The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-12-30

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loss of her hus bands affection md ANY
amount of collateral sorrow and mls-
fortune, She says her grandmother
Away, used TO quo TO htr' Pat Fl
The day, you'll he sorry Away" and
she's known it actually TO happen, two
or three times. She thinks her wloIe
life il blasted"
"And 80 it is, if she thinks so"
spoke up the tai lean man, trumpmg
The wrong &c, or committing some
other card atr4cjty that made his part
ner y,l out as if he had had his pct
corn mallreated. 6" AS man thinkelh
so is e but as a woman thiukeih -
Who knows what any woman
thinketh2 asked his partner, who was
the eweet-faced wOman's husband.
Do you want to make the spirit OF
Hoy descend into his grave and turn
the ody Over2 Lead a small trump,
can't your"
Pm in no condition to play cards."
replied the til man, sadly though good
nsluredy, rising from his seat. "Some.
body else must take my place. My
wedding was postponed one"
"Tell us all about it, please"
:, M 'olI. ,,,,ll ,ho,,it s,onios o,,
oe,srall, hnresn ronli1d tbe man,
= and tSis one ,yo,,.d he ~, ,,nir,,'
ont A.. 500 the do,cond mi, of a6s;en1
and mighty r me WELD modern
American shovel" AID we saw no
more of him that day.
lie
I'm The evening we h'd d very ood
supper our j epIu9 car, w.tI IT'S
"uvh q n! .H3~ cueef as we coui +
gather. The porter ld. waited on
ws peculiarly Zoo hlell aat amiub.a
m mhef Ji ihe fraternity. auo gave as
food end iniorma on in 8feraa
courses. H. informs among other
.hlus-, ina. me storm vas mOre 20"
iul than ever; mat the great question
OF the afternoon mad seemed TO be 40
whether the Italians would be able to
shovel the snow out OF lhe cur, but
whether the snow would be able to
bury the Italians; and that it would
probably be morning again before the
additional force of men and locomo
tives were able to dig us out-longer if
the storm increased much.
The tail gaunt man had disappeared,
and we asked our porter what had be-
come of him. He replied that Lower
Nine, as he called him, had been doing
very curious thing. He had gone up
to the young lady who was crying in
the front passenger car, whispered a
few words in her ear, frightened her
up considerably, sent to the sleeper for
his overcoat, gloves and arctics, and
then started out into the snow and cold.
He had come back in the course of
an hour, looking, as near as we could
make out from the description, like an
animated snow man from somebody's
front yard.
With him were four strong young
farmers, and they all burrowed their
way to the car in which was the young
lady. They wrapped her up carefully
in blankets that they brought along,
and started with her up out into the
open. One of the farmers told a brake
man who rendered little stray assist
ance on the occasion, that four strong
horses and cutter" had been en-
gagged to draw the girl to Independence;
and the tall gaunt man was escorting
her.
We all drank the Lower Mines health,
gave him three cheers in his absence,
and wished him pleasant ten mile
drive.
We were wrenched from our white
fastenings next morning, and passed
through Independence at nine A. NJ. AS
we looked out of the frosty windows, we
discovered that the whole town had
come to the station TO see the tall gaunt
man to the train! He was the center OF
crowd running up into the hundreds,
in spite of all the frost and snow; a
brass band was playing =" Hail to the
Chief" cheer after cheer went up from
the crowd as it babe him goodbye; and
the bride, whose face was now a very
pretty garden of smiles, kissed him the
last thing before he boarded the train.
OF course we received Lower Nine
with bursts of enthusiasm, and made
him tell US the whole adventure. " 1T
was trip through the ArIic regions"
mercury was twenty degrees pe'o"
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