Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13
Maine Gossip
An Epieurean Version
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While upon the play I pondered-time
and money vainly squandered-
Habit-urged my feet had wandered down
to Sherry's tempting door.
Though but vaguely I remember. it was
in, think. December,
Yet 1t may have been Novemoer-as ! We
| said, I am not sure
When I entered without rapping) sat
me down and gently tapping
| On the table. woke the mapping pianK-
faced waiter name Somore-
Woke the sonber-visaged walter whom
the patrons named Somore-
Nameless here for evermore.
Idly at the menu squirting, scon%I had
the mental sprinting-
Had him moving, patient reader, as he'd
never moved before;
/ And ere long I heard the patter OF return
OF the es bottle aasi 4 gainst the platter and Of
Heard the ciatter OF the platter as he
battered Ger the floor
Only this and nothing more.
Then before me, hot ara steaming, aro-
matte, garnished, cleaning
With a creamy, amber gravy, freely
lavishly outpoured. ..,.,.r,s,.
I beheld a bird of splendor, featnerless,
defunct-but tender
Whose proportions did engender all the
greed within me stored
Whose magnificent proportions woke the
greed within me stored
And no longer was l bored.
Swiftly on the capon turning, stomach,
palate yearning, burning
With a gluttonous desire to be gorged
for evermore,
I betook myself to sinking bird and Bur
gundy. multiplying
Never thinking-neyer thinking mat my
Never guessing for moment would tor
tured be and sore.
Rolling on my chamber moor.
But this chicken-cock-or devil-victim Of
my midnight revel-.
Was a servant. dark and evil, Tempter
sent to Sherrys door;
And ! make this frank confession: tnat
the pangs of indigestion
Prompt my answer to the question, Bro
and bottle
F. C. Morton of Riverside Drive
called at the Journal Office on Friday
with a carrot that looked more like a
bamboo fish pole than the ordinary
yellow carrot. 1t was very straight,
about II inches in diameter near the
top and tapering to fine point at the
end of its 20 inches. Mr.. Morton said
he has IS rows of carrots and about
half of them are as long as the sample
brought to the Journal Office. The top
stretched out another IS inches so al
| together it was some carrot.
| A sunlower growing out Of the
crotch of a tree on High street.
Pennington is something Of a curiosi-
| ty.
Kennebec Engine No. 1 Of Bath
brought home three prizes from the
Brockton Fair muster.
An English sparrow with a we'll
defined top-knot Of pure white, also
a large white spot on its back. has
been noticed lately associating with
large flock Of sparrows and he pre-
sents a funny appearance.-Houlton
Times.
A white crow has been making its
headquarters on the Call road IN
Milford for some time and has been
the envy of many huntsmen. William
Labree, a millwright for the Milford
Bundle Woods Co., meandered out that
| way with his gun and returned with
Mr.. Whitewings. 1t is now in the
hands of Mr.. Legasee Of Old Town, the
taxidermist The wings of this crow
are pure white, the remainder Of the
feather being dark.
| The gang OF workmen digging the
| trench for the water system for lay
ing pipes to the Atlantic Coast Com
panys new yard struck fairly good
digging, states the Boothbay Register.
They were pushing right along
| through the clay Monday when they
made find. 1t was 20o-lb. pig.
He was only about two feet below the
surface and in the clay. A passerby,
whose attention was called to the find
the next day wanted to know of the
workmen If they supposed the pig had
rooted down there and remained. It
was learned, however. that a neighbor
had lost a 200-pound porker over two
years ago-not by roofing but by a
natural death-perhaps unnatural for
hog-and the owner had been the
undertaken.
The finding of the pig does not
account for the roofing heard the
past years at the ball ground nearby
nor is 1t fair to attribute to it all the
grunting being done at the shipyard.
The porker was found to be well
preserved although neither picked
nor embalmed. The workmen saw
that If they could get some hogs like
this one in the German trenches the
boys would be lifted out Of there be-
fore Christmas.
Sight Of tractor engine hauling oak
to be used by Elwell s. Crosby Of Bath
in building ships at his new Richmond
yard recalls to some Of the older resi-
dents that years ago all ships built in
Bath were constructed Of timber out in
this town and vicinity. writes the Wood.
| witch correspondent Of the Bath Inde-
pendent In those days 1t usually re-
quired q year to build ship All the
materials were prepared by hand with
the broadaxe. the whipsaw. the adze and
the pod augur. This style Of augur was
straight. grooved on one side through
which the chips came up. to CIGAR which
the augur had to be often withdrawn,