Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-08-06
NOTICE.
ONE DOLLAR FINE n ALL
DAMAGE DONE BY DRIVI
NC ANY TEAM FASTER
THAN A WALK OR NOPE
THAN TWENTY HEAD OF
CATTLE AT ONE TIME A
CROSS THIS BRIDGE

When the travellers had sufficiently re
hected upon the etymology of the motto,
the hrst subject of conversation with tn,
aSeu dllNer was the capacity of ms stage
W nat do You do when you have Tire,
or Tour passengers - was asked
on, three or tour passengers ?: tx
claimed the driver, incredulouS of such ,
| possibility. II hardly ever have any pas.
sengers at all. All this week Hnd 1t wa,
| saturday only earn ten cents 'crDt fol
carrying The mail. Woman paid me fer
cent for CARRYING bundle Only had one
/ passenger all summer on Buck Hollow
| line" -'0'''"
Pm old man now" continued the
| driver. IF | young again not be driv
my stage for two dollar 50 cent week
lhat not enough to keep horse but VIVA,
can do - he inquired philosophicallv.
.Oid man like me can't work on farm like
young man."
you are really 90 years old. then are
you ~ '' ~ :
40 Yes, sir; | born in st. Hyacinthe, Can,
~ year ago. Ny father, he Indian, live
to be 10 year old. He die A. year ago"
Longevity seems to be distinguishing
tralt OF your family
Don know bout that, but we live
old. My father, he hunter. When little
boy he take me, out hunting, and good
many times he leave me two DAYS in snow
he see moose track, and tell me wait till
ne come back. lie. down in snow and
walt II he not come back that day |
wait; II he not come back next dav wait
i not dare disobey and | not know way
nome. All | have TO eat few crackers.
but when he come back he bring hid
piece moose. He eat moose raw and
blood run down his face, but no be able
eat meat raw. He tell me eat it, but |
1',in nre ana COOK 1t. Oh, it was cold,
lying IN the snow ~
But didn't your father ever forget
where he had left you, or lose the way
back ~ wy
"Oh, no He go 40, so mile from home
IN woods and never lose his way. And
Whel he see moose track he sometime not
follow the track, but go off 500 and the
old man indicated direction at right an.
giles with the course taken by the moose
pretty soon hear gun and then | know
get some moose to eat
During the drive the mail carrier sat
with the mail bag for cushion, and when
the conversation turned upon the suh- |
Ject of mail bags and their fasteninps the |
driver betrayed lively suspicion that his |
passenger might be highway robber mar
TALLY disguised, Thereupon, for the sake |
of its moral effect, he told story of the
IN which he once disposed of a
Would-be- highwayman.
II was driving TO Buck Hollow he
said, and when | came to a place in
woods man he jump out and told me
stop. He caught the horse an said he
mail bag, but | put my hand in
my pocket and said if he didn't let 90 I'd
give him something else besides mail bag.
and then just whip my horse and he get
left. The man he was drunk" said the
driver in an explanatory tone. "If he not
be drunk he not want mail bag on that
route, he added in contemptuous man
ner, as If the mails would not be yalua
bic where It was worth only 81. 80 a week
TO carry them over two routes
In addition to his duties as carrier of
the mails between post Office and post
office Mr. Root also acts as letter carrier
Tor few families who live along the line
Of his daily travel. At one such house he
stopped, and when the lady of the house
responded to his call he lifted his hat
with as much apparent poiteness as If he
we're Frenchman from Paris. The
movement was better understood by the
ady of the house, however, for she simply
aid, Good morning, Joe" and took from
he extended hat letter which had found
restlng-place there.
Joseph Root has driven the Firfax and
Nestford stage, according TO his own
tory, for 80 years, and before that had
riVen stages in the vicinity of Burliug- I
on and OF Bedford in this State.