Tarry at home travels . ch spring,you do not use the same charcoal as if you weremaking steel rails at ninety-nine pounds a one of the great charcoal burners of the worldhad bought a few thousand acres, more or less,of woodland in Vermont to meet the wishes ofsome particular customers. To cut down the 112 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS wood and burn it a commander of Dagoes hadbrought up a httle regiment of Dagoes, and theywent to work. After they had been at work ayear or more, there appeared the tax collectorof the town with his bills for the poll-tax of everyDago- among them. Now the paying
Tarry at home travels . ch spring,you do not use the same charcoal as if you weremaking steel rails at ninety-nine pounds a one of the great charcoal burners of the worldhad bought a few thousand acres, more or less,of woodland in Vermont to meet the wishes ofsome particular customers. To cut down the 112 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS wood and burn it a commander of Dagoes hadbrought up a httle regiment of Dagoes, and theywent to work. After they had been at work ayear or more, there appeared the tax collectorof the town with his bills for the poll-tax of everyDago- among them. Now the paying of taxes was just one of thethings whichthe Dago hadmeant to avoidby leavingthe beneficentreign of KingVictor Emman-uel, or whoeverit was. So theysaid when the Samuel de Champlain. taX bills Came in that they would be hanged if they would paythem. I am not sure but that they used ex-pressions more theological. To them the taxcollector merely replied, very much to their sur-prise, that if they did not pay them, the whole. VERMONT 113 army of Vermont would appear if necessary onthe scene, and they would all be sent to prison. I tell this story l^ecause it was a perfect eye-opener to these Dagoes. The man who movedthem to and fro, as you move chessmen on aboard; said that he would do whatever theConsul General of Italy in the city of New Yorksaid he must do. Observe, and this is the in-teresting point with me, the way in which theCelt steadily holds to his disposition to be gov-erned by a Boss. Somebody went down to NewYork; the Consul General was no fool, and he toldthem they must pay their poll-taxes and theypaid them. They got their first lesson as to thestrength of a Democratic Republic. In old days the annual session of the legisla-ture ranged from three days to ten. But I amtold now the legislature meets only on alternateyears. It meets in the early part of Septemberand usually sits till the last of November. I hadthe pleasure of meeting one of Vermonts gov-ernors once for a
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