The Newtown bee., 1897-01-22
FOSTER, BESSIE X CO.,, 3l7 MAIN ST. BRIDGEPORT

course to his fl ,ck, and see that some of his orchard needed attention and tree trimming in the springtime; and he then and there resolved to leave no duty con- spicuously neglected, so Domine Brooks, one weekday mo ming, (the accounts at this point are conflicting, or
 AS 1.-THE OLD ROMANS WOULD SAY,
 are in nubibus) as to whether this i'm. portant incident occurred on Wednes day, or took place on Thursday morn. ing-you will please forgive shis painful, but irremedial uncertainty-for the writ CT of this biographical sketch, 80 delights in exactitude of expression, and precision of statement, that he Is nothing if not accurate-about the true name of that particularly momentous week day-but on reflection, he ventures to suggest that with earnest study and prolonged medita- tion, it will be perceived that the incident contemplated, might have occurred on either one, or perhaps on both ot said days, without materially affecting the actual result, either to him, or to us, how ever extendedly the consequences might reach.
 So our devoted hero, with his ladder l and his handsaw, mounted limb of his ! apple tree, with intent to amputation {; and seating himself complacently as- tride of the offending branch, piled his in- strument of excision with great vigor and constancy, saving between himself and the trunk of the tree, regardless mean- while of the inexorableness of the uni- versaI law of gravity. as expounded by Sir Isaac Newton, but alive to the man. dates of holy Moses decalogue, and not forgetting Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress !; while he was singing snatches Of Milton's Paradise Lost, when suddenly, and with out warning,
 DOWN FELL THE PARsON on the excised limb, both striking the ground, Is feet below, st about the same instant of time-the limb with broken twigs and branches, and the poor par son with hatless head and broken arm, with soiled and tattered raiment, shrieking with both fright and pain, and crying out lustily for help, as his rever- enee lay sprawling on the muddy ground.
 The unhappy experience of our good pastor clinging to that discovered limb, so dissimilar in some respects to the fall of our first parents in the Garden after partaking of the forbidden fruit (vide III oh. Genesis, first to last verses in- clusive), more violent and painful per- haps to our unlucky Puritan, but not so serious in it's effects and consequences to him later on, as with Father Adam, as well as with his wife, and also with al- most every member of their numerous family, in whatever habitable part of our planet they dwell, down to this present hour.
 The repeated and earnest struggles be- fore the Legislat ure- the efforts to effect a concord between the two counties, and to produce harmony in adjusting the sev- eral concessions of the three towns be- fore mentioned. and the forgiveness, or withdrawal, of the opposition
 AGAINST THE PARTY WHO HAD
 so sturdily and bravely maintained the established order of things in both church and state, or rather In matters both sacred and secular, by an unexpect- ed stroke of fortune poor parson Brooks fall into the mud, under that apple tree and his injuries sustained 90 manfullY. and so unmurmurlngly, like the Phoenix from his ashes in old Mythology, he rose in the consideration and eateem of his fellow townsmen, until they agreed to call the newly constituted corporation after his own name, and hence we have our Brookfeld.
 So much TOT tho naae md IT. Iceends '. each theory has tho merit of aeme plaus-