Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-08-23

But then it proves the truth of the home
" proverb: 1.-The older the fool the
bigger the tool" and we guess if We
progress in the fool business as fast in
the next fifty years as we have in the
past ten, we shall be entitled by that
time to an idiotic asylum all to our
selves. Well, we have had a "hoss
trot." 1t was all ours, too 1t was ad>
vertlsed big and it was big las a SELL
The hOrsemen were sold. (some of them)
the people were sold, (all of them and
if we hadn't left for the woods as we did
and when we did 1--WE were after gum
our "clay cold corse" would have been
sold to the doctors for dissection to help
defray the expenses of the two days en-.
tertainment Except in the matter of
rum and rows it was q total failure. In
these it was magnificent success. The
row we did not see, for to all appearan-
ces it seemed that the "day of judg-
ment" was too inconveniently near at
hand for our comfort. Therefore deem
ing discretion the better part of yalor, "
and feeling that lit was not good for US
to be there" we broke for the deep re-
cesses of "the wild, wild woods" We
did! We thought it was better to be a
live coward in Morrisville than a dead
corpse in Waitsfeld, with our classic
countenance all pounded up by the tip
sy descendants of those who so nobly
cudgeled each other at "DonnybrOok
Fair" Just then fit struck us to 60
"berrying" to save burying. And we
went. Our gait was not slow and sol
emn. like the measured. mournful tread
of funeral procession, but like the
speed of locomotive or the Scriptural
war-horse, that ''snufed the battle from
affair."" We jumped mighty fences. We
leaped precipices, and yawning chasms.
We dashed by roaring cataracts. We
showed bottom that beat "Fannys'
west enduring work and speed thai
has never been eqcelled. thus proving
that muscle IS sometimes yoked witt
mind. We were Arid. Yea, we be
lieve we were scared. We are the poe
who sighed
'For lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless cOntiguity of shade"
We found it Aug 18th, at p. m. L
sum it all up briefly, there were no
more than half enough receipts to pa
expenses. This being the case. W
could not pay the purses. The horse
men would not work their horses with
out pay. This it was that excited tn
people. They said it was swindle an
demanded their money back, or the trC
to proceed as advertised. This we coul
not do. The result was a big row
general stampede for the gates, and
demand for money at the ticket ofic,
This last they did not get. We though
of the cOuplet, too
He who fights and runs away,
Will live TO fight another day.
Only we didn't fight. Our enemy coul
not find us. We own up. We surreI
der. We ask pardon. We humble on
self. We ache We stand treat "
succumb, We are willing to have not.
ing more said about ii. We are no
ready for the Gospel Workers and thin
we furnish an inviting field for ther
We are cOntented. We shall get up !
more 'hoss trots," but leave them f
blacklegs, whose regular business is
swindle a well-meaning public. v
have lost money and reputation in o.
venture in this regard, as it is rig
and proper we should lose. We stepp
to make money fast-"touched pitch al
: have been defled." We don't wa
any pity and we'll kick the first one tn
7 offers any when we get sufficient 'pluc
e to do it.