Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-29
|[USTAPHA'S REST.

Vow in the sixth month, in the reign
lire good caliph, it was so that Mus
Ma said: 81 am wearied with much
tk. Thought, care and worry have
In me out I need repose, for the
La of exhaustion is upon me and death
VI b now lieth at the door.
md he called his physician, who felt
bis pslse and looked upon his tongue
j said:
+TwodolIahsl' This was the oath
N which all physicians swore. "Of a
+ity thou must have rest. Flee unto
valley of quiet and close thine eyes
dreamful rest. Hold back thy brain
\ n thought and thy hand from labor,
thou wilt be candidate for the asy-
III in three weeks. -
and he heard him and went out and
u the business III the hands Of the
rk and went away to rest in the val
i Of quiet. And he went to his Uncle
his, whom he had not seen for 10!
h se Il years.
But when he reached his Uncle Ben's
Y received him with great joy and
ced before him a supper Of homely
4 nds, well cooked, and piled up on
plate like the wreck of q box car,
NJ when he could not eat it all they
hghed him to scOrn.
and after supper they sat up with
in and talked with him about rela-
es whereof he had never in all his
n so much as heard. And he answer
their questions at random and lied
Ito them, protesting to know Uncle
i -a and Aunt Bethesda, and once he
III that he had letter from Uncle
aOrge last week.
Now they all knew that Uncle George
S shot in a neighbours sheep pen
Zee years ago, but Mustapha visit not
BIT it was so, and he was sleepy and
ly talked TO fill up the time.
And then they talked politics to him,
II he hated politics, SO about
block in the morning they sent him to
Now, the spare room wherein he slept
Is right under the roof, and there
re ears and bundles of seed corn hung
BIN the rafters, and he bunged his eye
tth the same, and he hooked his chin
festoons of dried apples and shook
led herbs and seeds down his back as
walked along, for it was dark, and
hen he sat up in bed in the night he
II scythe in his ear.
And it was SO that the four boys slept
ith him, for the bed was wide, and
ey were restless and slumbered cross
Use and kicked, so that Mustapha slope
It a wink that night, neither closed he
S eyes.
And about the fourth hour after mid
ght his Uncle Ben snote him on the
OK and spake unto him, saying:
f' Awake, arise, rustic out of this and
lsh your face, for the liver and bacon
fried and the breakfast waiteth. You
III find the well down at the other
a of the COW lot. Take towel with
u. F"
When they had eaten, his Uncle Ben
AXE unto him, saying:
( Come, let us stroll around the farm"
And they walked about 1 miles, and
Uncle Ben sat him upon a wagon
ID taught him how to load hay. Then
by drove into the barn, and he taught
10 how to unload it. Then they girded
their loins and walked four miles,
EN- in the forest, and his Uncle Ben
night him how to chop wood, and they
hllzed back to supper, and the morning
ID the evening We're the first day, and
ustapha wished that he were dead.
And after supper his Uncle Ben
oke once more and said, Come, let
have some fun and they hooked up
team and drove nine miles down to
Elcher's Branch, where there was a
|p, and they danced until the second
|ur in the morning.
When the next day was come-which
hsn't long, for already the night was
1 spent-his Uncle Ben took him out
|d taught him how to make rail
bees. And that night there was a
Edding, and they danced and made
brry and drank and ate, and when
ey went to bed at o'clock Mustapha
byed that death might come to him
fore breakfast time.
But breakfast had an early start and
t there first. And his Uncle Ben took
IN down to the creek and taught him
W to wash and shear sheep. And
ben the evening was come they went
IA spelling school, and they got home
the first hour after midnight
Now, when Mustapha was at home,
left his desk at the fifth hour in the
Eernoon, and he went te bed at the
Frd hour after sunset, and he arose
It until the sun was high in the heav-
S.
So the next day, when his Uncle Ben
build take him out into the field and
bw him how to make a post and rail
bee, MUstapha would swear at him
b smote him with an ak helve and
b and got himself home.
And Mustapha sent for his physician
b cursed him. And he said he was
ed to death. He turned his face to