The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-06
BY M. QUAD
Copyright, 1918, by Associated Lit
erary Press.

She had an acre or ground Win IN
house, ana she put 450 chickens a
work scratching up the soil and tw'
lncubators working overtime. She bull
her own coops and wire fences.
A roar went up.
: There had been time in the histor,
OF Grahamsville when every house
, holder had his chickens and his bar
vest of eggs, but the Growing of roost
ers had awakened the people hours
ahead of time, and by common consent
all fowls had been banished. No crows
nor clucks nor cackles for the past ter
years, and here was the Widow Cam
eron breeding thousands Of them!
Something must be done.
Squire Johnson must wait on her
and tell her she can't keep chickens.
"Of course she can't said the squire
as he started for the widows house to
lay down the rules to her
"Oh, / can't. eh?" she replied to his
oratory.
mo, madam. We are very strict on
that point"
You and the rest of the folks can
| go TO grass
! One of the ministers called to wres-
! tie with her. she held the door against
him while he said:
Madam. our good people are very
much exercised over the fact, the
fact
That / am raising chickens" she
finished. We'll. you tell your good
people that II they say much more
will sell my fowls and 90 to raising
skunks for their fur and ile!''
Not another objection came from a
citizen. No one was hankering to ex-
change chickens for skunks.
If they kept no hens in Grahams-
vile they did keep hogs and cows.
The animals could run at large and
feed themselves. The Widow Gamer
on gave public notice through the
county paper that the owner OF any
hog or COW that trespassed upon her
property would hear something drop.
.'she can't mean it, men said to
each other. why, our animals have
always run at large"
Mr.. Schermerhorn's cow broke her
way In one night, and at daylight she
heard something drop. 1t was one of |
her horns. The owner wanted dam. |
ages, but was told TO go to.
Mr.. Todd's big spotted hog rooted |
his way in aud got broken back for
his pains. His owner was just foolish /
enough to call on the widow and try
to collect S. in cash. and 1t was over
the fence for him.
Solomon Price was a widower who
wanted a second wife. Why not cap /
ture the Widow Cameron and her
chickens and real estate and the mon
ey she must have In the bank? Good
thing, except that Solomon had had no
experience counting widows. Some one
had told him that the first move to be
made was to chuck the poor thing UNI
Ter the chin. He began that way. In
return he received a right hand swing
hat fractured his jaw. and he went
,ut of the house followed by No. 8 ,
,alfskin shoe. +
A tin peddler came along and sold the I
Widow Cameron some leaky utensils
Ind got away before she discovered the
heat A week later he returned to
he village and was waylaid by his =
-ictim and had both eyes put in mourn
ng.
There was a great tangling of three
hurch bells on Sunday forenoons. IL v
vas to warn the people that Saturday Z
lad passed and Sunday had come and
ueh of the population as cared to could ;
lear sermon at one of the three
No guarantee as to wheth. =,
r the sermon would be good. bad or II
Indifferent The widow didn't like the a
angling, and she got out an injunction q
nd had the bells silenced. b
There were dogs In Grahamsville-- y
iany dogs. They had come to realize &C
nat they must not disturb the peace y
; fighting. They could growi and 3
ristle rs they passed by. but there
lust be no conflicts to determine .,
-hich was the better dog. The Widow m
ameron went about encouraging dogs N
( every breed to stand up for their tr
ghts and TO fight at the drop of the tr
NJ. 1t got so there was scrap every IN
llf hour. IA
What the Widow Cameron didn't do :. 81
} the town Of Grahamsville could not - :.
, told in columns. She woke ii up. I.
be- bossed II. She terrorized IT, She
ade It over into rapid town. When
was realized that trade was increas-
g. strangers coming in and that a
ilroad was probability a public th
Getting was called. and the citizens VI
described $4,000 and bought the wild =
' out and saw that she left the town r.
I'd yet as she went she kicked Hir.m
sbee in the shins for cheating her on
load os wood and also cuffed Moses
rwberry up to a peak for saying
at she couldn't get married II she n,
a q r7ffffon dofIore hack NJ ha~