The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1900-02-09

narrow escape. last Tuesday morning.
AS Mr. Smalley was arising he glanced
from the window and saw light In the
chop, After awakinG the hired man
they hurried to the sh y and found tire
q nor had caught tie fram basket OF
ashes which had sst near the hoiier Tor
two dave. The fl ines y ere easily kim
guished with q few pail II wate- There
was q small hcl burned IN the q DOR and
the basket which contained the ache
was burned. This IL the extent OF loss.
LINES To A, VERSATILE MAN --''EAT SAUSAGE
TO SUCCESSFULLY WOO THE MUsE."-NEw
ApAGE.
A man there was whose breadth of mind
Was such IL could not be confined
In ordinary limits.
And concrete wisdom, to the core,
Was stored therein, ar d much. mucn more.
Finite and infinite.
He bought a patent muskrat trap
And taking the thing upon his lap,
Its mechanism pondere7.
Snow if twas made just t'other way,
Catching mus srats would be just play;
Now, why didn't they ""get onto" that 1ay?"
Thoughtfully he pondered.
The sweat of genius damped his brow;
"1'll write" Quoth he, ''to the firm right now
By special delivery letter"
He did, and soon the answer came back,
Ideas ali right you have the real knack.
lack,
And the quicker the better"
w.
re ,teiegraphed back che mails Were too slow
Then patie tly(?) he waited.
Sad, sad was the blow In the an wer he got:
"A man with your nerve ought to be half
Twas worse than the blow that most kill ed
father, Mein Gott,
Stratghtway his air castles dc hated
Mo1o ,,a,,,n,,o, +ro,,o,, t,is oo11or IN drain.
Then this man his ambition ne co AID NOT re-
OtllIabor he's fond)
He has morass back OF this neighbours yard
And ne deiYs go tnere' ana aug ana re@ilS
Till he tonne formed 10 where once was an emerald
sward,
A little ice pond
In rills clear and limpid the water ran back
Till, shortly. this neighbor had OF water no
MIX dac tbon IN toc+ sor,,,.nra measure.
FOR his cellar was as tuil as goat in a wink.
And how this man Oh Unlimited Mid he did
wbap D hia na,gbbor onoth to him the tboughts
H0I he did t6inK- N 'N'O ''-
Thoughts very like steam at high pressure.
This mans mind runs not onlv to traps and
to ice.
He's famed oonnolsseur OF skeleton1zed
S,z.. mloe' And sncb snctent +hinos
OF late he has written some original Verse
That tor beauty OF dtction might really be
WOE WorS1 b., Esn,e,s soro,, xr,o,,, soo nm Tho
1 diverse. O- - Wv VAN
His name' meath two wings.
He woos in a queer way the poetic muse,
And shows that in things common there's un
c Stttt1ooa use isa,,,,ro+,o,, v,o,,u1 .o
For this is the great secret@don!f Five II
away
But sausage he eats three or four times day
For week Oelore prgfnmng 70 Gar9 1I ms iay
-@'-S s'o' -1'''4S e00'
Mr. and Mrs James Marshall, who have
been spending number of weeks in Eng
| | md. sailed for home last Wednesday
February Z. Mrs Marshall ia daughter
of Mr. and Mrs George &. CoIev.
Prof DeMork of Bridqeport ia treating
the daughter of Charles Plumb of wa
ker's Farms.
CT. Smalley is soon to have a wooc
worker added TO his force to enable hin
to keen up with ais orders.
Business was lively with B, Curtis &
Son, last Tueeday morning. They IN
| loaded three cars of grain before noon.
| Frank G, RAYMOND of Brideepert haI
rented the ghop belonging to B. Curtis &
SON near the denot and eynects to omen ,
| hlacksnitb shon goon.
The nine tree in front of Mrs Carolin,
Davton's home was blown over bv tn
wind of Friday, January 26.
Miss FL. e. Waldron, who has been II
at the home of Rev r. P, Braman. il
some better.
| Mira MARY e, Beers has been quite se
riously i'll, but ia considerably improved