The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-07

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day vest, and the rest hit the milk
pal, and the cow backed against the
fence and bellerel, and the deacon was
all covered with milk and cow hair,
and he got up and throwed the three
legged stool AT the cow and hit her on
the horn, and it glanced off and hit me
on the pants just as l went over the
fence to feed the pigs. | didn't know
a deacon could talk so sas y at a COW
and come so near swearing without
actually saying cuss words. Well, L
lugged swill until l was homes ok to
my stomach, and then 1 hadto clean off
horses and go to the neighbors about
a mile away to borrow a lot of rakes
to use the next day. L was so tired L
almost cried, and then l had to draw
two barrels of water with a we'll
bucket to cleanse for washing the next
day, and by that time L wanted to die.
1t was most 9 o'clock, and 1 began to
think about supper, when the deacon
said all they had was bread and milk
for supper Sunday night and l
rasseled with a tin basin of skim
mix and some old back number
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the deacon wanted to know if | was
heather enough to want to go to bed
without evening prayers. There was
one thing l wa less mashed on than
evening prayers about that minute,
but had t. take a prayer half a hour
long on top of that skim-milk, and L
guess it curdled the milk, for l hadn't
been in bed more than half q hour be-
fore l had the wort collie a boy eve
had, and L thought L should die all
alone up in that garnet, on the floor,
with nothing to make my last hours
pleasant but some rats playing with
ears of seed corn On the floor, and mice
running through some dry pea pods.
But, oh, how different the deacon
talked in the evening Gevotions from
what he did when the COW was gallop-
ing IN him in the barn yard. Well, 1
got through the collie and was just get
ting to sleep when the deacon yelled
for me to get up and hustle down.
stairs. l thought maybe the house
was on fire, cause 1 smelled smoke,
and 1 got into my trousers and came
downstairs on a jump, yelling fire
when the deacon grabbed me and told
me to get down on my knees, and be-
fore l knew it he was into the morn
ing devotions, and then he said amen
and jumped up and said for us to fire
br akfast into us quick and get to work
doing the chores. L looked at the clock
and it was just 3 o'clock in the
morning, just the time pa comes home
and goes to bel in town, when he is
running a political campaign. We'll,
sir, l had to jump from one thing to
another from 3 o'clock in the morning
till nine at night, pitching hay, driving
reaper, raking and binding, shocking
wheat, hoeing corn, and everything,
and 1 never got a kind word. Ispoiled
my clothes. and l think another week
would make a pirate of me.
"Now, you take these cabbages and
give me ninety cents, and l will go
home and borrow ten cents to make
up the dollar, and send my chum back
with the horse and wagon and my
resignation. / was not cut out for a
farmer. Talk about fishing, the only
fl h | saw was a sat white fish we had
for breakfast one morning, which was
sailed by Noah, in the ark" and while
the grocery mar was unloading the
~Cabbages the boy went out to look for
his chum, and later the two boys were
seen driving off toward the farm with
two fish poles sticking out Of the hind
end Of the wagon.-Peck'S san.