The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-06-23
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THIS COLUMN Is OPEN TO ALL.
For Th" Cecil Wing.
Some Notes by an UnprOfessional Tramp.

"Then if ever come perfect days So
wrote fellow some where up among the
green mountains, when he wanted to write
a .'poem y that be could sell for cash, and
so took June for his subject. Well
these perfect days" have come again just
as perfect as ever, and Thursday, l4th, was
one of the most perfect of the let, and we
don't believe old Nature will ever be able
to excel it, and let her do her level hest.
About the middle of the day referred to
we found ourselves in the far famed village
of Rising sun by the way, Mr.. Editor,
isn't that Il queer name for a village where
the sun don't rise bit oftener or bit bet
ter than it does any where else. We passed
a large brick house pretty soon, and 10 the
yard was full of company sitting about on
chairs and settees and roots Of trees, and
nobody was playing croquet, either, but
everybody was listening to a red headed
chap, who stood on the front steps, talking
with all his might. Your correspondent
drew near to hear what he was saying.
We thought perhaps it was the host "giv-
ing it " to his Citations for all coming to
see him at once, and reflected that they
might be Philadelphians paying up old
Centennial scores. We had not listened
long until we found out our mistake. for
the man wasn't scoldlng anybody but the
tavern keepers, the moderate drinkers, and
the drunkards. He didn't seem to know
exactly which of the three, as a class, he
ought to come down on the heaviest. He
wasn't a reformed drunkard, however, he
told us. And then he told 4 very remarka-
bic story in very remarkable manner
about when he was q boy, and Thought he
would buy glass of ale, and lie couldn't
drink it all after he had paid for it, much
to his regret, and how, what he did drink,
made him think he was going up stairs all
the time, although he was really walking
on the level. Much more he said which
your correspondent couldn't send you per-
batim ct lHeratun1, and so prefers to send
not at all.
After the sandy man got through and
wound up, much to the satisfaction of
everybody, a pompous d. d., of Oxford,
threw out an enormous qu;d of tobacco,
and. mounting the steps, pitched into the
whisky trade with fiery zeal. Your CORE
spondent is a terribly old fashioned pro-
duction, and Immediately fell to thinking
that, when the reformers, alias murphy
movers have persuaded everybody to quit
drinking whisky, gin and rum, they should
draw up "a t0jacco pledge and pass it around.
We would liked to have staid to see the
end and heard all the pretty pieces that the
band played, but there is no rest for the
tramp, the soul of the wandering Jew pos
sesseth him, and 50 we left the company in
the yard listening TO the d. ID. and strollsd
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fair grounds at the north erd of fine town
and Tememherino that we had \ solitary
marian in orr nants nocket which n oen,
erous farmer had Given ms for dioginc nota-
toes, we resolved to spepd it and tramp in
to see the great arricujtura] show Of Ches.
tor county
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salf not fsr fron1 0xford and invited tLe
rnvinr corrasnondant to no to d;nner We
,ant 70 IittIa stau oS boo,h aInno tho
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tracted onr notice. that man actually ate
six MES eioh. risk seventeen slices OF
boiled ham and twenty sancers of ice cream.
also drinking ten cups of coffee. From his
conversation he turned ont to be from old
Cecil. He came near cleapiuo out the eat.
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