The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-02-26
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bt'll drive yon over lies nice iiiu'
fellow. aud Dc&coo Ban lets hiu hsve BIZ
team ior tribe, ard ws Ike 70 get hin :
JOB wteu ve can. -.
j, whsa 30, dsy IN Jaiy Awsy uT
amoog TIE Mi thaf make the lower
slope sf the Monsdnoek monutaiu, !
frisBd was very li Ia order 20 reach
BIZ temporary boue one ms, take 80
early ,fAia 10 tie nearest. ststiou. and
trust 10 ,hs latnbsring Old dusty coach
that made daily lHp 10 K-n, The
train was lAtei re sisge after waiting
some -tims, was eoOe. The laadiVtd. Of
The little white botei appeared 10 hs shirt.
sleeves, sud eaning bis elboN oa lha
bs4eouy rail, dropped dswn upon ,he bot
and ihirsty uayeier what comfort eould
Fbeexnscicsi from the opening sentence
Of my sketch
4 Noald-ve not come 10 aud have some
dinner2 Yes, Would be send for The
deseons team Yes Aud The boy
/ Yes.
Aud The dinner wasrAteb Nnd Ei,e team
cane rouaa -sa open hnegS And ~ old
white horse, aud Just as ws'wep seated
the door oi a latls brown house over The
WAY opened, and out ruSbedstbe s"wia-
der's boy a
| Ia his meuth was the lssttnursel Of his
dihntr be bad evidently learned how to
eat aud run. Ills feet were clad Ia inst
wiuter's much worn boots, whose wrink-
! led Jegs refused to stay within the limits
o. bis narrow and faded trousers. As
bis legs hew forward bic arms new back
| ward 10 sn aeiIeclual,strugge TO gel him.
self inside ots jackets much too snort IN
/ the sleeves.
| There be is, said the hostlcr, that's the
Widder Beebe's boy told him | would
4 bold The deaoon's horse while be went
4 bone TO get bite.
! The borsc did not look to me as If ho
needed to be held, but The hostIergo his
dime, and the boy approached intime 10
relieve my mind as to whether be would
Sonaaer lbe jacket or the jacket would
conquer him and turn him wrong side
out. s
He was sunburned and fFeekled, large
mouthed and red hsired-ahomol plaiu /,
patched little YsnA zee boy; and yet, as
we rode through the deep summer bloom
aud fragrance OF the summer road, wind
ing up the long bills in the glow Of the
afternoon suu, learned such a lesson
from that little fellow at my side as ]
shall not soon forget.
he did not look much like preacher
as be sat STOPPING forward little, wbisk.
ing the fies from the deacon's horse, but
bis sermon was one which ! wish might
have been heard by all The boys in the
land. AS il was, bad TO spur him on
now and then by questions 10 get him to
tell all about himself.
My father died, you see, aud left my
mother the little brown house opposite
the tavern, You see it, didn't you, sir
the one with the lilac bushes under the
window? Father wassick long time,
and when he could not work he had TO
raise money on the house. Deacon Ball
let him have IL, little at time, and
when father was gone mother found the
money owed was almost three hundred
dollars.
AT first she thought she would have to
give up the house, but the deacon said'
Let it wait awhile, and he turned and
patted me on the head and said, When
Johnny gets big enough TO earn somes
thing, / shsil expectshim to pay i. Twas
only nine then, but I'm thirteen now; |
remember It, and remember how moth
eEicried and said Yes, deacon, Johnny is
my only hope nov; end w0ndered and
woudered what work coaId do.R Treat
~ felt az i'll Ought 10 begin ~ ODee, and
vel could not think Of auytbiag % do,
Well. what did you dor asked quickly,
for ! was afraid te would stop, and |
wanted 10 hear the rest.
Well, at fifst ,iidvery NA9ly thihgs
for a boy. Mother used to kuit socks TO
cell, aud she tewed the rags 10 mske rag
carpets, aud helped.
How? What could You do?
We'll, the people who would Ike a car.
pet could not always get the time to make
il. So went TO lhe houses among the
farmers, aud took home their rags, old 1
costs, aud everything theg bad, aud out
10 the wood shed, ripped and cut them
up. Thea mother sewed them, and some
times sewed some, TOO, aud then
rolled them into balls sBd took them
back 10 the owners, ready TO be woven
into rugs.
But did they pay for your work.
Oh, yes we got 80 much pound, and
used 10 feel quite ike merchan, when
| weighed them out myself with our old
steelyards. Bat that was only one way
we've two or three old apple Trees ont In
the back yard by the wall, and we dried
the spples snd sold them; then some OF
ths farmers who bad a good many apples
began to send theu to us TO dry, and we
psld them 30 many pounds all dried and
bad the rest to sell.
Bot yon surely could not DO much in
ways like these
No, not much, bat something; and we
bad The knittiug.
Did you kuilg
Not at fra bat after a while mother
began TO have the rheumatism In her
bands, sud the joih,s became swooleu and
the fingers twisted, and Il hurt her to
move them Then learned to knit; he.
fa.. ,h.t I sgwavs nsed 10 wind ihe warn