The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-12-06


|. The Forest and Stream, quoting a
letter from New Brunswick, N. j.,
describes case where several wood
cocks were brought up by a farmer
aud became we'll domesticated. He
found four in u nest, and brought them
home with him, hardly expecting they
would live. But he saw that by hold
ing worms before their bills they would
swallow them, although they would
not pick them up off the ground. In
few days they became very tame,
and, as they grew older, and acquired
their full plumage, they would take
short flights about the farm, but always
returning to the house, and roosting
beneath the stone slab forming the
kitchen doorstep. When the farmer
and our informant went into the gar
den, the birds, attracted by their own
er's voice, came hopping out of the
brush and flew upon his shoulders.
manifesting not the slightest fear, but
not permitting his companion to ap-
proach them. After taking food from
his hand they again flew away. Watch
ing the birds feeding, it was observed
that they would rapidly drive their
bills into the soft ground, constantly
boring until they found their worm.
They would then give peculiar twist,
draw it out its full length, and gulp
the worm down. a.e ysE
A Charlemont marketman, when de-
livering goods one morning, discovered
on leaving the house of customer a
eustard pie sitting in window where
the lady of the house had placed it to
cool for dinner. He at once appropri.
ated it, and driving directly to the
store of the lady's husband, called him
out and told him he had "hooked" a
nice custard pie, and if he would get
some cheese they would bave a nice
time eating it. OF course the cheese
was forthcoming, and after satistacto-
rally disposing of the pie the question
arose what to do with the plate, the
merchant said he would take care OF
that, and, suiting the action to his
words, dashed it against the wall.
When the merchant went home to din
ner that day his wifs apologized for
not having any dinner. saying that she
made custard pie for dinner and sat il
in the window to cool, and she suppos-
ed some boys must have stolen it.
Her husband warn't pie hungry, and
seemed quito pleased about something
but kept "mum." Next morning the
merchant meeting the marketman
cried out "Piel" In reply the other
said: Cheese and whose plate was
that you smashed ?"
The Rev. DIR. Benjamin w. Dwight
says of his ancestor, Timothy Dwight
father of Yale's President, that be was
six feet four inches in height. His
wife, Mary, Jonathan Edwards daugh-
ter, was so small that he wonld some
times carry her around the room on
his open palm, held out at arms
length. The physical strength of Ma
jor Dwight was proportioned to his
size. His descendant reports "two
stories told of him in the family"
One Of these represents him as seizing
a cart drawn by a yoke of oxen aud
stopping il; the other tells of a "WO--
thington braggart" who came into
Major Dwigbts garden to challenge
him to trial of strength. The Major
quietly finished the garden work IN
which he was engaged, and then, drop
ing his hoe, he suddenly caught up the
ranter, and whirling him horizontally
several times over his head, pitch
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