The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-12-23

: 5000 miles. If the world had bin round,
we'd hev either gone up or gone down hill.
felt In my bones Jest how it would be,
and now it's come. The idea O. that gal
comm here to talk SIGH stuff and nonsense
to folks as hev bin ketchin crabs and lob
sters fur tho last hundred Vars" :
Three or four others follered In the same
strain, and then tho preacher got up and
purity nigh took the roof off the buialn by
declarin that the gal was right. He brung
in glots to Prove 1t, and no p'inted out
sails on the ocean to back up the globe.
He run agin n mud bank, however. He
printed and talked and talked and p tinted,
but nobody would believe him. Birneby
ho go fred and sold ho didn't kcer whether
we believed or not, and wo passed reso-
lushun that tho gal shouldn't teach any
more SIGH stuff to our children If she want
cd to keep her job. Things went along oil
right fur a week or so, and some of tho
children had got go they could tell the pic
tur' O. a kangaroo from that o. church
steeple, when the skulema am broke loose
ag'in. She told tire children that tho airth
moved around the SUM- and before dark
Squan Creek was bilin over with excite
lhont' ~ Wtss W uhS tHtAu Wiltu we RUt VIC
news that P. T. Barnums five legged colt
was dead. We called another indigHashun
meetin that very night, and Tim Smith
got up and said
''Ar' this heresy or sedition or WHAT
Ever since Columbus diskivcred this North
Ameriky, with Moo Jersey and Squan
Creek inclooded, the sun hev bin movin
from SQuan Creek pint around to Seven
Feet inlet. Our grandfathers saw it, our
fathers saw it, and If we hain't seen it
then wo must be blind. She's moved ev-
cry day O. her life, and the airth haint
had nuthin to do with 1t, but along comes
n gal from Philadelphia that don't know
an oyster bed from jib topsail and says
tho sun has bin standin still all this time.
was purity nigh knocked out when she
declar'd ng in the flntness o the airth, but
this thing finishes me. I can't low my
son Jonas to tend that skulo no more
With SIGH teachin's as that be wouldn't
know huff to bait fshhook noxt var"
Tim Smith sot down amid tho awfullest
sort O. applause, and then Solomon Tonp-
kins got up and said;
ave ar told that this airth do move.
When has she movedp Every man of us
here tonight was born in Squan Greek,
and did any O. us ever know this town to
move up to New York or down to Barne-
gatP Has the wharf or the lighthouses
movedP Amt everythin standin jest
whar 1t was 90 Vars ago? As to the sun
standin still, If my ole woman should tell
me that should hev her locked up fur an
idiot. She's bin movin ever since the
wheels O. timo was set in moshun, and
she'll keep right on movin when Squan
Crock has bin forgotten. I've got u hoy
named Thomas what is attendin that
skule. He's good boy, an he'll find
clam under two feet O. mud. Ruther than
hev that boy split III sell out and move
away"
Solomon also got lots O. applause, and
then we sent fur the teichur to explain
matters. Sho showed up, und she was
sassy about 1t. She stuck to it
that tho sun stood still and tho airth
and she talked and talked to prove
it, and the preacher backed her up. We
knowed we couldn't BIZ lnistooken about