The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-06-06
Hooker Halloo, Central!
Central. Halloo! What is it?

Hooker. Halloo, Central!
Central. Halloo! What is it?
III Give me the hero of the Cente
nial Celebration.
Q, OF course you mean Col, Levi /
4 Fuller?
II. Certainly! How stupid!
G. All right, here you have him.
H. Halloo, Levi!
Leci (Sotto roce)Zounds? Who is
calling me "Levi?" (Aloud) Who is it?
H. George Washington Hooker.
L. Halloo, George. What's up now:
H. 0, l only wanted to talk with yo,
a little, Levi. How do you get alon,
with your electrical experiments?
L. o, splendidly, George, splendidly
I've already discovered spots on the au
FORA borealis, and
IL. Is that sop l congratulate YOU
Levi, but the SITTER say that there ar,
spots on the old shebang," and it wants
to know If it is verdigris.
L. Hang the SITTER What do Won
want to be all the time throwing that in
my face for? And that old "shebang"-
why the devil don't "Wash" pitch it into
the river? And that dum'd Army and
Navy Journal is as bad as that lying SIF-
TER. You know, George, there wasn't
any verdigris on those pieces. 1t all grows
out of jealousy. Ever since hurled back
Pickett and saved Gettysburg it has been
SO; and you know, George, that if l
hadn't saved that field you never would
have been able to have taken Richmond.
And yet some miserable cur is all the time
barking at my heels-.jealous of my hard
aarnad --.li.s.. ssInn1...- T onn,+ o.. ..,,,f
with my battery without some dun news
paper crying, verdigris-dum 'em!
II. Well, WELL never mind Levi, wen
fix 'em, yet. But tell me about your elec-
tric discoveries. What causes the spots
on the aurora borealis?
L. George, am afraid you are not
well enough posted to appreciate it. You
know there is good deal of difference he.
tween you and me. You are not near SO
high up in military and scientific matters
as l am. If do say it, l am fast out
ranking the leading scientists in the
world. But I'll tell you all the same. but
| wouldn't have you say anything about
1t for the world-not just yet But Pye
demonstrated-now not whisper about
it, George, if that internal SITTER should
get on to it I'd never hear The last of it
that these spots-this is wonderful rev.
elation I'm going to give you-were caus-
ed-by the gulf stream.
III. (Solloquising)T The egotistical fool
tie don't know as much as Thompson's
'olt, yet he's been lieutenant Governor.
Ind l can't get higher than selectman.
But I'm obliged to hold on to him so as
o get the help of ''the shops" to obtain
What little 1 do get (Aloud) Why, this
wonderful, what next will you do?
L. Well I'll tell you, George, I'm 90
ng to run newspaper by electricity.
II. What?
l.. l know it seems strange to you, not
eing versed in modern science. but {
an GO it. | guess when that dun Shanks
ees the old "shebang" illuminated from
ellar to garret and our old press, that
as stood in there so long idle, run by
lectricity and throwing off double quarto
heets, the miserable cuss will want to
rawl into his hole 8
ID. l hope you are not going to have /
lat Harrington edit it, again.
L. Not 1! I've had enough of him.
GU know how, by the help of that stink
g SITTER, he made us pay that eighty !.
,llars that we owed him-and Pm ex-
'ctlng every day there will be call, n
ON The same source, to pay our compos-
ors board bill, owing to Converse. O. Iii
y George, I'm going % edit it by elec- II
icity. v
H. What! Edit it by electricity?
L. Certainly! No editor to give MS A.
ay! No compositors to run up unhan- u
board bills! I'll only have to press g
ltton and everything will be turned ont II
my liking. v;
IL. God bless you, Levi! You'll let et
press the button some, won't you, YOU b,
ar, good fellow? If YOU succeed in
IS then we, both, can get our lust de- -,
'ts-Wh-r-r-r( Orer the ape.piae) Then :
al both be- hung-Wh-r-r-r- ST
L. Kun, George, run. o, that - III
ipe-vine. IL