Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-07-15
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CHAPTER !.

Sambo Through the Adirondack VIII
dernees In 1891 on Their Way TO the
Land Of observation-disclosures II De-
scrIbes the soapina Of the BrIm-
eteada.
In the early summer Of 1881 Sam
son Traylor and his wife, Sarah, and
two children left their old home near
the village of Vergennes, Vermont,
and began their travels toward the
setting sun with four chairs, a bread
board and rolling-pin, a feather bed
and blankets. small looking glass. a
skillet, an ak, a pack basket with a
pad Of sole leather on the same, a
water pail, box Of dishes. . tub Of
salt pork, a rifle, teapot, a sack OF
meal, sundry small provisions and
violin, in a double wagon drawn by
oxen. 1t IL pleasure to note that
they had q violin and were not dis
posed to part with It. The reader must
not overlook It's full historic signifl-
cance. The stern, incorporating
spirit Of the Puritan had left the
house Of the Yankee before a violin
could enter 1t. Humor and the love
Of play had preceded and cleared a
way for 1t. Where there was a fiddle
there were cheerful hearts. A young
black shepherd dog with tawny points
and the name Of Sambo followed the
wagon.
If we had been at the Congrega-
tional church on Sunday we might
have heard the minister saying to
Samson, after the service, that 1t was
hard to understand why the happiest
family In the parish and the most he
loved should be leaving It's ancestral
home to go to far, new country of
which little was known. We might also
have heard Samson answer:
s.It's awful easy to be happy here.
We slide along In the same old groove,
that our fathers travelled, from Yer
gennes To Paradise. We work and
play and so to meetin' and put a shin
plaster in the box and grow old and
narrow and stingy and mean and 20
up to glory and are turned into saints
and angels. Maybe that's the best
thing that could happen to us, but
Sarah and kind o. thought we'd try
q new starting place and another route
to heaven"
Sarah and Sampson had been raised
on adjoining farms Just out Of the
village. He had had little schooling
but his mind was active and well IN
clined. Sarah had prosperous rela
'tives In Boston and had had the ad
vantage of years schooling In tina
city. She was a comedy girl OF
taste and refinement unusual in tn,
place and time of hel birth. Man,
well-fayored youths had sought he
hand, but, better than others. sh,
liked the big, masterful, good-natured
humorous Samson. crude as he was
Naturally In her hands his timber ha,
undergone some planning and smooth
ing and his thoughts had been Rentl
led into new and pleasant ways.
Let us take look at them as the
slowly leave the village OF their brit
The wagon Is covered with tent clot
drawn over hickory arches. They ar
sitting on a seat overlooking the oxe
in the wagon front. Tears are stream
Ing down the face OF the woman. Th
mans head is bent. HE elbows al
resting ON his knees; the hick0F
handle Of his OK whip lies across hi
lap, the lash at his feet He seems |
be looking down at his boots. into tn
tops OF which his trousers have bee
folded. He Is rugged, blond, bearde
man with kindly blue eyes and
rather prominent nose. There Is
striking expression Of power In Ii
head and shoulders Of Samson Traylo
The breadth of his back, the size
his wrists and hands, the color
HIS face betoken a man of gret
strength. This thoughtful, sOrrowfu
attitude is the only evidence OF EN-
ton which he betrays In n fe
minutes he begins TO whistle livel
tune.
The boy Joaiah-familiarly caIIe
J0e-sits beside his mother. He
a slender, sweet-faced lad. He
looking up wiatfully at his mothe
The little girl Betsey sits between hi
and her father.
That evening they stopped at Il
house Of an old friend some mile
up the rusty road to the north.
Here we are-goin' west" San
sen shouted to the man at the doc
step.
he aIighted and h@lped his famil
out of the wagon.
'You go right in-IM take care
the oxen" said the man.
Samson started for the house vii
tie girl under enc arm and the be
under the okze A pleasant-face
woman greeted tAam with q hears
wicosne AZ shs aeeR.
gou poer mmm1 0smaa right in
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