Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-10-12
By NJ. QUAD

little woman with a babyish look. She
kept hired man on the farm and
hired girl in the kitchen. but she was
boss and worker ssswen She was,
kind TO wayfarers and a liberal conf
tributor to the unfortunate, and she
was ready to take advice on all points
but one There she was singularly OBJ
stinate and seemingly foolish.
During his lifetime Farmer Eender-..
son had been the victim Of a bank
failure. True, he lost only SIT in it,
but it was 4 lesson to last him the rest
of his days and to be handed over to
his wife when he departed. She had
been widow for three years. when
a sister died and left her d thousand
dollars in cash. There was then u pri-
vate banker in the nearest village. and =
he was spoken Of by all as God fearing
and strictly honest. There were pe0-
pie who had known him from infancy,
and they vouched that there was not a
blot on his character When Aunt
Sally got her thousand she was ad-
vised to bank it. She declined. After
she had been talked to by her neigh
boris, her minister, the justice Of the
peace and others She did consent to
drive into the village one day and take
a look 1T the banker. He looked good
to other folks. but after five minutes
Aunt Sally turned from him and said:
Il wouldn't trust that man with a
single dollar"
But Why" was asked
because he toes in when he walks.
| You take my word for it. he'll turn out
| TO be a rascal
She was laughed at. but she said
no t0P-in banker for her thousand dol
lars. She'd keep it in she house Of
/ course she was warned IF the danger
! Of robbers, but she smiled in her baby
! way and replied that they could come
/ on as fast as convenient. In a month
| it was known pretty much all over the
! county that Aunt Sally Henderson had
! thousand dollars. in the house. Some
| said it was buried in the cellar others
! that it was hidden il the garnet, 9th
! ers still that it was IN a trunk under
| her bed. With everybody talking there
was bound to be results
1t was a big tramp who came limp
ing along the highway at shutdown
one day and talked of his hunger and
Affections, Besides his limp he had
his left arm in sling. No friends. no
! home. nothing in the future for him.
! He Wept as Aunt Sally questioned
! him. He was fed and given quarters
/ in the barn. At midnight he came out
Of the barn without his limp or his
sling and raised q kitchen window and
stepped in. AS he stepped IN he also
stepped into d beartrap yawning for
Weary Willie. and the jaws closed on
one of his legs. He was a big man.
and he made a fuss according to his
size. Aunt Sally dressed and came out
Of her bedroom and had him carried
out ION the lawn. There be was tied
up and the trap removed, and she said
she would see him later. After break
fast his case was attended to. The
hired man brought up some blue beech
gads. and while be laid them on Aunt
Sally stood By and sang Shalt We
Gather at the Biyer?'
The next conner f1oated in from the
; village He was travelling with q cir
: Gus as q seller of pink lemonade. AL
though he was making 500 per cent on
his liquid he sighed to. get rich faster.
Hearing Of that thousand. he walked
out to cooper it and buy some cold
storage stock. No kitchen window for
him. In the first place he was too
tony, ana in the next he found par
lOr window open. 1t looked good to
: him. He went in The same beartrap
= was there. Aunt Sally had simply
shifted it. The victim had a good
: voice Oh him. and he used it to arouse
: the house. He was taken out and laid
on the grass as the other had been.
but when morning came his punish
. ment was a bit different. The rain
S barrel at the corner of the house was
full. and he was lifted up and ducked
until he had swallowed about half the
contents: and was nearly drowned in
the rest. 1t was the hired man and
girl who did the ducking.
The last attempt on that $1,000. so
far as heard from, for the widow still
: lives and keeps it in the house, was a
| pretty fair plot. A stranger called and
: introduced himself as minister. who
: wanted board in a quiet place for &
month while he composed half dozen
4 sermons and rested up. He toed in,
4 but Aunt Sally took him in and de-
$ termined to watch. One afternoon at
: the end of the second week she had to
spend an hour at the barn with a sick
horse and he was left to finish a SER
mon on the sin of dancing and circus
0 going. When she came back to the
S house he was hunting among the cob
/, webs of the garnet for an old oyster
9 can holding a thousand dollars. He
: claimed to have gone up there to be
nearer heaven, and his claim was not
disputed. He was tied up, however,
and lowered down the we'll. 1t was a
deep we'll and a cold we'll. and he had