Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-24

| SCTlDe W YOU now respectful MS man
ner is and yet always keeping his own
self-respectH And he won't quarrel with
me-he only laughs when | have been
talking absolute folly--though papa and
he have rare fights, for he has very
positive, opinions, and sticks to his guns,
thing is his education. lie has been
nowhere, but seems to know every
thing; he seems to be quite con
tent to be gamekeeper, though his
brother took his degree at college and Is
now in the Scotch Church. / tell you he
makes me feel pretty small at times. The
other night papa and | went along to his
cottage, after dinner and found him
reading Gibbons Decline and Fan of the
Roman Empilt-lent him by his brother,
| 1t appeared. ] borrowed the first volume
but oh, squawks it is a good deal too
stiff for the likes of me. And then there
is never the least pretense or show, but all
the other way. lie will talk to you as long
rs you like about his deer-s stalking and
about what he has seen his dogs do, but
never II word about books or writing,
unless you happen to have found
out.
Now Pm coming to business have
never seen any writing of his until this
morning, when, after long goading he
showed me a little poem which will copy
out and inClOse in this letter when | have
| finished. Now, darling En-, | want you
to do me a real kindness. The first time
| you see Jack Huysen-l don't want to ask
the favor of him direct-will You ask him
to print it in the citizen, and to say
something nice about it? ! don't want
any patronage Understand-I mean let
Jack Huysen understand-that Ronald
| Strang is a particular tIlcud of both NV
father and myself, and that am sending
you this without his authority, but merely
to give him little pleasant surprise per-
haps, when he sees it in print, and perhaps
to tempt him to give us some more. |
| should like him to print a yOlume-for he
is really far above his present station,
and it is absurd he should not take his
pIucc-and if he did that. | know of n
! young party who would buy five hundred
copies even if she were to 20 back home
without single Paris bonnet. Tell lack
Huysen there is to be no patronage. mind,
There is to he nothing ohout The nna.nut
poet, or anything like that for this IS man man
is a gentleman. if | know ANYTHING about
it, and WON'T have him trotted out as a
phenomenon to be discussed bv the dudes
who smoke cigarettes in Lincoln Park. If
you could only talk to him for ten Minutes
it would be better than fifty letters; Int /
suppose there are uttIrirtjouS ncGrrr
homie inst at present NV kind remem-
brances to r. r.
CT forgot 70 saw that 7 am anita il,ro-
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and easily Bnt if talk any moro abomt
him. Won will he MAXIM ycrv ,'' ,,iru n,is'
talon Tnassas onh 7 ,'o,t ~, i ~
deIigbf of imagining evem fa ~ , nov ent
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of the snace and that she was minpmte In
her desrrintion of tho incidantn nnd ax w
element of salmon. fl binc Than fnIlow-
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Aiu .iieI eiie na'i W copy me verses
nou WIEN shc iad uoite sha' ana r,sell' ana
sone 10 tne WINDOW loT tlhle some MS
returned to the table and sat down ayain
and wrote this nostscrirt. e'
perhaps, after all, you won see much
IN TINS little piece II you were here among
the very places, and affected by all the
old stories ana romantic traditions and the
via scenery, II might be different. since
I've been TO Europe I've come to see
What the trouble about our readluS
En9llsh history ana literature at nome;
why, you can dolt; you can understand
IL, unless you have lived in an atmosphere
that Is lust full OF poetry ana romance,
ana meeting people whose names tell you
tHcH pcloli- 10 lhe lalllIlcS VINO ulu great
things III history centuries and centuries
ago. can't explain 1t very Well-not
even to myself; but | feel it. Why, you
can take single days drive IN england
without coming across a hundred things
OF lnterest-Norman churches. and the
tomos OF saxon kings. ana old abbeys, and
monasteries, and battle fields, and, just
"a "a fnr hn1 of hn