The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-22
a KNIGHT OF THE PASTE U
Col. Calliper's Recniiections of Darius
Grozzleby of Storkville Centre, VT.

Col. C~aIliper's RecoiIections of Darius
Grozzleby of storkville Centre, VT.
The city billposter." said Col. Calliper. lis a
man of delightful freedom of action. He posts
bills upon any object that he thinks will display
a bill to advantage. the only question In his
mind. aside from that which may be raised by
local ordinances, being whether the object will
about waiting TO be put under ground. he
pastes bills on thcm-to be read by men here
and by the worms below. A barrel anywhere
appeals TO him. and he adorns it with a single
sheet-ln red, perhaps. or it may be in blue.
Sidewalk or crossing flags. waiting to be put
down. he ornaments likewise: and he loves to
paste a roster on the face of a pile OF brick.
But this sense OF the availability OF things
poster is certain to be a man OF IDEAS and re-
OF The idea. hillposter in higher measure than
did my, old friend. Darius Grozz!eby. who for
"C3mparatiyely small as Storkville Centre
was n Grozz[eby utilized its, opportunities 10
and every conspicuous place in the town he
occupied with bills. But after all it was in his
cool adgptability TO circumstances his, I'M
unfailing certainty to seize upon it that marked
him for one highup in. the brotherhood, There
else of his faculties in this direction amounted
to genius: while the work itself. inthis instance
l am inclined to think. must be unique in the
We had had n cold rain that turned to snow.
The snow on the roof OF the Town Hall build
ing, which stood on one side of the green,
where 1t could he seen from all directions,
melting with the warmth from below. and run
ming down to the ~troughs nj the caves and
thence to the rain water conductor.at the corner
of the building, had found that pipe choked
with ice. The conductor being thus frozen up.
THIS snow water ran over and down the outside
oflt, freezing as IT. ran. making layer upon
layer OF Ice around the upper half of il to n
thickness greater than that OF n barrel but
thence in some way dripping clear OF the con-
ductor, and forming from that point to the
ground the most gigantic icicle that Storkvilie
Centre ever saw.
And what ri Grozzlohy did. Of course, was
to bill this icicle. 1t had begun to form in the
morning. and before people went to bed that
night II was practically complete. and the talk
of the town, and this in a place where they had
ice were familiar things. When the people got
around in the morning they saw this ice col
umn. the big lee cylinder that surrounded the
conductor, Tor the upper story and "A half OF its
length, and the. gigantic icicle that defended
from that. billed from top to bottom with post
ers announcing the lecture that was TO be de-
liyered BY Prof. so-and-So In the Town Hall
How he, got there or how he made the bills
body asked II would have lessened tho won
der OF IL to know. But through that day the
water; still running down. ran over the bills,
outside of them. and covered them with a coat
ing OF crystal lee, through which they could be-
read, ns under n glass.
AND that's all-R GrozZlehy billed an icicle:
but IL always so"med to me that In doing that
Ri had done as mach as many a man who has
achieved Gre0ter iame-he had risen to the full
OF his opportunities"