New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-04
mar NV ~ GAENSTABLE.

Tic s,iprriufruacnt Of tie Barusiablc Mass
t'pion sunday school j. conservative man, bn'
IA. estimate. that tie work among tie lhrnNtAnl'
youth hi. hecm pat back ~ least four years. me
H,ru,f,blc small hoy laS always been about ~
bad e., ANYTHING u Tie State. aggressive aS a
bu1lsaw aud puanaciops os "A Gamr-r"'N p'' VI
late Great improvement has been made IN hl"l'
when suddenly what should happen 10 undo II
al bu, that "Gnndpa" wilkins and lncle
Icrry Sutfon. the two patriaIchS Of the town.
sbouA get into a h4ht right IN the lPtrrS Nori
and Ccht an around the house and halfway
ocros, the strickland every small boy IN Barn
stable looking on and yelling nj tie top oI MS
voice The supcriutcndcnis estimate that ~"
Snndav-school work Ii back where il was t'ar
years ago is probably we'll within bounds
II all came about on account OF The recent sp''I
If hot weather Grandpa wilkins is conservative"
and good deal of lrssimlst, while lhcl' Jerry
sutton IS a hi, of radical and invariably opt-
nii,iic in his Jews. Grandpa wilkins holds that
yc don't have any snch hot weather as We did
when he was youn--whcn a hot spell comes along
hc always pooh poohs it and threatens I" 20 mp
in the attic and get his red yarn mltt"ns ont OF
thc cedar chest. lie il fond ol telling how, IA
lo?s they had 10 shear the sheep every month
all summer because il too warm Tor th'm
Sometimes be puts this in 1872, az other times
IN 1916 and when excited has been known 10
Mace i, away back soncAher before what lie
invariably speaks of ms the War, meaning the
War of 1872 always referring 10 the late Re
| bcllion as that Strimmagc down South there
somewhere" Uncc Jerry on the other hand,
holds that the weather is getting warmer all the
| time ON 4 hot day lac takes oil his shoes aud
stociingS, puts on pair of carpet slippers ana
| sits in the shade and fans himself with copy
| of The ,arnstablc Postbpy ami Planters Gazette.
| When Grandpa Wilkins tells his sheep story
| Uncle Jerry recalls the summer of 1919, wien
they couldn't shear their sheep at all for fear
they would take cold Even as late MS 1888 he
remembers seeing sheep blnnkctcd in July, and
! then they baa-cd with the cold.
Wednesday OF last Wecl was n warm day in
! Barnstabc. About noon Grandpa Wilkins came
! along with woollcn comforter" around his neck
| and remarked to Uncle Jerry, who sat under
a tree PLYING 80 The rostDoy," that it appeared 10
bc getting cooler lnclc Jerry looked at him
| scornfully and asked him if - in the shade
looked as if it was getting cooler. Grandpa
| wilkins buttoncd up his coat and said he went
more by his feelings than by these new tangled
thermometers, but thermometer or no thermometer,
! he hadn't heard of anybody having to rcshcar his
sheep like they did II. the Summer of - Uncle
Jerry replied sarcaStically by asking him il ne
! had SEEN anybody building bonircs in the sheep
pastures rs they had 10 do in the summer of
| IS He followed this up by Offering 10 bet
! his jacll-knife against Grandpa Wil>ns's that the
thermometer would he up to Ito in the shade at
! o'clock. Grandpa wilkins instantly answered
| that he would take the waecr, though II wouldn't
be much if it was. rs it was up to ~ in Boston
in II Then he sncclcd and said he must get
into the house before he took cold. and started
of home.
Uncle Jcrry's Thermometer hung on the north
side of the woodshcl. directly over knOt-holc
! About half past the guilrcsS old fellow pat
a brick into The Kitchen fire few minutes
before 3 o'clock the brick was about As
hot it is possible for brick TO get in a
| kitchen fire. Uncle Jerry took it out with the
tongs, and with the aid of PAIR of buckskin
! gloves fastened wire around it and hung it
mp inside the wOodshed that it covered the
knot-holc the inside as the thermometer did
OH the outside; then he went back under the