Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-04-08
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Chink. .a.Chink O. the Spring.

drink,
Where the waters ran with a chink-a-
chink
Der mossy flats To curl away
10 the bab ling brook always at play
The deep dark spring with the shady
nook
And the trout that nevcr'd seen a hook
The bIbblinS sand IN Its bottom white
That turned an sparklcd day and night;
How good 'twould be just once to knccl
At the edge OF the dear Of spring an feel
The grateful touch of It's waters white
That laugh an chink all day and night.
and down below where the cattle drank.
Where nag root grew 50 green an rank.
Where hylcrs sang In the summer nights.
Or cat birds carroi-d wild delights
I'd like to see old White stand
Her pasture chums on either hand.
Knee deep in the mud and waters cold
An toss her horns as she did of old
Till the frogs in the black ooZe down be
low
Came up to look at their ancient foe
And dove again mong the lily pads
At sight Of us rollickin roguish lads.
Where we went for cup to drink at
night.
S'poscfnow If I looked In the dark Oh
place
# would recognize my wrinkied face?
] spose that il tricks an Gibbs away
The same IL did when | ulster play
In the orchards shade on the rocky farm
\ wild little cuss who SAW no harm
In piunking stones at the specklcd trout
or tryin my best TO fish them out
With pin well bent an worms a-crawi
From the melon plot by the garden wlll.
| used to lie on the nattcned rock
An shade the spring with my homcspun
frock
TotaIk to the fish far down below
Till they came. ! think. my face To know
So well they'd laugh when | tried to
coax
Them up to the surface, They knew the
hoax,
An down they'd go to the sandy waste
That stretched on the bottom ccoi an
chaSte.
Or hide under mossy stones away
Till | ran to the orchards shade to play.
And then they'd dance in the babblinS
brink
Where the waters fell with their chink-a-
j. Otis Swift.
It is Congressman-elect Powers. to-
day
They are getting out the fishing
tackle on all sides.
Now everybody will proceed to make
up for the abstinence of Lent.
The Watcrville Mail boasts that tho
robins had been singing in that city
a week before one was heard in Au
gusta.
The Biddeford Journal remarks that
the outfield as we'll as the diamond
should be in good condition by April
25.
There are times when it pays to rub
ber. The Liberty Rcbckah Lodge of
Auburn. as the result of collecting and
selling 355 pounds of old rubbers has
netted $21.30 for it's treasury
Skowhegan has nothing unkind to
say about old Coburn hall. but it feels
that with a more modern playhouse it
would have more fun in the theatrical
line.
Not very good sap year. up to date.
The warm days and cold nights have
been conspicuous by their absence
L
Observer is back at his post again.
and he has some interesting. though
not exactly complimentary remarks to
make about the grip.
Camden is getting along in darkness.
these nights as the result Of its town
meeting. The voters did not want to
renew the contract with the electric
light people and SO lanterns are again
fashionable with those out after dark.
The result is not wholly satisfactory.
Few men occupy one store for a full
half century. but that is the record Of
T.. F. Hamilton of SacO. the veteran
dry goods man. who is about to retire
for well earned rest.
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