The Republican journal., 1888-09-06
Ar Old Time Road Race.

a3o. he ieids were deoFly-coycred. and nigh
uIlits i'N aiohS lhc fences and filled the mar
row cross roads. The sun >honc with ,}prula,,
brightness !rom lis southern ,ropic on the little
fro>t crystals which gathered bv night over the
fields Of snow making them glitter like diamonds
~ the beautiful morning ravs. SO It fingered
Wlthits nieilo" blaze till the roads on the busy
lhoroughiGre> of The Stat, were firm, .nI
smooth. an'i rang out with the sound If bells.
the tread If horses feet. ana the sweet Iauoi,-
ter of youth.
ON the NEST beautiful morning oi this pleas
aht WiitcT-and. 70 he very precise. Christmas.
SUNDAY. December p III the year Of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and tifty-iircc--
harley DAVIS sat in a stage tavern in the town
Of Na>Saboru. locking cut on the beauty of
the day. He had noticed the bright sunshine.
the crisp tread Of the snow a> the country
folks had goLt ley on their WAY to nlpctinp and
hAd thought Of The ride he would have from
there to Bangor some forty miles. and of the
rou5h-co;.tci lay mare who would pull him
over the hill. 10 The music Of the merry tink-
ling bells.
The morning was calculated to infuse en-
thu>ia>lN INTO speculate or poetic mind and
how t" make The ride most enjoyable to a Young
sia@cdr|"r. with no fair passenger O. prospect
of a race. seemed to puzzle the boy: for boy
he was. Not out of his teens.
i'utting on his great coat ic started for The
door. " hcre th1 sound OF quick driving bells
echoed through the Old stage inn. an,; four fast
turn cuts for these ,.a>, filled the tavern door
yard.
The drivers were men Of great renown in
those days a. intrepid road drivers. Many
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drove: Jnhn Goddard, another lum!,9rman, ana
Frank Adams. who also bad made wealth on,
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over 1h@ !vDg hin >he kept If this gait to the.
TOT Ni the next. Away ahead again She
the foiir >ei-h~ Ne nearer; The ears moved
quirkl! forward aud back. hen flat down aS
,lie in9h the h iii>e mad creature and started
on Inc run; no use 10 Try to hold her: only
over them woul,i she >Ilcilcu one iqf Of s,,led.
The box WAS eninyinn thc ride: three miles
n!u.e anI Shaw Mad Given hin, thr ro1.!
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