The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-07

by the people of that dty-and undoubtedly it
was a tough fall ior those times. We read thai
In Adams Fall
We sinned ALL,
| and if there is any time that Il nan feels like
shining it is in The Fail. We never blamed
| Adam as much as good MANY DO, for without
doubt he was troubled Il good deal The wealth
| cr had probably been warm and pleasant, and
Adam had neglected 10 cover up his tomatoes
and sQuaShcs. and his wife had used his best
oyercoat to put round her plants. The other
neighborS seeing thH Adam did not deem il
necessary to protect his stun. paid no attention
to their own, and the result WAS that there
| came heavy frost one night, their garden sass
got nppcd and they didn't have any squash
pies or canned tomatoes through the winter.
Adam WIS first seIqclman Of hi, town, and
guardian of Ill The orphan children, and per
| haps taught singing school IN the winter, and
paid the biggest tax. and was looked up TO by
the rest of the community and for these reasons
that particular season WAS called " Adam Fall"
This is our theory of the matter; but if ", had
time we would ask James Parton about it, but
we 90 to press too early to obtain the Informs
ton. 1t is in The Vail that man GETS out hi
thick boots which have laid away all summer,
and finds the >oieS "f them round Siiouitcrcd
ana the uppers rs >iiii rs an Old maids opinion.
and when he pulls on the boot his foot feels rs
though il was cnra>rd IN a tin coffee pot, and
the wrinkles in the leather nut into the top of
his foot and he pulls the boot oil and oils II and
pat, ii behind the stove to soften up Il litlle be
fore using Then the celEr. windows must be
put in. and pultmg in a cellar window is Il, dil-
ficulJ n getting interested in reading a Patent
Office Report. The first thing necessary is to
find the windows and az 4 man gazes at the
slshcs and discovers Il large proportion Of the
glass broken he wonders why some one don't
invent a window that will not break, and thinks
he will do il at his first leisure. 10 economist,
he thinks he viii set the Glass himself, ana pro
| ceeds 10 count the missing lights with the in
tenton OF purchasing the same number to i'll
their places This Is wrong. \ new beginner
at setting gla-, should gel two lights for every
one he intends setting. somehow he cannot
believe till he tries, that glass viii not bend, but
such j. the ,ad fact and il usually takes a mum
Der Of lights to convince him Of il. After much
labor the glass j, set and the nest important
thing is 10 put the windows in. In house
properly made no two cellar windows Will fiji
the same lrune--;nd this little nugget Of wis
dom daWns on a man When he begins to tackle
the job. lie tries all the windows and none of
them fit; then he tries them again Wron5 side
up and back end to, knowing that one Of them
ought to 90 in. FINAL he gets one started and
partly in and there il sticks. He can't get il in
or out, and he tugs and pals and 1t last goes
down cellar TO push il Out. He has forgotten
the hammer. so mounting box he takes hi,
fist and thumns on the frame several times.
As il does not start, he finally. i'll Il moment of
frenzy, strikes when he is looking another WAY
and his hand chances off the frame and pun@cS
INTO The open air through the glass, cutting his
| hand and making him howl with pain. lie is
| now mad, and selling brick which happens to
| he handy, he raps the other end Of the sash and
| succeeds in not only driving out the sash but a
| second pane OF glass and as the sash falls out
| his arm goes out too. and this sudden move
| ment causes the box on which he is standing
| to tip over, and he comes down on the eel
| lar floor, not gently Is IA snow flake. but with
| the force that Il heavy body drops when il is
! taken naWArcs. 1t is al this time that his
wife opens the cellar door and wants TO know
| what the racket is. if the ciscrn has burst or if
he has rot the lelirium tremens. The infor-
nation She receives does not seem TO please
her, for She shuts the door with II ten horse
power slam and disappears into the front of the
house where she loses her interest in putting
in windows, by looking at Il book of fashions.
! BY the time the man gets out of the cellar he
* TO a. I
| vault of Heaven without a ladder, and he can't
| see why any one wants to live to be seventy
| five years Old, if he has got to put in cellar
windows every Fall. 1t is surprising how
| much more man can accomplish when he gets
! thoroughly mad. At such times, in threading
| a needle the eye will look large enough for him
| to pull a wheel-barrow through. When he
gets at work again the windows seem to have
shrunk so that they go in quite easily, and by
| the time he has got the last one in he has re-
gained his temper and is feeling SO pleasant that
| he would be willing to kiss girl that had been
| eating garlic. or run for Office If he knew he
| would be defeated. Beside this job Of cellar
| windows there are the outside windows TO put
in the coal TO get in, and the apples to pick, all
| of which Fall reminds him Of. There are many
pleasant things connected with this season. 1t
is now that lie can 90 into the woods and see
those autumnal tints painted on each leaf, no
two alike, and done with that exquisite touch
That no artist can attain. He gazes at the
scene, drinks in its beauties and comes home
ana mas the quarter gas bill due, and-bu
why dwell on the subject?
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