Litchfield enquirer., 1876-10-26
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 Jahn Thor,-my Jahn Thor-had given me the flowers had begged them o him. He had kept the train back for fully five minutes, in order that he might find the old flowers and the ale bottle in the saw-dust hill where Miss Eusebia had un doubtedly thrown them. Then I told my sister all about it, from beginning to end and she said, kissing me, that I was ''a silly child. But she cried ,and we both cried, and after while we went to sleeI m each. others arms, and, though the Thorsdale road was terribly rough one, then, l slept much more sweetly than had done for the last two nights,
 Of course married MT. Thor, six months afterwards.
 And what about Thorsdale? Thorsdale has a cattle-shed. New York and Chi cago quote our market. We have now rows of houses, some of them with stone fronts. We have five churches and a synagogue, six clergymen and rabbi, ten lawyers, eleven doctors, and seventeen dentists. We have three hotels, and-to think ofiti-suburban cottages. We have had horse.race, 8 robbery, divorce, a terrible fire. and municipal pe- culation. Are not these the attributes of a thriving town? We have a daily paper The Thorsdale Tripod Mir. Thor says the name is good one, as it supports the editor (the former reporter of Tie Smoil- ersville SentineI) by means of it's brass, brains, and blarney. That editors prin cipal business is, of course, to scatter cinders on the devoted heads of .the Smoilersvillians. His last leading arti- cle was entitled "Delenda est Smoilers- ville."
 wish I was quite certain that did not feel, myself, that spirit of rivalry which IS, am afraid, inherent. am, however. asserting only what any one may see nthe last census, which is th~ ThOrsdale had then exactly f'' -Al souls more than SmoilersviIIr .ty-nlne boysboro, we distance o; as to TWO three years ago. her more than ble Mir. Thor -Ar. Thor. the Honora- Centenr: mas just returned from the ore ..al Exposition, where he acted as
 of the judges. He was in Norway last year, and We expect every day our second body of honest, sturdy Scandina vian folk; the advance corps came to Thorsdale more than two years ago. We both of us cried like babies when we saw the steamboat filled with opr Norwegian people come sailing from out the shadow of the lake, up to Thor's Light. did so wish, than. that my children's grand father had been alive.
 MT. Thor still makes carefully execu ted plans of Thorsdale, and help him It was but yesterday, when looking at the old map which once decorated my closet at the telegraph station, that said to my husband, "Do you not think that some of those new extensions of streets might be assimilated to the original plans? wish you would study it up; you entirely neglect the dear old map"
 Nonsense, Mary" was the reply. "Let us be practical. notice with some regret that Thorsdale is assuming cer. tain foridity of style which is ridiculous ly out of place. The architect who has made the plans of the Thor House esti mates that monograms, T and an Fl in- terlaced; over every window, with sea horses rampant, will increase the cost o1 the front decoration some thirty-five hun dred dollars. Now, though such orna ments might make people remember us, it would be the landlord of the hotel, ol the guests, who evidently would have to pay for them"
 But did yon not promise me foun' tain, after my own designs, to be put uI in Thor Place this year." asked.
 Before we get to fountains, we must look the fire-plug question squarely in the face. The poetical Camelot had no city gas-bills to worry over, and what did King Arthur care for paving or grading?"
 ''And Asgard?"
 Dear old woman, just seventeen years agoa cattle-shed knocked Asgard on the head. You made the cattle-shed possible, Mary, and thank God for it."