News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
A GUARDIAN ANGEL.
BY SAM SLICK.

"Patty," sais I, "you are generous
to say You won't forget me, but you
feel more grateful on account of your
pretty boys than yourself. You see
light breakin' ahead already for them
don't be offended. 1 know you will for
get both me and my name, too"
"Never, never" said she, with great
emphasis "never, as long as I live.
What makes you think SO meanly of
me? think you have been guardian
angel sent by Providence.
Well, repeated them words, ''guard-
ian angel" slow.
"The very same" said I. "How
strange were You Patty Schneider ?"
eyes, sir" she said.
GA guardian angel, sent by Provi-
dence," said I. Exactly that's the
very words he said you used. It's a
favorite word of yours; and yet you
forgot him.
"Forgot who, sir I? It's false ac-
cusation? Forgot who, sir? Pray do
tell me?"
WE'LL" sais I, 81 was in England
last year, ard there 1 met a man who
told me capital story about you. He
larfed ready to kill himself"
Il am much obleeged to him, am
sure, she said, with toss of her head;
che is welcome to his good story. Who
was he, the impident fellow ?"
"He said he was travelling once on
the Darlington road, some years ago
now, in his wagon, with fast trotting
horse he had. IT was lonely part of
the road, and woman mistook him for
a doctor, and called to him to stop and
advise her about her children, one had
just died of scarlet-fever, and two
others were dangerously i'll. Well,
while he was talking to the poor woman,
one of the most beautiful girls he ever
laid his eyes on. passed by on foot. A
real clipper-tall, straight, well built,
perhaps overly tall, plump as a part
ridge, eyes like snappin' turtle, teeth
like ivory, lips like"
"Well, never mind her lips. Who was
she, tell me quick?"
"Stop," sais i, "till I get this
plaguey knife open, can't talk unless
l whittle. Her lips were So"
'tNever mind her lips"
"Well, her neck and bust"
'Well, never mind them who was
that gal /? Who did he sayP think I
know what he is at now."
"'Who is that splendiferous gal p"
said he.
"He didn't say no such thing" she
replied "them is embellishments of
your own"
THAT, sais she, lis Patty Schneider,
the darter of old Capting Schneider, Of
Roseway, the most sponsible man in
these parts.
swell, arter he had instructed the
poor critter, the best way he could
what to do about her children-for he
was a man that, by travelling about
everywhere, had picked up little oi
everything amost-and encouraged hel
the best way he could, he proceeded OF
his journey ard as he was ioggin' on
he thought to himself, how in the worlC
did that beautiful young lady get across
them places in the swamp where the
water covers the road, without wettin
her shoes and stockings? She mus
have taken them of, and waded as thu
snipes do"
'I didn't do no such thing" she said
"Oh, dear oh, dear To think | should
have been talked of in that way by tina
feller. It's too bad, declare, and sh'
rested her elbows on her knees, and pu
her hands to her face. $50 on" sh'
said, "what else did he say ?"
"Well," he said, carter a while h
heard the screams of a woman in dis
tress, and he pushed on, and he saw
head and bonnet stickin' out of the bog
And when he came up, the water wa
across the road; and it appeared tn
young woman that had passed som
time afore, in tryin' to cross on falle,
tree that ley there, had slipped Of, an,