Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-03-08

be hanged IL one didn't set there on tn,
back stoop, lookin' down the road tina
led to Jone sville, as close as u cat would
watch a rat-hole.
l went back to my room again, wor'
out and depressed, and l wished JOSIAH
would come. peeked out Of the wlnde
toward the barn, to see II could sc,
him, and happenin' to cast my eye dow
toward the ground, l see one of his boot
stick out little ways from under tn,
barn; then l see that he had got as IA
as the barn before he see 'em, and thel
he hid. | knew there wouldn't be nj
gettin' him into the house till the enemy
had dispersed, but yet 1t was satisfac
tion to know that my companion was Sc
near to me.
Wal, they never went away, so JOSIAH
could come out of his fiidin,place, md
could get supper, till shutdown, and
had to get supper and Josiah had to mill
after dark. And says Josiah, as we wal
eatin' supper after bedtime
"Samantha, as for standin' it so much
longer, l can't, and won't. It's a-run.
MIN you down, and l am spilin' my
clothes a-crawlin' under that barn sc
much, to say nothin' of film my hair
and mouth with dirt, and straw, and
feathers" He helped himself agin ia
the cherry pie, and says, with gloomy
expression onto his face, "There has got
to be change"
"How is there going to be changer"
says l.
"I'll tell you, says he, In a whisper,
for fear some on 'em was prowlin' round
the house yet. "We will get up before
light tomorrow mort In, and go to Jones'
vile and buy a organ right out"
l fell in with the idee, and we started
for Jonesville the next mornin'. We got
there jest after the break of day, and
bought it of the man to the breakfast
table. Says Josiah to me afterward, as
we was goin' down into the village,
"Let's keep dark about buying one,
and see how many of the creeters will
be a-besettin' on US to-day"
Says 1. "You must love to be haunted
by 'em better than do T."
Says he, "I'd love to fool 'em."
Says l, sit is jest about such foolin' as
the little boy done that let his father
whip him through mistake, jest to fool
his father" But seein' that my COM
panion looked disappointed, told him
that sit wasn't my way to tell every
thing I knew. l shouldn't say nothin'
about havin' bought one."
So we KEEP still, and there was half-a.
dozen fellers follerin' US round all the
time Almost, into stores and groceries,
and the manty-maker's. And they would
stop US on the sidewalk, and argue with
US about their organs and pianos. One
Teller, tall slim chap, he never let Jo-
siah outen his sight minute. and he fol-
lowed him after he went after his horse,
and walked by the side of the wagon,
clear down to the store where l was,
all the way about his piano.
Josiah had bought number of things,
and left 'em to the store, and when we
got there, there stood another one, the
by the side Of the things,
just like watchdog. He knew Josiah
would have to come and get 'em, and he
could get the last word with him.
Amongst other things, Josiah had
bought barrel of salt, and the piano
Teller that had stuck to Josiah so tight
all day offered to help Josiah on with it.
And the organ-man, not going to ba out.
done by the other, he offered too. Josiah
kinder winked to me, and then he held
the old mare, and let 'em lift. They
wasn't used to such kind of work, and
it fell back on 'em once or twice, ana
most squshed 'em; but they hipped to,
aud lifted agin, and, finally, got it on.
But they was completely tuckered out.
And then Josiah got in, and thanked
'em for the liftin', and the organ-man,
a-wipin' the sweat often his face, that
had started out in his hard labor, said he
'sshould be down tomorrow mornin' o.;
and the piano-man, a pantin' for breath,
told Josiah mot to make up his mind
till he came. He should be down that
night, if he got rested enough"
Aud then Josiah told 'em that che
should be glad to see 'em down a-visitin'
any time; but he had jest bought a
organ"
| don't know but what they would
have laid holt of Josiah, if they hadn't
been so tuckered out; but as il was, they
was too beat out to look ANYTHING but
sneakin'. And so we drove off.
The mantymaker had told me that day
that there was 2 or new agents with
new kinds of machines jest come to
} onesville, and / was Jest a-tellin' Josiah
on it, when we met middle-aged man,
and he looked at US pretty close, and,
finally, he asked us, as he went by US,
'sif we could tell him where Josiah Allen
lived"
Says Josiah, 81 am alvin at present
in this one-horse wagon"
Says he, "You are thinkin' of buyin'
a SEWN machine, haint your"
''Says Josiah, 81 am a-turnin' my mind
that way"
At that the man turned his horse
round, and followed US, and see that he
had sewin' machine in front Of his
wagon.
Our old mare had colt, and SEEM a
strange horse come up SO cluss behind
US, it started the colt up, and abe kicked
up her heels, and started off full run
toward Jonesville, and then run down
a cross-road, and into lot.
Says the man behind US, 81 am little
younger than you be, Mr.. Allen. If you
will hold my horse, will 60 after the
colt, with pleasure"
Josiah was glad enough, and so he got
into the feller's wagon; but before he
started off, the man, says he, "You can
look at that machine in front of you
while am gone. l tell you, frankly.
that there haint another machine equal
to it in America. 1t requires no strength
at all; infants can run it for days at 8
time; idiots; if anybody knows enough
to set and whistle, they can run this
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