Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-01

thought much and SAID little, and Lurana, or
Jury as her nnmo was generally given, a
mischievous, self-willed little imp, the delight
and torment Of her worn-out mother Young
Amasa was a boy quite beyond his fathers
understanding rs soon as ho was old enough
/ he began to help his mother in every way he
/ could devise And when his term at the vii
/ lage school was over, to his fathers great dis.
| gust he trapped squirrels and gathered nuts
! enough to earn him money and subscribe for
an agricultural paper, which he studied every
/ week till its contents were thoroughly stored
in his head Then began that mobile discon.
| tent which the philosophers praise.
| The elder man had no peace in his old
world ways; the sloppy waste OF the barn
| yard was an eyesore to this book learned
| feller, as his father derisiyely called him.
Aud the ashes of the wood fire were saved
and sheltered like precions dust, instead Of
| thrown into big heap to odify the wander
ing hens. That desolato garden was powed,
! fortified and set in order at last and the
! great ragged orchard manured, the apple
trees thinned and trimmed, and ashes sown
thick over the old mossy sod. Now these
things were not done in day or year, but
as the boy grew older and more able TO cope
with his fathers self fconceit more was done
annually, not without much opposition and
many hard words, but still done.
Then came heavy blow. Lurana a girl
Of l5, fresh and pretty as wild rose, and
tired OF the pinching economy, the monoton
GUS work and grinding life of the farm, ran
away with tin peddler and broke her moth
er's heart; not in the physical sense that
hearts are sometimes broken but the weary
womaus soul was set on this bright, win
some child and her life lost all its scant saw
'or when the blooming face and clear young
voice left her forever.
Il don't blame her none, Amasey," she
Bobbed out to her boy, now stout fellow of
%, raging at his sisters folly. 81 cant feel
to blame her, know It's more'n a girl can
bear to live this way I've he'd to- but it's
been dreadful hard-dreadful hard I've
wished more'n once l could ha' laid down
along with the little babies out there on the
hill, SOS to rest spell but there was you
and Lury wauted me, aud 50 my time hadn't
| come
"Amasey you're man grown now, and If
YOU should get married, and | s pose you will
men folks seem to think itsneedtul whether
or no-do kinder make it easy for her, poor
cretnr! Don't grind her down to skin and
bone, like me-, dear tA'nt just right, I'm
sure ont, never to make no more of a woman
| than ef she Was horned critter don't do
! it,
Mother, never will, " answered the son,
rs energ"tically and solemnly as though he
were taking his oath.
! But Wealthy was nearer to her rest than
| size kucw; the enemy that turks in dirt, neg
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