The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-04-10

Hssip' lived peI, door 10 the Hobsr,
pluce n soin' on thirty years, calc'laie
ths, tnos Jest shout as much sbon, the
case ~ sDybody elss nov on earth. except
perhaps ii's OF Jv5se Baker. aud hes Sc
plasuy old n so powerful feeble tbs, he
dont know no,hin'
/, seems that 10 the spring OF 47 the
year that Cy Watson's oldest boy was
drowprd 10 West River - there come along
book agent sellio volyumes %. trscks II
the diffusion Of knowledge; u havin' go,
the recommend oi the minister n Of the
selectmen. he done 40 all fired big bnsi
pess 10 our par, OF the county. His name
wss Lemuel Higgins n be was as likely a
tslker as ever beard. baftn' Lawyer Con
key. n every body allowed that when Con-
key was round be talked 80 fast that the
town pump . have 10 be gressed evtry
twenty minutes.
Lemuel Higgins struck was Lcauder to
bart. Leauder bsd 3, msrr'd one o. the
Pessley girls. % bad moved into The old
homestead on the Plaiuyile road -ol' Des.
con Hobart hsvin' given up the place to
him, the other boys hsyin' moved ont
West (like lot o. dsrned fools that they
wugD Lesnjer was ieelin' his oats jest
about this time, % nuthin' was too good
fr him.
Hattie, says be. guess IN have to lay
10 few books f'r resdin' In the winter
time, u I've half notion to subscribe f'r
a cyelopeedy. Mr.. Higgins here says
they're invalefable in family. aud that
we orter have 'em. bein' ss how we're like.
ly to have the fam 'ly bimehy
Lar's sskes. Leanier, how yon talk
ssys Hattie, blushin' oil over, as brides
alters does TO bearn tell Of sicb things
Waal to make long story short, Lean
der bsrgsined with Mr.. Higgins Fl set o
them cyolopeedies, n be signed bis name
to long printed paper that pbowed how
he agreed to take cyclopeedy once in so
often, which was to be as often as new
one o the volyumes was printed. A cyclo
peedy amt printed oil to once, because
that would make II cost too much; conse
kently the man that gifts itup has it strung
along fur apart, so as to hit folks once
every year or two, aud gin rally about har-
vest time. So Leander kind o liked the
ldee, aud he signed the printed paper, n
made his affidavit to it afore Jedge War
DER.
The iust volyume o the cyclopeedy
stood Oh shelf in the old seckertary in
the setiin' room about four months afore
they had any use fr it, One night Squire
Turner's son come over to visit Leander n
Hattie, n they got to taIkin' about ap
pies. n the sort OF apples that was the
best Lesnder allowed that the Rhode
Island greepin' was the best, but Hattie
N the Turner boy stuck up fr the Rox
bury russet; till at last happy idee strack
Leauder an says be. Well leave il
to the cyclopeedy. b'goshl Whichever one
the cyclopeedy says Is the best will settle
i'll
But you can't find out notEin' bout Rox.
bury russets nor Rhode Island greenins in
our cyclopeedy, says Hattie,
Why not, I'd like to know? says Lean
der, kind OF indignant like
Cause ours hsin't got down to the r yet,
says Hattie. All ours tells about is things
beginnin' with A.
well. ain We talkin' about Apples? says
You aggervate me tirrible. Hat.
tie, by insistin' on known what you don I
know uothin' bout.
Leander went to the secker.ary ~ took
down the cyclopeedy n hunted all through
Il fr Apples, but all he could find was Ap.
pie see Pomology.
How 10 thunder kin / see Pomolo2y
says Leander. when there sint no Pomol
by to SEE? Col durn cycloreedy. any.
howl
An he put the volume back onto the
shelf n never sot eyes onto it sgin.
That's the way the thing run i'r years
n years. Leander would "a gin up the
plsguy bargain. but he couldn't, he'd sign.
ID printed paper n swore to it sfore q
Justice Of the peace. Higgins would have
had the law on him il he had throwed up
he trade.
The most aggervatin' feature Of it all
vas, that new one o. them cussed cyclic
oedies was sllus sure to come at the wrong
ime, when Lesnder was bard mp or had
est been fflc,ed some way or other. His
,arn burnt down two nights afore the
'olyume contsinin' the letter b arrived
nd l. anjer needed all bis chink to pay
r umber; Int Higgins sot back on that
didsyit and de6ed the life ont Of bim.
Never min. L-snder. says his wife
o thin like, It's good book TO have in
he house, anyhow, nov that we've got =
.b,.
Tbat's SO, SAYS Lesuder. Babies does
gin with b. don't IN
Yon see their fust baby bad been born;
b y nsmsd him Peasley Peasley Hobart
after HAtties folks. &c. seem as how it
rss psyin' fr = book that told about ba
lies. Lsander didn't besredge that Eve
ollsrs so very much. after all.
Lesnder, says Hattie one afternoon.
hst b cyclopeedy ain, no accouut. There
Ia 4 nnihin' iu il about bhbirs ercept ,Sae