17/19 Poor fellow, he had a dreadful end. He was missing for several days, and at last some of the town's-people broke into his house, and found him dead, with his head badly burned. They supposed he was intoxicated, and fell, striking his head upon the andiron, which stunned him; and while he lay helpless, he was so badly burned that he soon died. And that was the last of poor old Zigzag." "There was another story Uncle James used to tell, about the naming of Barre, in Vermont; do you recollect it, mother ?" inquired Mrs.Preston. |