Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

"No, thir.n
"Sure, Samm
"Thure.n
Sam was Sambo's child. The two faced
one another with expanded optics, their
mutually delighted souls shining out of
their ebony surroundings, and responsive
ly grlnning like two pumpkin lanterns out
If the shadows of the night.
Sam seized the rope of his sled and
pulled ii down Pearl Street. 1t was II
yellow piece Of handwork, each of It's
two runners gay and frightful also with
an immense red dragon. 1t is needless TO
say til t it Was the effort of that celestial
Mtist, Chung Foo, sometimes laundry
man, Pearl street. The work had been
done to square up Chung's candy account
at Sambo shop.
dat am II Iub'y boy said Sambo,
gazing after Sam.
Nature had given Sam head and II
body suggestive of II big drum mounted
on another drum IL good deal bigger, ami
his legs were short, stout, and drum like
also. If he had laid down upon the side
walk, he could have rolled down hill
much faster than he could have walked.
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Chung Foo squeezed his drowsy little
eyes together Is he grinned one day, and,
declaring his love for The " Melicnn flag. :"
proposed that these rooms should be call
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cold than bv the lrmonaao glasses in Sam
bos window when June appeared, and the
candy tray us September sunshine disaD.
peartd.
Salnbo was proud of his lemonade. 1t
& w,s NJ I'l'is rhi g lo @ TH ;tI P,Uu" o' g. n,>
o,'i"S nr ~ ,u - t,'3,'"'o, "'' w.
,'..,,-,' ''f "f US PI,' n.i.| ,'i,''
bcinr he could claim as relative. As he
was sitting by the stove one day, the onery
came to him what should he do if the
"lippertherv should come and snatch
hi, beloved S.m out of the world. At the
very thought he wept profuseIy. When
fairly put 20 it Sambo could =, weep a
heap ~
1t was this child of Stmbo now going
down the street, close,v resembling the
duck tribe in his gait. The coasting
ground was IL little risky. 1t was in The
immediate neghborhooi of boy enemy
3ildy OTooles. She had been so much
.,nuoyed bv the b,vs as their sleds b,nU.,I
-auninst her f,,pc,.' and had received So
many snow.balls from their careless
hands wh.n h,noing ant her rIo,hns !. .hn
ran a laundry, hat she onIy waited =
favorable opportunity to let an explosion
drive atong under ihn whole line of th,.
bows Mur,lerous Guy Fawkes WAS in
the plump face of Biddy O'roolcs.
B'ddy Orooles's gate was omen the
morning of our story. u fact noticed bv
her arch. enemy, Pompey Jones. He was
sprv as n cat, sly rs Il fox. and slipnerv ~
an eel. In his moral perceptions' he wa,
almost as obruse AS those animals Pomp
was Il great marksman. No boy ut n roll
rould non off more bird. from the street
telporaph wire. No bow conld send \
stone more neatly through Biddy O'Tooles'
attic window. like n bee to his hole, or
a bullet to the bulrs eve. went the mis-.
,ilps of Pomuev ,Jones. He now made ;,
vrovosltion 10 sam, ut the same time civ.
inc a sly wink 10 The other boy.coaslers,
",,mmc. how are vep Want to arm
two cents ie>t holdin' on to YER sled nnd
bnyin' a ridep There. Won tnrn round
and sit 60 h,rk ,n Ihe fr9nt Of var a. sled -"
he added drnnning On the h.cts of III.
,,y, rod dr.o,ns :. -, sa .ad lIl