Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-14

| III lHe iHOGnlnR, hTdnuldJnti oidN hhbche'
up old Robin Gray-that was the family
horse-and rode into town to his bankers.
{" How much ready money have here ?
"Twenty-five hundred dollars"
6" want to give my daughter, Mary Gray
five hundred dollars and it must reach For
Dedock before or on Christmas day. Nov
I want you to tell me the best way to get i
to her."
"Does she live near United State,
Bank 2"
Not within hundred miles"
Send it by express we are sending out
a number of Western packages shall we
send yours to-day ?"
" You say there is no risk of loss 2"
" None at all if the money is lost, it will
be refunded"
"Well you fix it up all right; you know
how better than | do. You want me to
sign my name 2"
"Yes."
is that all ?"
Yes, Deacon; it will be all right
| "Well, declare" said the Deacon, it
don't take long to fix up things if anybody
knows how"
Grandmother Gray also had been very
busy all the morning and she was very
happy. She told John, the hired man, to
fetch down the great old.fashioned chest
from the garret and set it in the kitchen.
Now what do you think Grandmother Gray
thought of the very first thing Books
Strange, was it not Can you account for it ?
"There's all the Goodrich Stories-Peter
Farley, we used to call them when | was
girl"
"The world is round like a ball." said
grandmother 81 remember it as well as
when first learned it in my little Peter
Farley.
" Seems swinging in the air." went on the
old lady again.
"Then there are the Abbott stories, Fran
coma Mountains, Cornerstone: O wonder
if the Deacon will miss it p and here are
all Jed's college books, as fresh and as new
as ever what waste of money books are,
do declare, thrown aside like an old gar
ment for moths and rats to corrupt. They
shan't lie here doing no good I'll send
them ALL"
Grandmother Gray had very pretty col
lection of picture books, unsoiled and good
as new they had pictures of the cunning
est rabbits, squirrels, deer, birds and other
creatures, with stories about them; she
added these books, along with states, pencils,
paper pens, ink, envelopes. and postage
stamps.
81 don't know anything about Mary's
boy, but if he's like the other Grays, he will
be fond Of learning and there's sight of
learning in that chest" soliloquized grand
mother.
Now, so far, the collection of books, paper
and so forth, she had done as a duty she
owed to Mary's child the rest of the great
chest, Grandmother Gray intended to fill as
t,la Ln1la l.I
cumulated, and all as good as new; these
were added next Grandmother went back
into town and herself selected two suits of
very good clothes for boy of ten or twelve,
for its strange thing, if you know the age
of a boy you can almost always guess what
clothes will fit him. Mittens and handker-
chiefs, boots and shoes, bountiful, generous
Grandmother Gray purchased; and when she
went home again she set Betty, her servant,
to make six new shirts for Charlie There's
nothing in this world much better for boy
to have than a good grandmother. Then
some very comfortable clothing was added
for Mary. Now what do you suppose
Grandmother Gray rounded off the top of
the great chest with ? A fruit cake iced as
white as snow on the top, doughuuts, bag
of cookies-some housekeepers call them
jumbles-and some seed-cake; but Grand
inother gray Always calied them cookies.
Grandfather poohooed at the cakes, but
grandmother said 81 guess | know what
Mary likes 2" So grandfather said If you
sehd the CAKE VIII Send some coHee' tea'
sugar, and spices" When Grandfather
Gray returned with his groceries he had a
large bundle of candies, although as a
rule, he did not believe in them. The chest
was locked, strapped, and hurried off by
express Grandiather Gray salu - nave
loU iei' 50 happy Ill years anu years.
CHAPTER III.
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oh' "iuow ono"' are you 'hele ihe
chest Is 10, you:
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yourself -,
sure enough, her name was there, with
directions so PLAIN no one could make a
mistake -. .o,
what shall DO with II
Take 1t TO my mousse, II you please pu'
can I pay you to-day; nave no money
ray me when you can MIS- snow
By TINS tlme the mai ana express were
ready Inc eTpress,hah said " MIS- snow
you are IN iuck 'o-uay mere Is money
paohase iol you
~ can oe lor me, sir'
les, mere is tne very same direc'loh tha'
was on on s.s ene cnes'' :. .o,,.,,1 600 ooa - !,
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a, last
"' ,T, ii'e' r-u-..i =, ., IL; ,.
ihet ioliV"eu BraNe consultation aoou
what should be done with the money. Mary's
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