The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-09-18

mere: and placed II on the communion table of
me humble meeting house, which partly covered
me site OF yonder stately brick one. Thus one
generation after another was consecrated TO
heaven BY lis waters, and cast their waxing
and waning shadows into its CLASSY bosom. aod
vanished from the earth, as if immortal life
were but lifting image in a fountain. Final
" the fountain vanished also. Cellars were
dug on all sides, and caft-loads Of gravel were
tinng upon IFS source, whence oozed turhid
stream; forming mud-pudd- at the corner Of
Two streets. 10 the hot months, when It's re-
treShm-nt was most needed, the dust few IN
clouds over the forgotten birthplace Of the
waters now their grav". But in the course Of
tune, town pump was sunk into the. source If
the ancIent spring and when The first decayed,
another took ITS piact-and then another. and
Stltl another-tiii here stand /, gentlemen and
ladies', to serve YOU with my iron goblet Drink
and be refreshed The water Is pure and cold
as that which Slaked the thirst Of the red Saya-
more beneath the aged bough, though now the
gem Of The wilderness is treasured under these
hot stones where no shadows fall but from the
brick buildings And be it the moral Of my s,o-
ry, that as the wasted and ang-lost fountain is
now known and priced again, 50 shall the vr-
tneS OF cold water, too tT1tle valurd since vour
fathers days, be recognized by all.
Your pardon, good people must interrupt
my stream Of eloqUence and spout forth stream
OF water, 10 reprnSh th trough Tor this tenn
str and his yoke ofox-n, who have CONF from
Topsteld, or somewhere along that way No
part OF my buSintSSiS pirasangrr than the wa
terng Of cattle! Look, how rapidly they low
er the water-mark on the sides of the trough,
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