Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-11-24
Johns Letter.
STILL PERpLExRD BY THE PECULIARI-
TIES OF THE FULFILLING POTENTIAL.

1t puzzles my muddy brain to under
stand why Brown in the example he
gives of should as an expletive makes use
of this example: 81 should advise you
to proceed" But perhaps l have the
wrong idea of the word expletive, and
may, can or must, might, could, would
other things wrongly learned. But my
head has been 80 long out of school that
l prefer to let it go at that rather than
bother my brains about it.
wonder If the fear that seized upon
that valiant swain that his other girl
might be peeking through the fence
when he went in, alters the complexion
and the meaning of the little auxiliary
should. 1 don't say; but I do say that
if he was, or is, any part OF a man he
will not and would not, and beyond all
controversy he should not, have two
girls on the string at one and the same
time. But if it were so he might be just
reckless enough to say "Let 'er peek and
be darned."
Well, like your comments and am
glad that didn't happen to be away of.
l needs must be bit rusty in my gram
mar after all the years that have come
and gone since the last time that went
down to the front seat with the first
class in parsing.
Charles league passed away suddenly
Monday evening. He had been feeling
poorly for few days, complaining of a
difficulty in breathing. He had long had
heart trouble. He leaves wife and
one daughter. Funeral Thursday at 10
A. NJ. Many were in attendance. He
was a good citizen and was of social
turn. In passing to and fro from the
village he would often call and chat with
us. We liked him and shall miss him.
l was paving over some scraps the
other day and brought to light some
jingles of ours written in war time just
thirty.nine years ago this November.
You can have them to paste over that
crack in your hen.house. JOHN.
BROAD HINTS OF WINTER.
"Send up your clamor to the stars and lit your
Wheel out your Siewless batteries, the summer
leaves must die.
Arrar re your forces into form beside the mystic
sea.
And hold yourselves in readiness to answer
unto me! A.,
Go forth, frost. footed pioneers! and open up the
way
Through all the cool. Wide, windy wood where
Cast broad the seeds Of dull decline on all the
warm hours gave,
And hint unto the habitants of winter and the
Unlock might the feeble clasp of every nervous
And stingthe tardy fruit to death, and bring the
flowers to grief
Then from out the hostile north will lead my
And whip the quaking forests nude, and DESC
late the land"
Il must have been King Winters voice that
vexed my sluggish ear,
As home walked In pensive mood by Lunas
Or did dream The sound is past, and all the
air is still;
No echo and no ghost Of one comes stealing down
the hill.
And on and on the river runs as bright as molten
hasten, too, and reach the cline" and leap the
,'blood and death! my hand just touched a cold,
dead face and pale
FOO fast, my lad! you fancied h-rhsts frost
nd now / know did not dream-unwelcome
words but true |
know it by the altered hand and by the frozen |
The edict has gone forward now-reviving olden |
pain
The shadows on my heart come back-the flow |
ers must fade again.
Yet since the roses fell last year, since earth re-
newed her bloom,
Friends dearer, sweeter far than they, have |
found, alas! tomb.
think Of one, q gracious boy. so manly, brave |
and fair,
The odor Of the piney woods yet fragrant in his
hair,
The brown tan on his rounded cheek, the vigor |
In his arm,
His manhood welded unto truth, soul high, and
kind and calm,
Who took his young life in his hands, to battle
fastened down,
And fought and fell as others fall, ana wears
the victor's crown.
Then how can repine and sigh, and sorrow for
the flowers,
When sweeter blooms and brightest stars are
wrecked In stormy hours?
in. IRISH.
Rumford Falls, Nov, 1854.