The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-03-22
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Tbe ielloslnx ''lDtefview vas teu
"a BY James G Clark, the Lyric poet GBt
Balisdist We oaBnos Voueh ior ihe trait
u IL but Il is too good to be consigned Il
the waste basket and ~ election is oVsi
licanaot be construed into ssything Ike
a''partisau lie Mr.. Clark says be will
pay Manchester visit next summer and
give us concert En. JouRNAL.l
while mustpg, among the ruins OF "
George, ] came across An elderly man
who bad found a shady seat inside The
AseIent esrthworks, and was quietly
smoking disoolored clay pipe. The old
mau and bic pipe had evidently seen bet
ter days, though not many hotter ones
as the mercury indicated ~ lsast one
hundred in the shade, and as he sat and
smoked In sad medIlatiSe silence, | took
= seat 8 short distance from his right
hand and opened conversation with him.
remarked; This 10 romantic region s.
bout Lake 6e0rge ts#a
can't see that i,'s very rhumAtic. Ny
rehmutiz sinl nigh as bad when | am
here as Il i Ia Troy.
continued: IL seems too bad that
this old fort should 90 10 ruin in this
wAy,sa
Yes bul that's the way OF the world
noWdsys Old forts going TO ruin, old
fslIsrs going out OF date, aud the hull
country yoih' TO thunder.
/ You seem sad to-day. DO you live in
these parts
I Wall, partly Ia these parts, bat most
ly IN other parts. The fact 10 don't live
mucs OF any where. Pm stsyin, around
withmy children. I've got gal married
and living sigh Lake George, boy in
Rutland, VI, and two more In Troy. !
was born In The town Of New Leb'non,
Kluniby county, N. r., on the 'ieventh
day of March, 1914.
Then you must have known Samuel j..
TiIden2 n2amgMttvs stmawnl
O,yis, lkiiowed Sammy well. l'in Jest
four days oliet'a Sam, but he was too old
for me, onct.
Abl bow did that hAppssS
Wall, Sammy wuz 3 ely chap, and wa
allus gitten US boys into scrapes, aud
then leavin' us TO get out the best way we
could. Sometimes he would contrive to
tgit us licked for what be was guilty Of
hissolf, but we never could prove nothin'
agin him
! | Iember how a nsighbor OF Sammy's
father had biz patch of mush milyons
one year. They wuz called nutmeg
mush nilyons because they looked like
nutmeg, but wuz bout as big as your
double fist, round as an apple, and sweet
| 'ern honey.
One day, uncle Ike, as the boys cal led
him, told us to come over into the gar
din, and help ourselves, aud Moses and
Sammy Tilden went with tho rest on us.
Arter we'd had all we could eat, and was
on our way hum, Sammy suddenly spoke
up, and says he, Say boys, them wuz
nice milyons; they, wouldn't be bad 10
take every day.
Yis, says Nose, but then the old man
won't be apt to invite us TO eat any more,
fur be can git ten cents apiece for 'em of
the visitors at Leb'non Springs, and be
can't afford TO gin 'em all away to usboys
fur nothin.
That's SO, says Sammy, thonghtfal like
Then he whistled tune called Ameri-
can Taxsshun; recken you've heered
ii, beln' singer yourself. You don't
know me, guess know James G. Clark
| heered you sing last night, and we're
goin' sein' tonight. The EN- songs went
clear down to me toes. Ny Sal bad to
tuse her haukcher MORN once, and when
you suug the Trundle Bad, she cried so
Il wnz wetler'n sop.
What, The Trundle bedI
No, no The hankchcr.
AlIright, | understand now but what
about Sammy and the mu.k melons,
Wall, as was saying, sammy whistl-
ed that old tune, aud Then nothing wuz
aid shout the seiyous ill We come TO
shady plsee, aud all on us sot down TO
piay marbles. Arter awhile sam spoke
up 10 lively way, aud says be, say boys
it wonld be durn mean II any body should
20 to-uig aud steal Uncle lke's ma,h
mel1 ons, but I'm afraid they will cause
you see the patch is ever so fur frsm the
house, aud Uncle Ike never keeps no dog
nutber.
Thsrs so, spoke up three or four Of the
stealiaest little rips in the huh party, all
10 onct.
/ Then Sammy be sung:
III give true -elAshun,
Attend 10 what say,
Conssrnin' The taxashuu
OF Nerh America.
Then be scythed. and says be: Say,
boys, tsis playin' marbles don't pay. We
can't make nothin' Of IL, I've been thIAk-
in how I'd like to 20 iuto the mush mil.
yon bizniz. thiak can sfford TO give
three cents apeice for milyous. just like
them st Uncle lke's, and no qoestions
asked. II any Of you boys has any TO sell
tonight brisg them around 10 dad's barn
store midnight, aud your psy vii be
ready lie cool then, and ia ruthcr do
bzniz sbout even st night than 10 the
beat Of the dsy
4 That sane uightA bt u as boys went
/ TO Uncle lke's aud borfo wed about two
bushels oi bis Rush milyous, and fetch
ed 'em 10 TildeD.s barn aud sold 'em 10
sammy Tor three cents apeice, aud Nose
took 'em 10 L.b'aoa Springs airly uexl