Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-01-30
IN THE WINDOW,
Copyright, 1894, by Edgar w. Nye.l


less game, while the monarch himself
! intending to racket the ball of the chic
lady in waiting, hauls off to swat hi:
own with great vigor, and, Judging
drives the royal bunion back three years
growth, while he hops across the GROUND
on one foot, holding the other to his Dos
ON and falling over the arches till the
court has to be called to order.
Even down to the days of the Stuarts
this street was only country ramble
where one could go out and stroll with 6
fair one and have to kick several slum
bering cows out of the way every few
rods. Not till the reign of William an6
Mary did it become street.
Now it does quite business, besides
being well provided especially with
clubs I believe that the following are
on Pail Mall-viz: The United Service
club, the Ath9neum club, the Travellers
club, the Reform club, the Carleton club
the Oxford and Cambridge club, the
Guards club, the Beaconsfeld club, the
New Ath8neum club, the Wanderers
club, the Junior Carleton club, the Army
and Navy club and the Marlborough
club. In addition to all these clubs on
Pail Mall, the Prince of Wales lives on
this street.
St. James street has II clubs, and else
where there are several more. Then
there are the Geological gardens besides.
I am up here for two weeks.
You cannot get into the Geological
gardens, all the time. They are not open
day and night. presume that the ami
mails appear no doubt at various other
places, as the music hall people do, piec-
ing out their salaries in that way. On
Sunday afternoon I went to the gardens
with an idea of fooling with the blue
nosed baboon of Barbary and the sa-
cred COW of India. Surely, said to my
self, the sacred COW will receive on Sun
day. So paid 9 shillings to a cabman,
whose pneumatic tire had about six inch
es broken out of it. We rode three miles,
and the gatekeeper told me that I could
only get in on Sunday with ticket from
member.
asked if ticket would be best from
ono of the carnivora or a pachyderm.
He then made me understand that must
get ticket from member of the socie-
ty, but before I got back with one the
gates had closed for the day and the an
imals gone to their dressing rooms.
A good friend at home sends me a
New York state paper with the weekly
correspondence of "Joab" from Haskins-
vile, N. Y, and it is so different in it's
unfettered and colty cussedness from the
London Times that insert it here as q
good fair sample of American CORE
spondence from the provinces. Some
may not enjoy these things, but I hon.
estly delight in them and am now TAX
ing three Florida papers and several 9th
ers published by colored fellow citizens
of the south, which furnish me with
more pure joy without relapse than
anything | know of. The printer is re-
quested not to correct the spelling or
grammar.
The item about Joe Webb is bit am
biguous, but the vivid word painting re-
garding the fair will be relished even by
philologists and bibliephiles, reckon:
JOAB'S JOTTINGS.
HASKINSvILLE, N. Y.
Mr.. Cal Ketcham, formerly of Rogersville,
later of California, graduated at the Rogers
vile seminary, then went to war, was wound
ed in first Bull Run fight, taken prisoner by
surveyor by the government, is visiting at Rog-
krsvile. =
Our road commissioner Is doing good work
on the roads. Has cleared away the debris
from the front of Joab's barn.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. AL Coddington, a man
baby. | understand DR.. E. Whine says it Is
feet and inches tall. That is the report and
no joking, editor.
Walter Collins of our city is attending col
lege at Keuka lake. The 7th of next month Is
l. ;-Al, 4 hox 1xn ~ nvAA
have breakdown birthday party.
Willie Collins keeps right on sparkling as
though nothing had happened. Grasshoppers,
1routh, hailstorms, have nothing to do with 1t.
Joe Webb went out to shoot woodchuck.
they were both killed by the one shot, the re-
suit was chicken pie.
The fare at Naples was big thing. There
were on exhibition 9cows, an old sow and
pigs, 80 or 40 sheep around in the swamp, one
span of mules, one old breeding mare with her
colt, one yoke of stays hitched to a bobsled.
The fair GROUND is on low ground, there are
some bitches around the track to carry off sur
face water down, about midway Of the track
was few seats. Across the track was an old
bulk head out of some sawmill or some oil der.
rick which was called the judges stand. Proxs
unity to that was an old sawmill saw elevated
and ladder close at hand with an old stove
poker hanging which was used for bell. The
Soldiers Home Band occupied those seats
when the signal was given for music the man
on the derrick would grab the poker and whang
the old saw, at which time they would call
for the music. Some times so or 40 would come
In from fishing and hunting woodchucks. There
were three horses on the track, their time as
followsi First $50 next 4:49; third 5:14. Purse
for first horse $3.50; second. $500; third $1.5O.
There was a Stragten horse come onto the
ground after noon. He won a sack of buck
wheat flour. His time was $40. Major Crosby
was present figuring on the water works. Re-
spectfully, JoAB.
The following communication and po-
EN- find in my mail this morning. /
take great pleasure in putting the poem
and letter in these columns, for they
both breathe spirit of unshackled af-
fiatus that is all too rare in this age of
conventionality. It comes to me here in
the old world as breath of new mown
hay and wild thyme might kiss the cheek
of worn and cynical statesman whose
boyhood was in the meadows of the far
away country and who bathed his feet
in the dew that hung upon the slender
blades of the blue grass and wallowed in
the warm and fragrant hay.
Carping critics may say that the au-
thor's meaning il not always clear, but