Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-04
VOL. Ii NEW SERIES. VOL. XIV.

! must pay for him. Finally. | said | wan
investing in cats now as much as | was. ana
with that she walked off in II huff, carrying
| the remains with her. That closed our inter
course with the Jonses. Mrs Jores Joined an.
other church and took her tribe with her She
said she would not hold fellowship with ms.
sassins. Well, by and by comes Mrs.
Browns turn-she that went by here a min
ute ago. She had disgraceiul old yellow
cat that she thought as much of as if he was
twins, and one night he tried that trap on
sort of satisfactory, that he laid down and
cured up and stayed with it. Such was the
end of Sir John Baldwin"
WAS that the name of the cat p
The same. There's cats around here with
names that twould surprise you Maria" Il to his
wife, what was that cats name that eat n
keg of ratsbane by mistake over at Hooper's
ana started home and got struck by lightning
and took the blind staggers and fell in the
well and was most drowned before they could
fish him out -
THAT was that colored Deacon Jackson's
cat. | only remember the last end of its
name. which was To-Be-Or r-Not-T Be That
-ls-The Question-Jackson"
"Shoo that amt the one That's the
one that eat up an entire box OF seidlitz pow
ders, and then hadn't any more Judgment
than To go and take drink He was consid-
cred to be great loss. but never could see
1t. Well, no matter about the armes Mrs.
Brown wanted to be reasonable. but Mrs.
Jones wouldn't let her. She put her up to
going to law for damages. So to law she
went, and had the face to claim seven shil-
lings and sixpense. It made a great stir.
All the neighbors went to court. Everybody
took Sides. 1t got hotter and hott er, and
broke up all the friendships for three hun
ared Yards around friendships tina had
lasted ior generations and generations.
"Well, proved by eleven witnesses that
the cat was of low character and very
ornery, and warn't worth cancelled postage
stamp any way, taking the average Of cats
mere but | lost the case. What could |
expect The system is all wrong here, and
Is pound to make revolution and bloodshed
some day. Nou see. they give the magis-
trate poor starvation salary, and then turn
him loose on the public to gouce for fees
and costs to live on. What is the natural result
why he never looks into the Justice of the case
never once. All he looks at is which client has
got the money SO this one piled the fees,
cost and everything on to me. | could pay
specie. don't you see and he kney mighty
Wen that II he put the verdict on to Mrs.
u
his swag in currency"
Currency Why, has Bermuda A curren-
cy?" ~ ~ '''' - I''eA
ies-onions. And they were forty per
cent discount too, then, because the season
had been over as much as three months. SO |
lost my case. | had to pay for that cat. But
the general trouble the case made was the
worst thing about it. Brake up So much
good feeling. The neigbors don't speak to
each other now. Mrs. Brown had named
child after me. But she changed its name
right away. She is a Baptist. Well, in the
course of baptizing it over, it got drowned
was hoping We might get to be friendly
again, some time or other, but of course this
drowning the child knocked that all out of the
question. 1t would have saved world of
heart-brake and i'll blood if she had named
it dry
knew by the sigh that this was honest.
All this destruction of confidence in the
purity of the bench on account OF a seven
shilling law suit about a cat Somehow il
seemed to ''size" the country.
At this point We observed that an English
flag had been placed at halfmast on T. building
a hundred yards away. | and my friend
were busy IN an instant trying to imagine
whose death, among the island dignitaries,
could command such a mark of respect as
this. Then n shudder shook them ard me
at the same moment, and | knew that We
had jumped to one and the same conclusion
"Ihe governor has gone to England it is for
the British admiral -
At this moment Mr.. Smith noticed the
flag. He said with emotion
That's on boarding house. Judge
there's a boarder dead"
dozen other flags within view went to
half mast.
Its boarder sure" said Smith.
But would they half fmast the flags here for
n boarder. Mr.. Smith ?
Why, certainly they would, if he Was
dead"
That seemed to size the country again.
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