The Republican journal., 1901-10-10

dale seems to run in wool and fur and
feathers. Every insect and bird and
beast that haunted his old boyhood re-
sorts is given place in his song:
''That hazel oopse the summers noon
Would fain have made sheltering boon,
But for the hornets ancient art,
That wOnderOus instinct did impart;
It made its nest, then in it curled,
First papermaker in the world.
Mill by the stream, and like to men,
Lest others learn its craft and ken
1t posted notice fair and clear,
mo visitor is wanted here"
1nsoOth, we read it, we could read,
OF warming took a proper heed,
And when it said, smy busy day"
We took the hint, and kept away"
.'The muskrat slowly splashed around
The dOgwOOd in the boggy ground,
In constant fear of trenchant snap
About his limbs from hidden trap,
Rush-denned he stunned the winters wrath,
Through hole in ice he took his bath"
s'The hungry crow called out, ''caw, caw,"
| Beseeching for general thaw.
But winter school day pranks upon
the ice are ushered into verse thus:
''Before the morning schoolbell rung.
With ShawlS and ScarfS FER shoulders flung,
!
| grove,
Strapped on their skates and greatly strove
In many freak upon the ice
With gallantries preserved so nice
Upon the part of bustling boys,
The girls were guarded in their joys
One had fall, of course, and
ellis heels went up, his head was downed,
The stars went circling round and round,
But the ice, it stayed just where it was,
1t always stays there till it thawS"
One broke through the ice and drench-
ed had to hasten home in the freezing
air just at school time.
"Twas near in summer, distant now,
| Thus drenched to trudge in frost and snow,
And face the storm 'twould gather there,
| When his sore plight should SO appear"
The crowning feature of the Canto
was a contest at skating, in which
James W. Skinner and Parkman Wood
man were the foremost contestants.
No contest of sailing craft or athletes
could afford an exhibition of Titanic
zeal more thrilling than was here de-
picted. just at the moment when
Warren seemed to be making the goal,
he met with an accident, and Parkman
won.
South Montville shows little external
change. The buildings are kept in ex-
cellent condition and the farms that
grace the beautiful slopes of South and
East Ridges are in goodly tilth. The
larger ones on South Ridge are owned
by c. F. Conner, Smith D. Cram, VIM.
Ripley, John Prescott, and Charles T.
and Geo. F. Randall. Those on the
westerly slope of East Ridge towards
True's Mills are owned by Parkman
Woodman, B. F. Knowles and A. V.
Martin. The upper mill, on the old
True's Mills privilege, now grist, shingle
and stave mill, are owned and operated
by Edwin and Simeon Cram, and
thriving woodworking shop, owned by
VIM. Prescott takes the place of Uncle
Thomas Lennan's once busy carding
mill. The lower mill on Uncle Galen
Carter's old privilege is circular saw
mill for long lumber-manufacturing,
owned by Geo. F. Randall. Instead of
the old union store, there are two
stores in the place, one kept by Mr..
Wentworth, the other by Mr.. Clarence
Cram. At Woodman's mills half a
mile below the sawmill long since dis
appeared, but stave and cider mill are
run by the power. Chas. S. Adams
owns the Davis Woodman farm there
which is enlarged by the addition of
the Jesse Hartman place. The most
noticeable change is in the residents,
the old generation that my boyhood
knew and respected are with few excep- ::
tions in the quiet little white village by ,
the winding river. The white spire !
shows out with artistic beauty through |
the Dale onto the far slopes Of Apple
ton and Lincolnville, teaching as of |
yore its sweet lesson of faith and duty,
and the younger generation love and
venerate the true and patriotic ways
of tine fathers, whose works do follow
them, having ceased from their labors.
God save the beauty and peace and
innocence of the Dale
O. HAIRBRAIN.
Boston, Sept. 2s 1901.
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