Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-12-21


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Storm" and edded
oHoping it's no harm, I've come to IN
terview you"
Come to what -
"IHteruiet5 you"
'Ah l see. Yes-yes. I'm Yes
yes"
| WAS not feeling bright that morning
indeed, my powers seemed a bit uhaer
cloud. However, | went to the bookcase
and. when had been looking six or seven
minutes, l found was obliged to refer to
the young man. said
How do you spell it ~
Spell what 2"
Interview ~
oh, my goodness What do you want
to spell it for - ..a
what it means.
well, this is astonishing, l must say. /
can tell you what 1t means II you'll
you
"Oh, all right That will answer, and
much obliged TO you too.
Il n. in, t g T. ter, inter
Then you spell it with an r.
why, certainly
'Oh, that is what took me so long -
Why, my ,i,r sir what did yoa propose to
spell it with -
well, I'LL hardly know. had the
Unabridged /: and | was ciphering around
in the back end hoping l might tree her
among the pictures. But its very old
edition"
why, my friend, they wouldn't have
picture of it even in the latest e My deal
sir, beg your pardon, | mean no harm in
the world but you do not look as-in-
telhgent as | expected you would No harm
I mean no harm at all.
''Oh don't mention it 1t has been said
and by people who would not Halter, and
who could have no inducement to tistter,
that | am quite remarkable in that way
Yes, yes they always speak of it with rap
ture."
81 can easily imagine it. But about this
interview. You know it is the custom, now
to interview any man who has become noto'
rious.''
Indeed | had not heard OF it before
1t must be very interesting What do you
do it with -
"Ah, well-well well-this is dishesrt-
sning 1t ought to be done with club, IL
some cases but customarily 1t consists IN
the interviewer asking questions, and the
interviewed answering them. Ii Is all the
rage now. Will you let me ask you certain
questions calculated to bring out the sal
lent points of your public and private his
tory?'
''Oh, with pleasure, with pleasure.
have bad memory but hope you will moi
mind that That is to say, 1t is an irregular
memory, singularly irregular memory, singu'
larry irregular Sometimes it goes in gal
lop, and then it will be as much as fort
night passing given point This Is grea
grief TO me.
''Oh it is no matter, you will try to do th'
best you can"
81 will will put my whole mind OF
it,"
Thanks Are you ready to begin ?;
Ready"
QlleStioH. How old are you
Ansrer. Nineteen in June.
q Indeed | would have taken you to be
thirty-five or six. Where were you born
A. In Missouri.
q. When did you begin to write
4 In 1886.
q. Why, how could that be, as you art
only nineteen now
4. don't know. 1t does seem curious
somehow.
O. 1t does indeed. Whom do you con
slider the most remarkable man you eyel
met z
A. Aaron Burr
q. But you never could have met Aaror
Burr, if you are only nineteen years
A Now, if you know more about me thar
| do what do you ask me for
q. Well, it was only q suggestion moth
ing more. How did you happen to NEE
Burr
4. Well, l happened to be at his funeral
l.. H. 81 20 MAZDA lass
noise, and
q. But, good heavens Ii you were al
his funeral he must have been dead and,
if he was dead, how could he care whether
you made noise or not
4, don't know. He was always par
ticular kind OF II man that way.
q. Still, l don't understand it at all
You say he spoke to you, and that he was
dead
A. didn't say he was dead.
Q. But wasn't he dead
A. Well, some said he was some said he
wasn't
a. What do you think
4 Oh, it was none of my business II
wasn't any ofmy funeral.
o. Did you However, we can never
get this matter straight. Let me ask about
something else. What was the date of your
birth
L. Monday, Oct. 81, 1893.
q What Impossible That would make
YOU hundred and eighty years old. How do
you account for that
A. | don't account for it st all.
q But YOU said at first you were only
nineteen, and now you make yourself out TO
be one hundred and eighty. 1t Is an awful
discrepancy
1. Why have you noticed that lStdk ing
hdl.dS) MANY time 1t has seemed to NE
like discrepancy but somehow | couldn't
make up my mind. How quick you notice
a thing
q Thank you for the compliment. AS far
rs it goes Had you. or have you any broth
ers or sisters
4. Eli Ill think SO. yes but
don't remember.
o. Well. that is the most extraordinary
statement | ever heard.
4. Why. what makes You think that
z. How could think otherwise Why,
look here Who is this a picture of on the
wall Isn't that brother OF yours
l. oh, yes. yes, yes Now you remind
me of it, that ,rdS brother of mine. That S
William, BIZ We called him. Poor old Bill
q Why, is he dead, then
/. All, well, suppose SO. We never could
tell There was great mystery about
II.
Y That is ai,very sad. He disappeared,
then
4. Well, yes, in u sort of general way.
We buried bin.
q Barred him Buried him without
knowing whether he was dead or not
/. oh, no Not that. He was dead
enough
q Well | confess that | can't understand
this. If you buried him, and YOU know he
WAS dead.
l. No, no We only thought he was.
O. Oh, see He came To life again
4. | bet he din't
O. Well | never heard anything like tins
Somebody was dead Somebody was buried.
Now, where was the mystery
4. All, that's Just it That's 1t exactly I,
You seq we were twins, detunct and | , and
We got mixed in the bath-tub when we were
only two weeks old, and one OF us was
drowned. But We didn't know which.
Some think it WAS Bill some think it WAS
me.
q Well. that IS remarkable. What dc goa
think
A. Goodness knows would give whole
mystery has east gloom over my whole life
But will tell you secret now, which have
never revealed to any creature before. One
of us had peculiar mark, a large mole on
the back OF his lelt hand ; that was me- That
tiili .ruS he one thn t-d> drotrEed
w. Very we'll then | don't see that there