St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-22
The Qui1ldrivers, Outing.

The editors of old Vermont
Set out upon a summer jaunt;
Babe farewell to books and files
And started for the Thousand Isles;
In still st. Adams staid one night
And heard the Owls with great delight,
Who drove away long since the gloom
That came down with the crack of doom;
And now when Brother Gibbs regains
A cheerful view of weather vanes,
The lovely town will seem so fair
That Washington will not compare.
The ride to Ogdensburg revealed
How we'll it is to be well heeled-
To H0bartize road, as 'twere,
And make a journey but a whir.
The Adirondacks, Lake Champlain,
Montgomery fert, St. Lawrence plain,
The mills and kilns of Chateaugay,
The fields of hops and stacks of hay
All fitted past us like the CLEANS
OF trout in Almon Wheeler's streams,
And ere we thought it was a stretch
We reached the burgh that drops the al"
The Seymour house made all inclined
To see more there, so we'll we dined.
We little thought, when homeward set
We'd have to do it with regret,
Because a Lake Ontario squall
Delayed the beat for Montreal.
But be it know n to every sort
A Tallman cannot we'll be short.
In fifteen minutes man and child
To change of route were reconciled.
'Twixt Ogdensburg and Gananoque,
Of that is French as she is spoke,,
The Lotus and the "Wanderer"-
Delightful boats as all concur
An archipelago explored
And showed us Paradise restored.
o, fairy land of visions bright!
An upper realm in calm delight;
Where fairest acres broaden down,
Encircling here and there town,
And majesty rolls on between
The smoothest banks of living green;
Where gay fantastic palaces
Seem floating on the CLASSY seas,
And airy bridges arch the dome
Ger crystal pools 'twixt home and home;
where fir-erowned hills and ivied rocks
Make deep canals with open looks,
And steam, the modern gondolieT,
Awakes the echoes with his cheer
So pass we in gorgeous dream
This panorama of the stream.
A house that's built upon rock
Can stand an ordinary shock;
The pOrters, marked 1000 ISLES"
All met us with ,000, 900 smiles.
The 'Phat Boy" shouted from the wharf
Receive the welcome of tie dwarf"
And when the portals opened wide
Rv musie marched we all inside
To find ourselves already roOmed
And fame as diners amply doomed.
We marked the house the highest notch,
AS nothing lacking but watch,
And, ever ready to divide,
A lady soon the want supplied.
There's nothing mean about our set
And when we lose we never fret.
The house outside is painted red
And so the Clipper goes to bed,
But in the parlOr, midst the girls,
The Boston Journal whirls and whirls,
Until we wonder on which side
Twill light but think it will divide.
Great Scott, and greater Mrsi
OF all the funny crowds this is
The funniest There is no dearth
Ofentertainment and of mirth.
We do not crow, but CrOwell might,
For he has earned and got the right.
Perhaps we do not sing; tits old;
No chestnuts if you please; behold,
Three whistling Marys in a row
Is not a cheap and common show.
The colors that adorn each breast
Though rich and pure are not our best;
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There's nothing for Vermont like Greene,
IT'S Standard and will hold it's own,
Who thinks it fresh will wish he'd known,
And if we e'er the rapids shoot
Well send it on to mark the route.
In further proof lifes not in vain,
Behold our senatorial Swain.
When honors call him, ring the chimes,
His better half will make the Times,
And thus we'll doubly benefit
By wisdom, sweetness, worth and wit.
We estimate st. Johnsbury's Stone
OF all her weights the truest one;
But here discretion hesitates
And courage shrinks from all de Bates.
For none can name him but to praise
And that is fatal nowadays.
The Plat Boy jokes all things in life
Like Benedict without his wife,
But that's the worst that can be said
OF him we recognize as head.
The hero history that he writes,
And helped to make, all praise invites;
But more than that, his daily toll,
And burning of the midnight oil,
Have led and kept us in the light
And won great victories for right.
This work the state can ne'er repaV.
Let's make him governor some day,
And show the lawyers, great and small,
A clean example for them ALL