Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-22
SOME MORE TRAVELLERS.

Dear Editor and Sisters: Reading the letters that told about the odd travellers of the road here in Connecticut made me thank of the two I used to know up in northwestern Massachusetts. and thought perhaps you might like to hear about them.
 They were tragedies. both of them The woman Crazy Jane she was called used to pass cur house several times a year and once I remember stayed over night. sleeping in the barn, because she would not be separated from her dogs. Those dogs, two large. ferocious creatures, ac- eompanied her wherever she went, shar- ing her bed and the food given her Mac Bear and DeWolfe she called them. Some times there were puppies; then she put them tn' an old baby carriage and took them with her. When they were older she led them. as she did tlie old dogs, or rather they led her, they were so much the stronger, and I have heard that if she saw anyone coming siis aWays passed the rope around the nearest tree or tele- phone pole, or she could not hold them She had been, heard, a pretty. fairly well educated girl and was engaged to be married, but not long before her we'd ding day her lover was shot by a d.sap- pointed suitor. CFazed and scared by
 
 ugly dog by her and sine would be safe from personal attack, and after that she was never without U.l, Vl nIvI~ (. them.
 The other character was a blind ped dler, Blind Man Parsons we called him, who sold notions and dry goods for a liv- ing. In memory I can see him coming up the road, big valise in one hand. a pack strapped to his back, and in the other hand long, stout staff He would tap the road in front of him with the staff. every few minutes bringing the hand holding the staff to his nose. feel ing the road again for few paces, then bringing the staff to h's nose again. Just what he did it for I never knew. IL was probably habit But We children used te , think that he could tell where he was by the smell of his staff, though We won. dered sometimes how the smell coulf pass through the staff. l never saw hin without his staff or without red hand ] kerchief, folded and tied over his eyes His tragedy lay not so much in hrs blind l ness as in the cause of t. When a boy an older brother of h:s deliberately ex posed hiHise,f to smallpox, saying that i ne had it he would not have te w0rr, ! about catching it. He did have 1t anl got over t and was all right But h gave it to his mother and younger broth | CT, aI4Q tnSy ndu 10 SAlLeI LOT iIG Ltllg The mother died the brother lived bu l hlind.
 Valentine: Glad to see you in prin again. Why don't you ever come up thi way? Why not come to W for the Ma. meeting?
 l Pers.s: Do you live near the nev school building? We went to MaHeheste on the first auto ride this spring. and fell in love with the place Never Wa l there before.
 1 Eatemup: Are you the one who so lon ago said she couldn't soften Aunt SeIe l na's sugar gingersnaps by soaking then 1 in hot tea2 I had the recipe but can find it now, and as I do not think Aun Serena will ever write again perhap l Aunty No, 1 will send you the recipe. ate some that she made by that recipe a that Discovery day dinner at Marie and Hanpy's and they were very goot But if Aunty hasn't the recipe now l ar quite sure that Thsoda has and wall b glad to give 1t to you. When you try do report on your luck this time
 BETSY BOBBETT.