Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-01-03
THE CYCLOPEEDY.


Havin lived next door to the Hobart
place fer goin on 80 years | Gale late that
know jest about 81 much about the case
81 anybody else now ON airth, cXccptin,
perhaps it's ole ledge Baker, n he's so
plaguy ole N so powerful feeble that he
duu't know nOthin.
1t seems that in the spring NV ISL
the year that Cy Watsun'S oldest boy wuz
drowned in West riVer-thCrC come along
a book agent sCllin VulYumoS II tracks fer
the diffusion NV knowledge, n haNin got
the recommend NV the minister II wv the
selectmcn he done AN all fired big business
in our part NV the county. His name wuz
Lcmucl Higgins. N he wuz en- likely u
talkcr % | ever hccrd, barrin Lawyer
Conhcy, II everybody allowed tnat when
Conbcy wuz round he talked fast that
the town pump'd have to be CREASED every
20 minutes
One NV the first NV our folks that this
LCmuel Higgins struck wuz Loandcr No.
bart. Lcamdcr had jest MARI d one NV the
Peaslcy girls II had moved into the ole
homestead, on the Plainville road, ole
Deacon Hobart havin give up tho place To
him, the other boys havin moved out west,
like lot NV darncd fools that they wuzi
Leandcr wuz feolin his oats jest about tins
time, n nuthin wuZ too good fer him.
Hattie" seq he, Il guess I'll have to
lay in IA few books fer rcadin in the winter
time, II I've "a notion to subscribe fer u
Cyclupccdy. Mr.. Higgins here says they re
inNalc9.ble in IA family, N that we Orter
have cm brin as how we'ro likely to have
the family bimcby."
''Lor sakes, Lcander, how you talk"
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