The Press., 1888-02-23
Issued Every Thursday Evening.

come jinglin' along the road some on one would shout
 "Here it comes!"
 Then we'd all run to the door and see We got fooled that way more'n dozel times guess, in as many minutes; but see here, when it did come, we knew it They come up like a streak-them horse did-and you'd think they come iron Banbury Cross by the double aud twistet jingle of them bells. Besides them tw, big strings the horses both had a whop pin big bell right in front of them, as bil as-that See?
 But we didn't notice much about tha then. No, sir. We just hustled down anc got aboard quicker'n you could say JacI Robinson. Some went in head first anC some heels first, but we dIdn't care how if we only got there. Course we didu' think to help bring down the soap-stone and things, ln all that muddle-ge boy scramblin' in over the sides, and every which way. So the big girls come luggin em along down, while teacher locked the school-house. The boys ought to hay, been ashamed of themselves to let tn, girls do it. And about the seats, but they didn't think thing about it then.
 And how many do you think got aboard You wouldn't believe it, but there wa, thIrty-two in all besides the teacher and 1 the driver, and twelve little ones that couldn't go, because-they couldn't-colds or something like that. We wondered where the teacher was goin' to sit, but she didn't. She said there was "room to stow away as many mDre-centenuial fashion ' Two or three had to sit ill laps, but there were lots of "rats" sure enough. The driver he brought along d lot, and, by Gemini you'd have thought we were al rats by the equealin' we made as we start ed off. We waved and cheered at Old Bunyan-we hal such a good tune uI | there one day last term scrabblin' over the rocks
 By'me bye we come to real good tip 1 overy place, and some of the girls squeal ed like anything But we didn't go over Teacher said she presumed it wouldn' have hurt us much if we had O! but wouldn't it have been fun though, to see the whole thirty-four of us dumped in a pile there, and all scrabbliu' to get back again Just like girls to squeal at noth. in, ain't it? I'm glad that boys want made that way-very glad.
 Just up there by the new shoddy mill bOardin' house we had to stop for little shaver named Frankie, that skipped of home at recess. His father came along out with him, bringing more "rats :" and the dngs they parked out welcome, and we parked back. Then we all cheered. and the folks down at the house looked good -natured.
 But Smiths shoddy mill had got froze up or sunthin' or other, and hadn't got thawed out. so they want no one there tc enjoy It all. There aUds at the next house thoughFthat nice. whlte oneby the bridge We went by there as still as mice, for there IS sick girl lives there, that's been sick for ever aud ever and ever SO long. But we waved, and waved, and they was ladies inside waving back at us.
 "There she is now," said one of the girls, "wavIn'." So we guessed one oi 'em was her. We hoped so, any way There wouldn't be bit of fun lyin' fiat ou your back sick, and not to see ali the sleigh rides go by, / think.
 We made lots of noise goin along up through Tenneyville, but teacher, sht thought it would sound little more civi lized to go to playin' and singln'. Sc along up through Palmer depot we dld The harmonlcas didn't seem to amount tt much though, the bells jingled so loud But we did our best with them up by th. Weeks House, and the girls sung, and the folks grinned all along the way.
 HOlden's mill want near enough to get any fun out of, nor the depot neither aud, as for Ridges Food for Infants and lnvahds, we wasn't hungry, and we dIdn'l ! call ourselves neither infants nor invalids Nor we didn't think much about tn. l stores either, for just about that time some one looked round and shouted:
 70, my see how funny Old Bunyan Iooks!" And sure enough It didn't look bit natural, I'll tell you. It looked just as ef somebody'd took a big ax and chop ped off the end. Perhaps somebody did to make room for the state house. Maybe the Quaboag river might have told ue somethin' about 1t. It cuts up shines enough nowadays anybow-comes way up over the road sometimes, and folks have to go way round to get anywhere. You wouldn't think, to look at it, as you ride over the bridge, that it would be up t, such mean tricks it looks just as pretty So!
 We'll, we soon came to a fountain. O, but it was tiue-alI froze up ever 50 high, with just little sprinkIin' comiu' out at the top. And so we ejingled and chattered along up by Dumpliug mountain,-"Rar- tlesnake mountain" 1t uster be, they say, cause they was so many rattlesnakes there. And we went by the place where, good while ago, they say, woman came out onto the piazza or somewhere, where she had left her little baby asleep in its cradle, and there was a rattler with its head raised right up over tke baby, lookin' at it. The woman ran into the house and got the tongs or somethin', and come out and kill ed 1t the snake mt an-not the baby. s'pose its true, but 1t sounds some like 8 snake story to me, don't it?
 Now what have they got up on top of Dumpling? That was more'n we could make out. Signal flag" some said, but it didn't look bit like a hag-more like a big ball. Wonder if it ain't what they have to make the weather with up in Palmer2
 Down there was the wire mills. They wasn't within hailin' distance; but we went along up by school-house between there and Three Rivers thst was. They was havin' noon there. We didn't give them any kind of a salute but to wave. They did us, though. The boys was out by the road and begged snow. balls at us. They hit one of the girls on the nose.
 "Ain't they horrid Just like a boy r' she said. "But our boys hadn't dast to do such a think, though !'
 Much she knew about it.
 We'll, we travelled along up between the river and the railroad -"Ware River" one boy sad, but 1t want Chicopee. the pe-