Connecticut western news., 1882-10-04
Letter to The News.
EAST CANAAN. Sept

EAST CANAAN, Sept, 1882.
 DEAR EDITOR The teacher thought l ought to write suthin for your paper, and mother said she guessed I could write as good letter as any of em around here. She said if I would jest hint around about the neighbors, or the meeting house folks, or suthin, it would take about as well as anything amongst some of em, and dad said certainly, cause he said if folks don't know nothin thereselves, they can generally think of suthin mean to say about somebody, and then they can get folks to notice em, cause there is lots of folks in the world that don't want nothin only to be noticed. But .the teacher said I hadn't better say nothin mean about anybody, cause then they'd want to say suthin back, and then I'd want to say suthin more, and then everybody would get kinder tired of it and wish I'd git dead, and don't want to be dead, cause they aint no fun in bein noticed if your dead. 1 guess don't want hornets to notice me any more. I guess you didn't know there was a big hornets nest under the meeting house sheds, did you Wall, I know 1t, cause I've been there, me and two other fellers went in jest as we alters do, and fore we had time to think much about 1t seven hundred and forty-six hornets came out to see us so dredful sudden that I guess the other two fel- lers would swore some if their dads hadn't been perfessers. I heard one of em say gingerbread right out plain, but l aint goin to say nothin about it. If it hadn't been fer one thing I'd laughed right out, but didn't want to laug ugh, cause felt kinder sad in several places myself. Dad said he guessed them was all influential workin members that severed their connection with the nest jest to give us fits. We hadn't done nothing neither, only jest stood up there and said we didn't like hornets, But dad says the only way to git along with hornets is to set right down and never do nothin, cause if you stir around or say much, dad says, they'll | all be afraid you are big bumblebee, or suthin, and hornets don't like bum- blebees cause bumblebees mind their own business makin honey for their little ones. and for other little bugs and things that is hungry and aint got nothin to eat, but hornets cant do nothin only buzz and sting. Dad says he never know'd hornet to die. lam sorry the | hornets are so near the meetin house, cause what if one should git into mothers bonnet some Sunday, and mother should be sick, I should have to stay to home. Dad says it would come kinder hard on them that was left to carry on the regular meetins. But the teacher said jest as smart folks as me and mother had had hornets in their bon nets, and ln other places, and the sun rose and sot jest as usual, and the folks had meetins, and hired preachin done, and fixed up their meetin houses, and done it easy, too, and acted kinder like christians generally, and was prosper ous and happy. And after the teacher had got all through dad told him he bleved he lied. Mother says it is time to go to school, now, so I will stop. I study Latin and Greek this term. I finished English last term, the teacher said. If you like this pretty well, I'll write somethin about wasps, they is similar to the hornet in some respects, dad says. Pzzrrus soRatfAa1, sR.