Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-11-06
Iauas Ia His Wife.
MONTPELIER, W.. Nov. 9Th, 1878.


Well, Nancy dear, 1 thought l would 8
write again before l came home' whicn &C
wont be again until thanksgiving. Nv
talked it over withlquite number OF the 3
members; and we thought perhaps we ii
would not be elected again, and we had u
better make the most of it while we had i,
chanch. Three 1dollars day, you know e
il a great deal more than | can earn tt
making shingles. We are going to intro {
duce lot of bills relateing 10 the common {
schools. the fish in the pond ut North
MONTPELIER, &C., &C., just to spin out the
yarn. aud Ezekiel Bobkins Che is the
member from Lanesville) is going to in
troduce bill to see if the state will APP
propriate sufficient sum 10 establish
light house and grain elevator at the head
of Berlin pond.
You know jeremiah Doolittle Obey call
him Jerry here). He was elected from
) Scrabble Hollow. Well, he come over
the other night and wanted Perkins and
In perkins, he is from Perkins Gore)
should go out with him little while. He
said we would get back early.l Now you
I know jeremiah was here two years ago,
n and he says he knows everything there Is
in Montpelier, from. the Red Arch bridge
s O Peck's tannery. Perkins said. Jonas,
1t less 60; we may see something that was
!, never seen before; and then we shall have
something to tell the folks about when We
~ ret back to the Gore and No 10. Well
10 we thought we would 90, and as it was
te raining little, put on that new overcoa
m | paid Haskell 1925 for, and we started
off. The gass lights were all lit up, and
Nv all most thought l was walking in tn
tn streets of London, although never wa
ed any nearer 10 London than South Wood
ne bury. vet l always had an idea thu
i'd Montpclier and London were great de'
Jay alike. Well, jeremiah, he took us wa
hat down to the lower end of the street,
i'h where we see red and green light in IL
window. Then he looked all around
my sec if any body was coming; then he we
'h0 M to the door and raped twice. and wa
fh ed a minute or two and raped again. Al
'a.e then some one opened the door and we
,eir went in. did not see but two or thF
old persons, and they set at table reaoll
INIT newspapers. Pretty quick there was
fellow came out Of another room with
'eks sleeves rolled up, and jeremiah tod n
IN he guessed we'd 60 into the inner lod!
wa W. Then the fellow opened door and
stria went in. There was quite " h"uio0'
IS of persons there, and they all set aroun'
lhe table covered with green cloth. Ana u
IS were amuseing themselves with Ill
! in souare pieces of white chalk, and I'll
veen called them duces and trays and SD
and they would put them in collar
,au's and rattle them around awhile and t
3(th snill them on the table, and then I
listed would all look to see which side up t
- nv were. | asked jeremiah if they
now. telling fortunes, aud he said, Yes, that
very the way II good many had their 1ortt
Ex- 'N nv III cot ,lown and loo
made tod ino'i wv ''
l.. De on.
icers Pretty soon there was some girls C
Mrs in with bran new print aprons on
ident, .,> ,,nd -. ,;tchar IF lie
alher- lhey e"oi VI .'0N- -, ,a
adc, which they passed around and
all drank some. | noticed that 1t h
aA'- bitter taste to it. Then jeremiah SAT-
'oVei- oncssed we had better see if " dame
'llooS tune" would smile upon US, and he
neli"' half dollar on the table. and Perkins
N. ~ - :. [ done the same. Then we SHOOK
If into nieces of white chalk, and one OF the
a por- look the money and put it in his pc
re, but Then we drank some more lemon ad'
oe'ieS' nut down some more money. Inc
~ ,y,v drank again. l noticed that Jere
ed, ac- took his watch and laid it on the tab
Platts- T laid mine on the table too, and g
forgot TO put it back in my pocket
keeps began to be awful sleepy. and the
N. H. thing remember Perkins was try'
IL shot oct me home. noticed that the
lot took wore ont in the streets, but know IL
Of John oot home early, for heard the town
crowd strike one lust as we were creeping
reats of o,, s,o;rs II strnck one three 0
succeed o'oA ~ 49,, oo, dow, 70 III,
him to times u'' INV H.
ustrious House that morning IN SEASON " III
VS. have prayer by the chaplain, and l hav
'Iurdock ,.o,,h,t n,ixed ever sense.
y, -,o,,,. f,;tbrrl hnshar
vas sent i''"' T.
PS. Tell Levi to give the Old