Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-27
Maine Gossip
A Little Bit O. Riley.

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lights CROWN dim,
You can open of it anywhereS an reat
a verse from him.
1t rests me when I'm weary an 1t cheer:
me when I'm sad.
An sometimes tn pathos in it, while Tn
cryin' makes me glad;
For | like it cause it's human an my
heart jeS' seems t say
That if it could speak. like Rleys, II
would talk jeS' thataWay!
Jcs' a little bit O. Riley when tn summer
cause it sort O. adds measure to tn
fragrance an perfume;
1t seems to lend new meanin' to tn chat
ter an tn song
OF tn birds that cry up yonder an tn
brooks that dance along;
An | like it cause it's honest an my
heart jeS' seems I say ;.
That if it could speak, like Riey's. ii
would talk jes' thataway!
Jcs' a little bit O. Riley when III shad-
,lers fall on mo
IAN I know I'll meet my Pilot where tn
stream becomes tn Seao
An | want to meet him honest, as a
man should meet n man.
An I want to he clean-hearted an as de-
cent as can,
So I want a verse o Riley an 1 want to
smile an say. .
.If nv heart could plead for pardon il
would talk jes' thataway.
New York Times.
There is lot of scraping on the
program before the ice can be harvest
ed
These are lively days and nights for
the students who are back home for
the holidays.
hope that one of Auburn's shoe in
dustries will move up to that village.
sYork county Republicans are per-
picked by the quantity of good mate
rial for the seat in the next executive
council.
Hotel Velvet. which never fails to
furnish an end Of the season seusa-
ton at Old Orchard. has changed
hands again.
A tramp hailing from Massachusetts
asked the Saco court to send him to
Jail for the cold season and was
promptly sent to Alfred for eight
months.
Bangor has no doubt the meanest
thieves in Maine. They stole 80 of the
so little boxes which the Salvation
Army had placed in public places as a
means of getting money for a Christ
mas dinner for the poor.
The coming year bids fair to be n
great one for railroad building in
Maine, what with the projected ex-
tension of the Bangor and ArooStook
AS miles from Schools lake north to
the Canadian line and the extension
of the Somerset from Moosehead to
the same boundary
Rev. G. w. Hinckley of Good Will
Farm returned home last Saturday
morning from Hamilton, Ontario,
where he was for some time. seriously
ILL.,. undergoing an operation because of
blood poisoning. He was greeted at
the station by all the boys at the farm
who expressed much joy at having
their friend and teacher back again in
time for Christmas.
Richmond Bee: He didn't have a
dollar. he didn't have a dime; his
clothes and shoes were looking just as
though they'd served their time. He
didn't try to kill himself to dodge mis-
fortunes whacks, instead he got some
ashes and he filled five dozen sacks
Next he begged a dollar. and in the
paper in the morn he advertised tin
polish that would put the sun to scorn
He kept on advertising. and just now
suffice to say, he's out in California at
his cottage on the bay
Nearly Is years ago a hunter shot y
Wild goose near Bath and dressing his
prize found in its crop number OF
peculiar black and white beans of a
variety he had never seen before II,