Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-23

l rods upon the Green and then go after the antique academy, giving the family short
 notice to quit; put then as you will the town
 house north and the academy further west
 and south, both looking to the shore and
 facing the other buildings like partners in 8
 dance. Give the academy two chimneys
 with open freplaces built out into the room,
 and outside set the corder that measured the
 scant tax wood thrown between the posts
 Look up an old-fashioned schoolm'am to put
 into it, with mahogany ruler and dunce l block, and give her dozen or two uproari- | ous, old-fashioned infants. The poets moth 1 CT, Mistress Halleck, taught here and some
 now living remember how they held the ruler l ing red cloak and fools cap. Be sure and
 leave room for the reception which Lafayette ] held in 1894 on this part of the Green.
 l Now take an hour of nooning and these who will must need go to the nearest corner 1 for some old-time "cordial" Resuming work, restore next the redoubtable double 1 Iigged old double decker built in ITO: it l should stand near the intersection, north and 1 east of the two main walks in the upper part | of the Green. Be careful and put the belfry it is impossible to put it within-facing ] south, and make it one hundred and fifteen l feet high, with plenty of slack rope to the i bell, and let that be rather of sombre timber l and little cracked; ring the twelve o'clock dinner hour and the curfew at nine Put entrances west, south and east, but don't let the men sit with the women and see that the l Christian colored folk mount into the high | sky gallery. Mind and put in the stepping down place at the entrance where young brides remember to this day how they l stubbed their slippered toes at weddings. Have few tithingmen, couple with long reaching poles, to tend the double galleries and tonch noisy boys the head Bring back the stons horse block-Who knows where it is?-that stood till lately before the Johnson house. It once caught the pretty feet of ancient Lydias and Sarahs as they sprang from their billions and stood con sciousiy poised a moment to shake down their dresses and take up the step for the old Foundation church." Restore here, if you please, the early Hili house, whose founda- tlons recently appeared upon the removal of tie Johnson house. Then turning half around, set up the Ward mansion in the open space. on the opposite corner. Don't sit down now, but go on and block up Church street and take away the Baldwin store and house, built for 8 stage house about 1S13 Replace then nearer the site of the store the stone church of the Fourth society, memori- al of Dr. Sprout and some of the F. F.'s of Guilford. Now let some native juggler di- vert attention, and don't be afraid but bold ly carry off the North church and set there in it's stead Lot Benton's house. and uncover the family well that is still pitted under it.
 On the west side of the green restore the little toy Sabba day house on the late site of
 
 hungry outsiders bring their scant Sunday | lunch, and eat their toast and toast their 1 feet, and gossip the noon away there as for merly. At the lower end of the Green, on the knoll midway there, put back the stun 1 py. wooden Episcopal church, built in 1745, l wish it's arched windows and plain barn. 1 finish and gallery circling three sides around l Let there be no mistake; 10 cupola nor bell, | nor horse block, nor grass plot in front where l other Lydias and Sarahs and Nathaniels drove l up to the door. Fence it in and further sep arate it with a of full grown poplars: l give It its own graves and messy stones, and 1 outside let the heapy mounds extend up and l down, reaching from the lower end and rang ing across from the Seward place in the up per part. Also run a fence across just above the blue post. And here at the south end l put in an old school-house that nobody re- members, facing north. Now make Whit field street into lane grown up to mullen ! and ditchweed. And that reminds me; let 1 stramonium grow as high as your head in the | upper part of the Green. Be sure and put 1 in two red willow trees and buttonball be- 1 fore the Dutton house, all on the Green, and | poplars a plenty circling about the Episcopal | church as aforesaid
 And new drive on the geese, the COWS, the l follow Al1t. mind them. Finally let the work of recreation rest till we see if it is good
 ssah Sesn naa GpifsIa ts SGssa M i4 GasR being turned in to eat off the grass. The rest was bit of wild full of hollows and hummocks, and puddled up with ponds. Water stood nine months in twelve the lower west side, where Thelas Wards smithshop was nearest neighbor to Browns pond. Along the upper west side the road was sunkSdown full two feet below the present level, and deep second blowing has brought up chips from the street woodpiles that once lay in sprawling order on and around the Green. Below the lower Hale bp ball nrdi danced for joy and Guilford damsels learned virtue and grace together. The balls and goings on were then so great it is 6 matter of history that little girl was sent up to Bluff to learn arithmetic.
 Children with store bundles tucked under the arm would loiter at the four corners of the Green to see the operations around the whipping post and the crowd there giving moral support to the gadsman. Men still living remember the whipping by Sheriffs Chittenden and Stone of grey-haired fellow from North Guilford for the dogs crime of sheep stealing. For so neighbors whipped neighbors publicly on the bare back, as to- day they do in Delaware and China. On
 training days the militia came out with their
 rude trappings and torches, filling the air with rub-a-dub and horses heels. The ne
 grees yearly made their mimic display of the election parade and daily the round wheeled stages with four-hoofed horses tore across the Green, shaking it with their awful coming and going.
 The last burial on the public square in 1918. The elms were set out around it in 1924, In digging post holes for the new fence some skulls were dug out where the | line verged along the outmost graves. In 1880 the common raised to it's present level and all buildings were removed except ! the Episcopal church, which was gotten off | in 1888.
 The movers of this reform were the lead CTS of their day, living on and near the ! Green; among them Elliotts, Bradleys and | Landons, Major Lathrop and Messrs. Griffin, | Futile and Todd.
 | Now on Sabbath the bells fill the air with l chiming and the Green is alive with church goers crossing each others steps with pious zeal, sober-faced, somberly clad the little l files hurrying nervously along and pinehing ! through the stileposts. But on week days 1 boys build bonfres, moping owls boot from 1 the trees, and on a still June night, when the | hangbiras are in their nests and the squirrels are at rest, and the night watchman and the ! moon are out, and ''the tree shadows walk, " | then the forms of other days rise out of the
 mold and move softly about and look quiz
 zingly around upon the uew weird beauty of 1 Guilford Green. H. P. R. | Ladies', Misses and Chtldrenss Slip- !