St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-04-26

But what she sed sunk deep into my
heart all the same. Eff John, wich is
wat we named the boy, shood grow up
and shood inherit the disposishun NV
his sainted mother, he wood support
me, and possibly through his earnest
efforts Good go thro the balance of the
valley and shadder in comparative com
fort. / wuz finally reconciled.
Time rolled on and there WIZ another
added to the fold, wich wuz girl.
"Mariar," wuz my remark, ''this is
too much. The boy was a incubus,
but hev borne it, looking to the fucher.
But wat kin girl do? She is a ex-
she gifts off your hands. I shudder wen
1 think wat that puny girl will cost us,
and wat we hev got to go thro on its
account.
And in bitter mood sot down with
my head in my hands, like one whose
future is gloomy. Up spoke Marian,
once more:
"My dear, Imogene will grow up into
fine woman, and when she is twenty
four"
"Why not seventeen 2"
"Seventeen be it. When she is
seventeen she VIII marry IICn Ulu
man. You kin do better out NV a SON
in-law than 700 kin out Nv son, fol
the son-in-law will be in love with the
girl, and a man in love kin be made to
do anything. For your sake, deer,
hope all our children will be girls"
Agin pondered. 1t wood not be a
bad thing to hev rich son-in-law, to
whom you Good go and borrer ten dol
lars every time yoO needed it. Wat
son-in-law in this Chrischen land wood
let his father-in-law, the awthOr of his
wife's bein, go dry for the lack of few
paltry dollars And besides if he didn't
| like it, and saw any chance Nv the old
mans drinkin' hisself to deth he wood
hasten that cOnclushen. Wat glOri-
GUS deth l accepted the dawter and
bore Mariar's increest labOrs to pervide
for it, with resignashun.
Need l narrate how one follered an
other in rapid successhun-how the
number increest till there wuz ten NV
them, and how eagerly looked forred
to the time when | shood rest frum
Mariar's labers and sit down under their
vines and fig trees and enjoy life.
1t wuz a terrible strain on Marian,
and sympathized with her. The chill
dren cost money ez well ez labor.
Them children cost me ez follers:
Board Nv my mother-in-law three weeks for
each s1s OO
Medikle attendance, each 5 OC
Soothin Syrups carminative balsams, cantor
| and SIGH each 80 OO
Efr;aS Erst outfit TT tdSGs for child bill child
Loss Nv wife's services for three weeks 40 OF
Clothin, sehOolin and medikle attendance, ct
aaff
selves each 500 OF
| Or, say in round numbers, 5000 each
Multiply this by ten and you hev the
comfortable sum NV $1,000, wich these
addishuns to the census substracted
frum MariaI's earnins, wich wuZ just
that amount taken frum me. But ez II
wuz gOin on, | never rebelled or mur.
INJURED. Ez | looked ut John | Iemarkt
to myself, "YOO will be lawyer anC
will win distinkshen and fees. Tha
distinkshun | will share and the feei
likewise. Marian 700 shell marry wei
and yoor husband will he my prop an(
stay. Sammy, destined for the min
istry, Tom for bankin and the others
down to the girl in the cradle, | haC
arranged in my minds eye so ez t.
make me an incum.
Ez l looked over them children fel
rich. looked upon them ez an invest
ment, better than life inshoorance o.
savings banks. The luv NV child fol
its parent is more certain than bank o.
life inshOOrance. They may break, bu
nacher can't be wiped out, nOhow, anC
is certain to endoor. And in most states
there is a law compellin children to take
keer NV their parents whether they
want to or not.
And so communin with myself | le
Marian work for them children ez she
chose to. l found myself loOkin witt
solisstood on them offspring, and l saw
to it that they wuz kept in good con
dishen and not exposed to any disease
that wuz likely to prove fatal. M.
solissitOod went so far on one Occashun
when one NV EN- waz i'll actilly ven
and split oven wood rather than lie
Marian drop that child and do it herself
wich had alluz ben her dooty and priv
ilege.
A fathers luv is the most techin thin:
in nacher. Hundreds Ov mites hev
laid in bed and permitted Marian to gi
up for catnip tea, when really needed
sleep, and her arisin disturbed me ant
L
woman to bring from the kitchen, mites
for them children, would never b.
bleeved. Like troo father, l mad
sacrifices for them children. / felt th
dooty NV economisin that they nigh
enjoy advantages and to that end
sternly refoozed to let Meriar pay for
pew in the church she belonged to, an
at once cut off her annooal subscripshe
to the Furrin Mishnary Society.
'Meriar," remarkt pintin at the tel
"the heather is not only at our dool
but they are inside thereof"
. Well wood it hev bin for me eff he
never allowed myself to be over-peI
, suaded in this matter. Marian sub
, under the labor Nv carin for them chi
dren, and went to her long home, de
spite the advice l had given hor fe
, management Nv EN-. / drop a teer t
the memry Nv that excellent pervide
she was my stay for quarter NV
: Gentry. My second wuz better lookiI
| but the mint she wuz married sh
: closed the shop Il have alluz marie
milliners,) and insisted on my sup lOrti
her. My third wuz weakly-I.wuz too
in with her-cOuldent work. Wat
contrast! Marian frekently put MOI
gage on her fixters to supply the fathe
: NV her children with the necessaries u
life. Alas |! them fixters all are gone
this many yeer.
: Time rolled on, and Tom reached th
} age Nv twenty-five and wuz admitte
to the bar and got into a good practi,
Now, sed to myself, sheI reap m
reward. The first fee Tom got prompt
ly asked him for ten dollars, wich wa
to hev bin the first drop NV the golde