Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-01-11

ried out to the grounds ahead OF III
boys, so as 10 pick out some cappers
start the games. | hurried into th
grounds, and saw four or five Reub
standing together in front Of lemon
ade stand, so hauled them to one sid
and said 10 them. Here! There's 60
ing to be fellow out here pretty 500
selling buggy whips. He'll be in al
open carriage. As soon as be inishet
his talk each one Of you fellows go VI
and buy a whip for 50. As soon. as yor
do that my agent in the crowd will put
| So more in your pocket, and you car
keep that Well, / gave them the mon
ey, and hustled off to pick out place
for the wheel In a little while / saw
my man with the buggy whips drive in
and begin to draw a crowd. but | WASH t
paying much attention TO him until !
heard lot of bowling and laughing
over his way, and then one of the boys
came running up to me with his eyes
bulging out: Say. where did you get
them boosters?' he says. l told him
picked 'em out down by the gate. Well
he says, the crowd won stand for 'em.
They're all from the insane asylum
across the road l hurried over TO the
crowd, and sure enough, here were the
pluggers with their So bills and my boy
up in the carriage so mad he couldn't
see. Get 'em away!' he hollered at
me. They're all daffy.' Then / no.
ticed for the first time that all these fell
lows had straw hats and linen coats
just alike, and wore these carpet slip
pers. | had an awful time dragging
'em away, and they came mighty near
queerin' the graft for all day. Whenthe
boys from the crazy house began to
butt in and buy whips at So apiece the |
farmers knew something was wrong.
There must have been 200 of the |
boys from the insane asylum on the
grounds that day They stood around /
everywhere blocking off good money,
md, Of course, they were all dead ones,
lot having 10 cents apiece. The ladies
# the Methodist church were serving |
meals in the dining pavilion out at the
air grounds, and when | went over TO
ret my dinner / told the woman who
vas taking tickets that / was the new
haplain over at the asylum. She said
he was little nervous. having all these
razy people on the grounds. and then
told her that one of 'em had stolen a
aw and got under the grand stand and
Fas saving down the support when we
aught him. / told her that in 10 min
ties more the whole stand would have
allen in and killed hundreds of peo-
lie.
about an hour later happened to
E going past, and went over and told
er that one of the patients had just
led to set fire to the floral hall. Then =
little while after that l called in and "
id: L s'pose you heard what hap c
med over in the chicken Department. "a
le said she hadn't heard word about =
Why / says 'one Of the men from =
e asylum just chased a little girl and i
arly bit her thumb off Well, she
rs up in the air. Ii
"A little while before supper time ! IL
mt in and said to her: I'm going TO a
ing one Of the patients in here to sup b'
r. You'll see him come in with me. 10 10
IS a tall man with black mustache, :"
d he's all right as long as he don't ,r,
ink any coffee. He always asks for to
fee-that's his mania--but II he si7
ink cup of coffee he'd begin to rave in
less than five minutes. When he asks III
coffee don't pay any attention 10 VIC
n. Now, there's another thing This
n Is kleptomaniae, He'll steal any 10
ng he can lay his hands on, so you ~
Mt to watch him while he's here N,
In little while came in with one mi
my men, a fellow named Eddie. and :
: of the best in his line He was a sal
i'd for coffee-drank it all the time. slo
en- he sat down three Of the women lax
ne and stood across the table from
D, watchin' every move he made. q. IN
die thought they were stuck on him. -. =.
was swelled up there like toad in .
still
The first thing he called for was cof- haC
Nobody paid any attention TO him.
~ brought him milk He told the her
nan to take it back and bring him
lie coffee. She took the milk away. ga
no coffee would she bring, He a a..
ed everybody around the place for end
ee, and all the satisfaction he got AL
, to see them line up and watch him abo
hat he wouldn't steal anything. At two
he was so mad that he broke out. mig
brought his tist down on the table :
II everything iingled apd boIIoraa. die,
yant n c,,n ~ cofyoor, TLa.-a..113 iroi
Every woman let out a squeal and i .'s
lie a run for her life. A lot of yap eInl
cemen, with tin stars, came up on Y
run, and we had an awful time $50
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