The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-06-07

eatslAFpers or bis plng bat when De wen
10 meeting 10 winter. He was slssyi
ready 10 argue that tb-s. modern time
we're swfully bad. and that the good old
times of . hundred years ago we're jos
right He you'd decry invention and i'm
pro,emeut and say that the world would
bc brtier viibont them He took news
paper on purpose 10 count the murders re
corded 10 !, and tell how bad the world
had grovn He would stand for hours on
a corner 10 the village aud retail his de
ductions on the present and bis regret,
for the past
oae day be whipped the minister 10 or
gnment. and ~ he had had bis dinner and
the minister bad gone away mad and the
women we're at work 10 the kitchen. he
tipped back in his chair. drew . led silk
handkerchief ever his head TO keep of the
flies and vent 10 sleep. He bad not slept
over FIVE minutes before his son John
came in and said:
Come, father, We must get at that
piece OF wheat and cut it.
Blewitt got up and yswned and follow
ed his son to the bsrnysrd, where bis two
sons sat on log fling couple OF sickles
what in the patton are you doing with
those old sickles 2" said Blewitt.
One OF the boys looked asionisbed and
said: "Doin' Why. we are getting
ready to cut the wheat
Blewitt stared minute and then said
"Why in thunder don't you stop foolin'
with them sickles and hitch on to that
reaper ?"
The boys looked at each other in sur
prise, but said nothing. Blewitt ran to
the shed, but there was no reaper there.
He came back. The boys had got over
the fence and were on their knees resping
the wheat and carrying it in gsvels.
Boys" said Blewitt. "wbat do you
mean by this foolishness Where is that
reaper ?"
Charlie the second boy, looked at his
father pityiugly, and then tapped his fore.
head and looked over TO John, who nod
ded and looked sad
"Why, darn it, said Blewitt, ''you can
never run them bundles through thrash.
ing machine.
"Thrashin' machine" said Charley;
"why, you know IS we'll as do that i
shall have tc fail wheat out nights and
MORNINGS while going TO school this win
ter What sils you, father ?"
Blewitt, as we said, got mad very easily
and now he just bopped up and down and
said:
Flail it out 1t must be thrashed ready
to ship on the cars next month"
"Cars. cars, said John. Il don't know
what ails you. father. or what you mean.
| know shall have TO team this wheat
down to Albany and sell it for what it will
bring. Here you come out tslkin' about
respers and cars and thrsshin' machines,
and dsrned il l don't believe you are crazy
% now"
B.esitt pinched himself to see il he
was awake and strobe angrily to the house.
As be approached it he heard rumbling
and roaring like wind. aud he looked into
the kitchen and there was his wife spin
ming. Whoo.o went the big wheel and
Blewitt sank into chair and Yelled
snow, Maria. what under the canopy
are you doin' ?"
"Doin' ?" said his wife, why spinnin
OF course must get out forty yards OF
fullcloth for you and the boys. and twenty
yards OF pressed flannel for me and the
gals"
Dewitt looked down at his legs and saw
ure, and the seat OF hrs trousers be felt
rea0ked clear up TO his shoulder blades,
sud the iegs we're as vide as two -bushel
sacks
well, III be darned," WAS all be said
Dr.amily be ssuntered ont again to the
wheat field and John hailed him.
Father, il you aint goin' to help cut
the wheat suppose you yoke the oxen and
20 up to the woods and draw draft or
two OF logs for wood.
Blewitt was composed. but be said Il
bad intended 10 burn coal in the sitting
room pnd psrlor, and not cut much wood
Goal, cosl r. said JOHN. sugrily. NOW
80 here. fsther. don't want any more
oo,;s,s talk. I'm goio to get doctor.
Rleu IL b,gan to think be needed one
;mseIf Here his boys bad never heard
. reape, ar . threasbipg machine or cars
Ia fsl, Of i y fnil- cloth pants and srosn
A oo In. oxnee at the house be laid
imseIf down snd tried to calmly thiuk
hioos over !. 'bel tue doctor came be
allied for pail ed ba1sd Blewit,s arm
He took on, bis soes. aud then BleWii'
rosned sRsin.
II mus, take a gall IN of blood. said
be doctor and thea he will esl@ dosn all
ight. Ill
Don't you know bleedia' sss played
ut iifty years ago p said Biesi't.
.How he wanders. said the doctor. and
lang ed in bis lancet Blewitt tainted
When be came 10 himself be heard one OF
he girls tslki.g about an artist down 10
he village who took profile pictures with
spindle as natural as life.
"wha. do you want OF such blamed
;r,ures ss that p said Biewitt from The
nnge. why don't you go down 10
,skeua' . st All suy aud get photogrsphs'
photographs. said the whole family
What funny names he gets of In bis
rxy fancy"
Bic witt Was too weak 10 argue, ani he
canned 70 be somehow out OF sympathy
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