The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-21
A TRUTH SEEKER.


he shivered up the snowy stairway in
which the wind was blowing blindly
there was look of worried anxiety in
his face. He knocked at the door of the
slate writing medium and after wait
ing for moment in an anteroom was
ushered into the presence .
Il desire, said the seeker after
truth, ito speak with Philip Augustus
of France, or Frederick Barbarossa of
Germany or Richard of the Lion Heart
They are now IN the spirit world and
have been for 700 years, more or less
can t gust recall their numbers.
The medium went through the usual
form required by the spirits in such
cases and said.
L find that the gentlemen you want
are all talking now, but there is
young man at Richards instrument
who says he would like to communicate
with you
All right, said the seeker after
truth, maybe he will do There is
little matter | want explained, and he
can do 1t n well as anybody What
want to know Is how on earth tho PEG.
pie got along III the days of sheet iron
armor wnen the snow and the cold
winds came
Then there WAS n scratching on the
slate and the medium handed itover to
the truth seeker 1t read
Good That $ just shat want to
tell you My name Is lchabod Potts
lived on earth IN the twelfth century
ard WAS with Richard the Lion Hearted
and Frederick Barharussa and Philip An.
gnstus IN the crusade that lasted from
1889 to l92, ana I'm the man You
want to see There IA lot about that
crusade that history has botched up In
the first place. we called Richard Our
Dick, and Frederick, Reddy, and Philip
oh, we called him several uncomph-
mentary things Do You want the story:
Let me know at once how many words -
Lct her 20 sald the truth seeker as
he looked over the slate and arranged
With the uedlum for tho use of the line
all day
well, began the slate, las SAID,
| am Ichahoa Potts yeoman / lett
London IN llSs, or such a matter, to 90
to Jerusalem with Our Dick Tho boys
always called him that just before a
war Several thousand of Us pull Il ont
and marched across country III the fall
and got down into southern Franco for
tbe v,utor and nv ,ood b,ol. cot tbro,,,b
TIT ,yi,,to,. ,cit5a,,+ r,isfa,t,,,,, pr1,,
we fiddlcd around Franco and Italy and
G4,nauv drnnmino nm a crowd whom.
tbe fan Of I1Sg ton1d ms over in Ans,
ira rith = Iotcf b,no. NJ, cot ,,,.
one dav and ordo,.a a lot If tb. Frn.
tallan ar,nor---a 1ab lot with aptoontic
CLASH. and a lot of dnnlsv lovers ami
swivel. that H.. w. >. 'ai.fv rro4d ~
H.. l..nt ma ariIl,n, II, ,l,o.a' ola ,o...
baqn.I. All f.9I ,,i p,,d,.- hin, ,,,,.
rau Frrdcr,,.. p,rla,n.., -, tl,a l,,l,--
locked nm rnabty ,ealons for his mon.
only had ono do, chain 3,,,a,. tl,t
dldn clank nor olittrr no,. notbino
lis only adyanfage was if was eon,fort.
able We'll tn mako lone story OF
mooaziuo lpaatb tho winter of ilSo.
came ou-van rana,nbnr If eooree tina
cold ,eiutrr-hnt of coursa Won don't
WnIl if was fearfullv cold.-r,iuod all
December and took rho stove noliSh otY
them armors and rnsted 'em nm som.
And then ON fine sfh of Iannarv tbor.
wa. tho worst blizzard ON five % voa,,s,
record Of the University Of Vienna Thp
hinges Of them auton,atjcs were wet
and rnstv. and nv Johnnie when WA
got mn the morning of the 9th we had
to tbaw en-, ont Ia get 'em ON IT. Kent
getting colder and colder and at 10