off an he was a-holdin
it up,-l think he ought to have his heaC
chopped off if he looked as horrible Il.
that. An saw Gree, and the pigs al
squealng to her to turn 'em back into mer
again, Il really believe | henri en- squeaI
an Gree just sat there lookin Xix,
Bridget does when she won't give us more
cake. 1t made me feel dreadfM to think
there was men inside of those pigs.
But what bothered me WAS, every once
in while we would come to place
where they sold cakes, an then papa
would hurry right past; kept showing
nim the cakes, bat he would 20 along
and he did just the same thing at the places
where they made candy, only he stopped
at one place where they was making
chocolate candy, an grindin' the chocolate
Ill up so that it looked like mud. an he
said, Is MT that disgustin'?' Well, il
dill MI look gerry nice.
There was whole lot of things from
Egypt, where Joseph and Moses lived
you know, and all around the wall was
pictures of houses in Egypt, an asked
papa which of 'em Phlroah lived in, an
then two or three people close to us look
ed at me an laughed out loud, an | asked
papa what they laughed for, an he said he
guessed it was because | talked so loud
| do think little boys have an awful lot o
bothcrs in this world, an big people art
real ugly to 'em; but papa took me away
from them, an got some candy at last
an think twas about time.
Then we saw lots OF an mails, an birds
an fishes, only they wasn't alive, an
was walking along lhinkin' that wished
we could see somebody that we knew
when all Of sudden saw turtle usl
like ours, Just screamed right out an
like to have cried, WAS so glad. That
was in The Gov ment Building | believe
papa called it; an [ saw all the kinds OIL
things they kill people with in wars, an Il
Man on horse that was just like pups
was when he was sollier,-I guess you
wouldn't want to run up to him an ask
him what he'd brought you, he looked 81
'wful. An just outside of the door Of
(hat house was a big god ike the heather,
make an pray to. | should think they
Vou'd keep him out-of-doors. he was 81
awful ugly-why, wouldn'tsay my pray
ers to him if didn't eUcr get anything.
| asked papa if the god was standin' there
while lie made heaven for himself, an
papa sail iii have to ask Mr.. Huxley
about that; | don't know any Mr.. Huxley,
do you9
You never saw such lots Of pictures
there was rooms, an rooms, an rooms,
an each one of them was us lovely us Mr..
Browns barn was when the circus pic
lures was all over it. An then there was
the awtMiieSt picture of u whole lot of lit.
tic boys-not very little, cit er-thAt was
crucitied to keep the Lord from being an.
cry. l tell yOu, just said u little prayer
right away, an toll the Lord that | was
glad wasn't IL little boy then, if that was
the kind of things they done 10 EN-. |
guess | know what people mean now,
when they say they've got the blues, co,
that dreadful picture was blue all over.
| think comm home was about as nice
as anything, though, eos boys kept com
in through the cars with bananas. an figs
an peanuts, an apples, an cakes, an pr
pa bought me everything | wanted, an u
lovely lady SIT in the seat with us an told
about II picture ofCoumbus' $ sailors kneel-
in down and Begin him to forgive EN-
for bein' so bad, just like mamma reads
to us out of the history book. An then
another lady SIT in the seat with us, but
she wasn't SO nice, COS she said Sonton
NAL, Il think big folks onght to know
how to talk palmer than that. An papa
said he d 20 out II minute or two, an |
was thlnkin' what u great traveller was
gettin to be. an how | knew most every.
thing now Id been to the Centennial, an
how ! was smart enough to be big man
right away, IN what lots Of things I'd do,
and how I'd have everything nice | want
ed to, like big men do, when all ut once
got afraid we'd gone off an left papa, an
then | got to be u little boy right away
again, an cried, an when papa got back
just jumped in his lap an thought I'd
rather stay Il little boy.
I'm awful sorry you wasn't there, too,
Tod, but papa said such little boy as YOU
couldn't do so much wllkin'. And asked
papa when thcred be one that you'd be
big enough to go to, and he said, Not
'or "A hundred years" Gracious Peter! |
knew you'd be dead before then. Blu
you'll see n centennial even if you die, cos
he Lord has everything nice in heaven,
IN centennals are nice, so therell be lots
If 'em there. an you wont get tired a bit
ookin' at 'em, an | don't believe the
.ngeLS ii laugh at you when you say
hngs, an you won't be dragged past
il The cake and candy places, so | guess
QUILL have good time, even if Won
wasn't with u.s. AnthOr of" Helen's b.
ies," s.. Nicholas for JhuGry.