St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-29
Letter Few from HemIock Green.

SINGLE MILLS, VI, March &c, '88.
Mister Ed.-Dear Sur: Josh an me
maid a fool ov ourselves kerryin bilin
wattar an chopin ice to git that tur-
been wheel started, for in forty ours
thar cum a thaw that wood Il started
it ennyway. Jess so bout polyticks an
legislatin. Men thinks tina must stan
rite over the perlitykl kittle an keep
sturrin it, or els it'll bile over, or els
'twont bile at all an tina think tina
must be maxim laws all the time or els
foaks will be doin rong; an eff tina
don't perteckt mannafacters, mamma
facters'll bust up; an eff tina don't per-
teckt farmers then we can't raze per-
letters, an so on.
But waz goin ter tell We bout Jinks.
Jinks is one O. my naybers. He lives
on Sand hill just round the bend. He
never mounted to nothin an wood Il
ben in the poor house fore this eff he
hedn't spraint his nee jumpin Offn q
mule one day jes before the battle O.
big bethel, an gut a penshun fort.
He's down in the gazetteer "farmer, 90;"
an he RACES jest about huff corn an
niger wheel ter fat one pig, an the
rest o. the time he sets round an toks
polyticks. He's hi tareiff, an eff he
can git ennybuddy ter lisn tew i'm he'll
tok um blind on perteckshun.
Wal, Saturday l waz gummin out
the big saw mil an he cum along an
sat down on log an lifted his pipe an
Civ sithe an, SEE he, "Them free
traders is gittin the upper hand. THAR
gunter take off the july on aggercul-
teral prodducks, and when tina dew"
SEE he, 1--WE farmers mite ies as well
gin up"
allow much be you perteckted nOw7"
SEE L.
"Wy," SEE he, call the Ieadin agger-
culteral prOdducks is perteckted, an eff
tina warnt, we coodn't compact with
the down-trod labrers ov cannerdy, an
rooshy, an chiny; now fer instuns,"
SEE he, "thars corn, corn's taxi 10
sents a bushil."
eyes," SEE |, kinder SARCASTIC, Chow
much cOrn's yew spose this town sent
to markit fer ten year past 2"
"Wall, l Dunno" sez he.
oval, | no." SEE |, eve haint sent a
peck but cOntrarywise we bot jest
last year nintyate carloads, an we
paid Jest ten sents bushil for it more'n
we shOod eff it hadn't ben taxi. An its
les so with wheel. Wheet's taxi 20
sents; an we don't raze bushil WHARF
we by an eat3; an oats is taxi 10 sents
an the very oats you fed to your ole
mair this mornin, eff you gin her emmy,
waz RACED up in cannerdy."
EEtborc
ters"
"Pertetters," SEE I, kinder mad, 1--WE
hain't he'd a pertetter in the suller for
most a week, an can't by um at emmy
prise. Don't tOk ter me bout taxin
pertetters,"
"Wall," sez he, finerly, ave dew sell
can't deny it."
"Yis," SEE l, 1--WE dew. We sell lots
ont; an it's taxi sents per Id. More
over" SEE l, "ef you ever stop toxin
polyticks long enuf to figger up, you'll
ind that's all we de,o SELL Of emmy
count. An it mite be with while ter
consider swhuther we here in this
town can ford ter pay a big tax on ev-
rything els fer the sake Ov little tax
on butter.".
"Green," SEE he, "seems ter me you
take a mitey narrer view. You don't
take inter considrashun the wellfair ov
the hole nashun. You fergit the greet
farmin states o. the west"
"Yis," SEE 1, ~ dew. [ don't live in
minnysoty an / don't hev to take cair
ov minnysoty. An when L vote on a
mummy kweschun L amt goin to vote
fer a pollersy that'll make minnysoty
rich an ruin Single Mills"
Whuther | RELY gut new idee inter
his he'd, or whuther he gut sick o. tOk-
in with man that didn't agree with
i'm, l dunno; but Jinks gut up an
went off. So good by.
HEMLoCK GREEN.