Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-13

Ia II y w Mn y l. N'ltl I!I'i4l INV
arrives with a degree of regularity
that Is truly refreshing, after our long
winter Of disappointments in that par
ticular, and the Jou1uW is a frequent
yisiter again. The weather has at last
apparently concluded to give up It's
clustering habits, since old Winter
has ceased his undue encroachments
on Spring, and fine warm shower
has made the grass look gloriousIy
green. The robin and the wren
have returned; the shrub knows
the 'jay' once more the blue birds,
otes are in the air and from out
the wood-top' the "crow' is trying
its prettiest to sing. The little pigs
rejoice in fresh earth in which to root
their little noses, and the old COWS
rejoice in the prospect of good
square meal once more, that which
they have been deprived of so long
and while they lean up against some
fence, they, no doubt, think of the
long, long nights of Winter gone and
sing--1'll bet on this singing part
songs of gladness that they have lived
through it. O,-regular school-boy
fashion after the long cold Winter
give me howery Spring with its mud
and bad colds. Next to Spring send
me Summer with its red hot, melting
days, followed by autumn, when ap-
pies can be stoen and, as the supply
of ice is about exhausted, and get
tired of warm drinks, then give mc
Winter again-just fQr a change
There I've pulled my beard UNI
til my face is sore, scratched my head
until there is a rebellion kicked up
there, demonstrating the fact that it
is not cast iron, and have succeeded in
producing the above and the spell is
gone. Luckily, readers of the Jo"r'-
~aI think; but JIM BRADY, of 'Conv,
will account to you for this spell by
telling YOU that the moon is full lust
now.
BY the way. this reminds me that a
catastrophe has happened | had in
tended taking trip this summer to
the Hawk 5 Nest, hfty-two. miles above
here,-up the river, | mean,-and
getting up a "spcll,' and giving you
gushing description of that place
The Hawks Nest, as YOU are aware
is pretty considerable cliff Of rocks
alongside Now River. | was there
once and one of the inhabitants of the
county told me that it was exactly
900 feet high, measured by GEO
WAsHrNGToN, who stood up to his
arm pits in the river below and
threw a silver dollar-on top, of
course. looked for that silver dollar
but did not find it, and while looking
| wondered where the dickens Gro.
got all those silver dollars that he
used to throw around so loose--and.
as GEORGE W. couldn't tell lie,
believed it. | have since read in a Sun
dav-sch oil book that it is 1000 feet
high believed that too, for liked to
believe whatever the sunday school
books says, but as it did not precisely
agree with G.. VS. measurements, |
have averaged the two, and I've sat
and talked, by the hour, to any one
who would listen, about the grandeur
Of the place, $50 feet high orow9c
measurement. But now, afterG VS.
measurement, $50 called the sunday
school book measurement and my av-
erage measurement, an engineer, who
has been ranting around through this
country, and having the ground tore
up, contrary to old and respected LISA
ges, building the c. & @. r., r. Ibis
tiend in human shape, with no poetry
in his soul, instead of minding his own
business, measures the Hawk s-Nest.
and declares it to be only $40 feet
high, and worse, shows the figures
that prove it, and, with one bump of
his COMPOUNDED head, knocks 4SO feet
off the S. S. book measurement, $50
feet ofG. ". s measurement, and, what
hurts me worse, $50 feet off my ave.
age measurement, and tumbles nearly
half of the greatness of the Hawks
Nest into oblivion. I'm mad at that
man; | hope he may never have the
honor of falling over that cliff, and if he
ever falls over any cliff | hope it won't
be two feet high. Any man who has
no more respect for frst-class cliffs Of
rocks than he has is not entitled to a
fall over cliff. The next thing he
will be at, expect, will be to meas
ure the Great Falls Of the Kanawha,
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