Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-08-27

That eminent turtle. Mr.. A. A Earle, oil
the Morrisville Citizen, in the last NUMBER
OF his paper ,corrects our account OF his now
famous agricultural horse trot.at Waitsheid.
the other day, by saying that in his fren-
zied fight through the woods ne was moi
followed by the maddened crowd, ior the
reason that he % folded his tent like an
Arab, and as silently stole away, unseen
by the vulgar eye. lie returned to the
scene of his exploits uncaptured. and was
insulted by no one. Mr.. Earle then. with
a charming display of e true inwardness,
narrates the story of his woes. as follows,
the interest of the tale being enhanced by
the artless simplicity with which 1t Is IN
folded
. Though Won bray fool in a mortar.
vet he will not learn wisdom" This from
the Gospel Is direct slap at US And tins
other passage, MOI in the Bible, also refers
to Us Experience Is a dear school, but
fools will learn in no Othr-" Not satisfied
with our venture in the - J0hnSbHry Times
matter, and the subsequent sad experience
which grew out of 1t, we must, last week,
poke of 70 tine woods of Waitsfeld TO super
intend moss trot" for the edihcatlOn OF
the people in Mad River Valley Tour q" val
ley Of humiliation and the replenishing
OF our collapsed wallet. said town being
forty-nine and a-half miles from any rail-
road. For genuine idiocy and plg-headed-
ness this transaction beats any of our for
mer schemes out of sight. But then, 1t
proves the truth Of the hOmely proverb
.. The older the fool the bigger the fool.
and we guess if we progress in the fool busi-
ness a. 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 - boss trOt.
Ii was all ours. too. IL was advertised big
and it was big las SeiD The horsemen
were sold (some OF them) the people were
sold tall OF them . and II We hadn't left for
the woods as We did and when We did TIVE
were after Qlm), our d" clay Geld corse'
would have been sold 10 the doctors fOr dis
section 20 help deiray the expenses of the
TWO days entertainment. Except IN the
matter Of rum and rows il was a total fall
IRE In these II was mag nihcent success I
The VOW We did not see, for 10 all appear
Guces II seemed that the day OF Judgment
was too inconveniently near at hand for our
comfort. Therefore deeming - discretion
the better part Of valOr,' and feeling that
90 j, was H1t good fox u 70 be there. we
broke for the deep recesses OF " the wild. I
Wild woods We did We thought II
was better TO be live coward in Morris
vile than a dead corpse IN Naitsheld. with /
our classic countenance all pounded up by /
The tlpsy descendants Of those who 20 n0biy /
cudgeled each other az Denny brook Fair.
. as- then the Fix struck Us 70 gc berry T
ing to save bVrylng. And we went. Oar .
gait was not slow, and solemn, like the
meas ured. m0urnful tread Of a funeral pro
csssl0n. but ike the speed OF a locomotive
% the ScrIDtural war-horse. that " snuffeth
the battle from aiAr. We Jumped mighty
Iences- W e leaped precipices, and yawning
8 asms- We dashed by roaring cataraets.
W showed bottom that beat q" tanny's"
most enduring work and speed that mas
never been excelled, thus proving that mus
.lc ls sometimes yoked with mind We
were afraid. Yea. We believe We were
'aaraa We are the poet who sighed
For q lodge n some vas, wilderness
Some bundles coltl=u-ty O. shade
!. iornd il; August l2th. at . p. II 10
am lt all Up briefly. there were not more
han half enough receipts TO pay expenses
biz beng the ease. We could not pay the
'urses- The hOr>emen would not work
it-F hHl-t- without pay. ms u was that
'zcitel the people They said il was
windle and demanded their money back.
" tire tr1t to proceed a. advertised This
Sc could not do The result was big row
ID general stampede for the gates. and q
cm4nd fer money al the ticket Office This
-st they did NOT get. This was the moment
Lat our pluck FURNISHED By Mrs Ober) !
ave ont. and sent n hunting timber for
lr new house We thought OF the c0uplst.
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