The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-06-13

significant title of store-keepers, and a
disciple of Esculapius, who, for a
novelty, brought more subjects into
the world than he sent out of it. In
the midst of this incongruous group of
dwellings, rose the mansion of the
Judge, towering proudly above all its
neighbors. The house itself had been
built entirely under the superintend-
ence of a Mr.. Richard Jones, who,
from a certain cleverness in small mat
ters, and his willingness to exert his
talents, added to the circumstance of
their being sisters children, ordinarily
superintended all the minor concerns
Of Marmaduke Temples business.
Richard was fond Of saying, that this
child Of his invention consisted of
nothing more or less, than what should
form the groundwork of a cleryman's
discourse viz. firstly, and lastly.
He had commenced has labor in the
first year of their residence, by erect
ing tall, gaunt edifce of wood, with
its gable towards the highway. In
this shelter, for it was but little more,
the family resided for three years. By
the end of that period, Richard had
completed his design. He had availed
himself, in this heavy undertaking, OF
the experience Of acertain wandering,
eastern mechanic, who, by exhibiting
few solid plates Of English architec-
tnre, and talking learnedly of frienzes,
entablatures, and particularly of the
composite order, had obtained a very
undue influence over Richards taste,
in every thing that pertained to that
branch of the fine arts. Not but that
Mr.. Jones affected to consider Mr..
Hiram Doolittle perfect empiric in
his profession being in the constant
habit Of listening to his treatises on
architecture, with a kind of indulgent
smile, yet, either from an inability to
oppose them by any thing plausible
from his own stores of learning, or
from secret admiration of their truth,
Richard generally submitted to the ar
guments of his coadjutor.
The house itself, or the "lastly," d"
was of stone large, square, formal,
and far from uncomfortable. These
were four requisites, on which Marina
duke had insisted with little more
than his ordinary pertinacity. But
everything else waspeaceably resigned
@ortfGies tG found and Bit BIT ttlo Opportunity
for the display of their talents on a
stone editice, excepting in the roof and
in the porch. The former, twas soon
decided, should be made with four
faces and platform, in order to hide
a part of the building that all writer's
agreed was an object that ought to be
concealed. 1t was soon seen, that, in
defiance of all rule, the roof was by
far the most conspicuous part of the
edifce. Richard and his associate
consoled themselves with the belief,
that the covering would aid in conceal
ing this unnatural elevation; but ev-
cry shingle that was laid was only
multiplying objects to look at. Rich
ard essayed to remedy the evil with
paint, and four different colors were
laid on by his own hands. The first
was a sky blue, in the vain expecta-
ton that the eye might be cheated in
to the belief, it was the heavens them
selves that hung so imposingly over
Marmakuke's dwelling; the second
was, what he called, a "cloud-color,
being nothing more or less than an
imitation of light smoke; the third
was what Richard termed an invisible
green, which he laid on with belief,
that the deformity might be blended
with the background of pines, that
rose. in tall grandeur, but a short
distance in the rear of the mansion
house. But all these ingenious expe-
dients entirely failed, and our artists
relinquished the desire to Conceal, and
attempted to ornament, the offensive
member. The last color that Richard
bestowed on the luckless roof, was 8
"sun-shiny yellow )" so called, both
from its resemblance to, and its pow.
ers to resist, the rays of the great
luminary,
Marmaduke bore the deformity il
his dwelling with great good nature
and soon contrived by his own i'm
provements, to give an air of respect
ability and comfort to his place of res
idence; still there was much of incon
gruity, even Immediately about th'
mansion-house. But these unpleasant
features of the view were unnoticeC
by the delighted Elizabeth, who, al
the horses slowly moved down th'
side of the mountain, saw only il
gross the cluster of houses that la.
like map at her feet; the fift.
smokes, that were diagonally curtin:
from the valley to the clouds tn
frozen lake, as it lay embedded il
mountains of evergreen, with the lohi
shadows of the pines on its white SUI
face, lengthening in the setting sun
the dark riband of water, that gushe
from the outlet, and was winding it
way already towards the far distan
Chesapeale-the G altered, though sti
remembered, scenes Of her childhoo
and Of JOY
The cheerful sound Of sleigh-bell'
/, however, soon attracted the attentio
of the whole party, as they came jins
ling up the sides of the mountain, at
rate that announced both a powerf
/, team and a hard driver. The bush'
which lined the highway interrup
} ed the view, and they were clo