The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-05-25


"REMINISCENCES OF DOCTOR" STEVENS, OF
LEWISTON.
A Lewiston Journal scribe has recently served
up "reminiscences of every day life of the Lew
lston of half century ago. Wequote as follows
from his interview with a gentleman whom he
calls 1.-THE Ma ior"-
According to our interesting friend. the Ma
lor, the Baron Mmchausen of Lewiston, the
champion of all the inventors of fables who
ever tlouriShcd in this county, was one ''Doc-
tor Stevens. The ''doctor' was a tall. spare
and grizzly Yankee, who acquired his profess
sional title by his skill in mendng tail kitchen
clocks and doct0ring disabled furniture. His
favorite surgical instruments We're draw shave
and Il ioiner-plane. He was village carpenter
and puttcrer, but rcloCrd III the medicinal prefix
which was invariably accorded TO his name. He
was an industrious, sober, and well-behaved
toWnsman. 1t is related of him that he told
his stupcndOuS yarns so repeatedly, each time
ornamcnting them with some new flourish. Sug-
geStcd, perhaps, by listener. whereby there
was Il constant gain in effect. that he finally be-
lieved them himself and if presumptuouS
listener should have limited there might be an
apocrypha faint i'll any part of the doctors all-
photography, such an in'liscreet person would
have met with whitening and deserved rebuke
one of the doctors fayore warns, as restored
by ''thc Major. is, in the ioctors own language,
Very nearly as follows
During the war between France and Eng
land, happened to be in Demarara. | met,
there, the captain of an English frigate who in
Nlted me aboard and we sailed out of the harbOr.
We had not made very far. before we discover
cda French ship i'll the distance. She bore down
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