Vairmount is an indypendent kentry, an I callate we'd better jine. Ef
they'd a made aout with that air noshin folks hed a spell ago, baout
raisin up a new state, made aout o' Hampshire caounty an a track o'
land tew the northard,'twould a been jess the sorter thing fer us
Berkshire fellers to a hitched on tew."
"I never hearn nothin baout that idea" said Peleg.
"I s'pose ye hain't," replied Ezra. "I wuz livin in Hampshire them
times, an so I wuz right in the way o' the talk. They wuz gonter call
the state New Connecticut. But the idee never come ter nothin. The war
come on an folks hed other fish ter fry."
But Israel declared that he was not in favor of joining on to
anything. Berkshire was big enough state for him, and he did not want
to see any better times than along from '74 to '80, when Berkshire
would take no orders from Boston.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD
SNOW-BOUND
All through the first half of December one heavy snow storm had
followed another. The roads about Stockbridge were often blocked for
days together. In the village the work of digging paths along the
sidewalks, between the widely-parted houses, was quite too great to be
so much as thought of, and the only way of getting about was in
sleighs, or wading mid-leg deep.
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