The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-19
QUITE ABLE IN THEIR AGE.
Who Can Still MAKE the
Hay Fly.

ling along Bloomfield avenue at windsor
recently, saw an eXbib tion of old fash
Toned haying that surprised aud amused
him. Two hale and gallant old gentle
men in smooth open lot by the roadside
were swinging the scythe like sixty, but
they were agood deal older than that
ana the stranger was sure of it.
Accosting q Windsor wayfarer, he
pointed to the haSticld and inquired: :
WHO are the smart old men over there
and how old are they2"
WALL replied the Windsor man,
they are the boss haycrs about here.
On" IS Mr. Prcu;iCe Of Court street, and
hes 81 last March; and the other 10 his
nciShbor, Mr., Laugdon of Maple avenS>>
aud Inc woo a. bout -urvutf,s-utyv-,
Hay it yeti Wall. Course they kern't
hay 1t as they used ter forty years ago
but you kin bauk on it there amt no
Young fellows round here that wants to
buckle outer suath and foller 'em all
day no W; lookip' just as they do this miu
ue. Yer hear me-"
AS genuine old-style Connecticut
"hayers" Messrs. Lapgdon and Prentice
have quite reputation all about Windsor:
they have the old fashioned, easy swing
ing style with the scythc, and tho swing
ing, gliding, swift gait that modern
mowers know is monstrous hard to keep
ur with all day. The old men are no
only ncighbors, but life long friends, and
hey were moving the Frisbie lot in
Windsor at the time the stranger saw them
on account of a mutual resolution to "try
'hc old scythe' and see whether they had
forgotten the way to swing il yet.
There's DOthiOU yprv wonderful how-
ever, about rugged old fellows doing
mems work all day on Connecticut farms
=! re are lots of them in the Land OF
Steady Habits. There are many octogen.
arians aud few nonogenarians who la
Dor all day all the year around, and there
are others just Ss vigorous, whom, how
ever, only the exiecncies Of the hayiug
season bling to the front among ConueC
ticut ,oilers. There is Ephraim Newell
of Ellington, in lofty Tollald county
one day recently, and celebrated the
cradle and grading just one acre of stou,
rye in the forenoon of the day. S iii
one of his neighbors, speaking of the old
mans vigor: "Why, he not only cut the
Cleanest CLIP OF all the men who workeu
right around men who are not more thrn
one half his age. 1t was . boiling
hot day, too"
1t is fact that the best rye GRADER in
New London county is q man over St
row, o feet 2 inches tall, and with the
FULL plump muscles Of man of 40 In
!hc same county is Francis Brown, of
Norwich, who IS 80 years old, and who II
week ago Cradlcd an acre of rye on his
farm near that city. Gilbert Chandler,
of Putnam, Windham county, recently
celebrated the cishtlcth anniversary of
his birthday, aud the day before that in
cidcnt he shingled Que roof OF his house
alone. Then there is Deacon BENJAMIN
Browu, of Brooklyn village, in the same
county, who. his neighbors think, is
rather too frisky; he is s5 years old, and
his friends say he is regular boy yet
ne takes chances that would appall some
of The modern dudes OF iS or 20. So he
got run away with the other day, driving
in his usual reckless style, and got "hove
out" the Brooklyn folks put it. He fell
on heap of stones, and was bruised
about his side and shoulders Most men
would have been done up by the acci.
dent, but the Deacon was at work about
his farm day or two later.
But old Mr.. Lyman Tolles, of Tolles
Station, Tcrryville, isperhaps the nifticst
old boy in the State. lie is over 80
years old and was hayin' it every day
this week in the hot open fields Of his
farm. where the temperature over-topped
the number of his years by more than 10
degree. Tic is strong and tough as sole
leather, and steps about rs briskly as a
boy. At Plainvillc is Michael Cullen,
who rides bicycle ike the wind. but he
is young, Of c"u'Sc. being only II. He
goes to and from his business daily on
his wheel, and ordinary riders are not
anxious to tackle him for running bout
In the same town is Mrs. William New
ton, who rides horse daily, and her
hardihood and ambition are worth not
rng, because she is IS. At the village OF
South Killingly is Mr.. Schuyler, SO, who
has got the measles, and the joke of it is
he has all there are in Connecticut
Therefore nc would like to know how he
got them. He's got 'em mild. however.