Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-04-19
A CYCLOPEDIA STORY.
Pathetic Scene Witnessed Upon
the Delivery Of Volume z.

Haviu' lived next door to the Hob-r
, place t'r goin' on thirty years, calc late
that l know jest about ez much about the
case as any body else now on airth, except
I'M perhaps It's OF Jedge Baker, and he's SC
b. plaguey old md so powerful feeble that NJ
don't know nothin'.
It seems that in the spring NV 47-the
year that Cy WatsOn's Oldest boy wu2
drowned in West river-ther come along a
book agent selin' volyumes md tracks tr
the diffusion NV knowledge, md, havin' got
the recommend Of the minister md NV the
seleCtmen, he done an ALFRED Big busl-
ness in our part NV the county. His name
wuz Lemuel Higgins, md ne wuz ez likely a
talIzer ez 1 ever heerd, barrln' Lawyer
Coukey nd every body allowed that when
COnkey wuz round he talked so fast that
the town pump I'D have to be creased every
twenty minutes.
One NV the first NV our folks that this
Lemue Higgins struck wuz Leander Ho-
bart Lcauder had jest marr'd one Nv the
Peasley girls, md had moved into the old
homestead on the Plainyille road-old Dea-
con Hobart havin give up the place to him,
the other boys havin' moved out West (lke
a lot o. darued fools that they wuzD. Le-
ander wuz feelin' his oats Jest about this
Hattie" sez he, 81 guess I'll have to lay
i'm a few books FIR readm' in the winter
time, md I've half a notion to subscribe FIR
/ a cyclopeedy. Mr.. Higgins here says they're
/ uvalerabe in a family, and that we orter
uavo 'em."
Waal, to make a long story short, Lean
/ der Oargamed with Mr.. Higgins for set Nv
| them cyclopeedies, md ne signed his name
! to O long printed paper that showed how he
/ agreed to take q Cyclupoedy Oncet in so
often, which Wuz to be Cz often ez a new one
NV the volumes wuz printed A cyclopeedy
/ -n't printed all atoncet, because that would
make IL cost too much; Cousekently the man
/ that gois it up has 1t strung along fur apart
SO as TO hit folks OnCet every year or two
. and giurally about harvest time. So Le-
auder kind NV liked the idee, and he signed
/ the printed paper md made his affidavit toit
/ uiore JCdge Warner
The fusJ volyume of the cyclopeedy stood
on a shelf IN the Old seckertaIy in the set
/ tn'-ro0m about four months before they
had any use FIR It, One night SQUIRE
! Turner's son come over to visit Leander md
Hattie, aud they got to talkiu' about APP
/ pies, md the sort of apples that wuz the
/ best Loandor allowed that the Rhode
/ Island greoum' wuz the best, but Hat
/ the and the Turner boy stuck MP f'r the
/ Royhury russell until at last happy
r,, ft 5,,' Se4 lG'
| ever one the cyclopeedy sez is the best will
settle it,"
"huty Won can't find out nothin' bout Rox-
bury ussctS nor Rhode Island greenln' s IN
our DEu.gpaudy' sel Hattie.
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