Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-12-07
Maine Gossip
Ough

Shall be pronounced "Plow."
i Eats easy when you know" + say,
Mon Anglais I'll get through"
Ny teacher say Eat in Eat case
O-u-g-h is 90"
, And zen 1 laugh and say to him,
ices Anglais make me Cough"
He say, Not coo, but in Eat word
O-u-g-h is off
o sacre bleu. Such varied sound
OF words make me hiccough.
He say. again, my friend ees wrong:
O-u-g-h is up
! In hiccough." Zen I cry. mo more,
You make my throat feel rough"
Non, non," he cry, you are not right,
O-u-g-h is 'uff.'"
say. II try to spil1 your words
I can't pronounce them, though"
I'm time you'll learn, but now you're
wrong;
O-ug-h is 'oWc'n'
TN try no more. shall go mad,
IN drown me in re lough."
But ere you drown yourself" said he
"O-ug-h is 'ock.'"
He taught no more. held him fast
And killed him wiz rough.
From Our Accused Spelling"
"
Those people who have been fore
telling mild or moderate winter
will find comfort in the following
from the Bath Times:
There is considerable discussion
among local gunners as to whether it
is to be a severe winter. The pre-
ponderating opinion is that the win
ter will not be unusually severe and
the gunners explain that to date very
few white rabbits have been killed,
most of them retaining their sum-
mer furs and some of them just be-
ginning to turn. They also cite the fox
and the coon as other animals from
which they deduct their opinion.
John F. Conley, Oak street. who has
shot four coons and four foxes this
season says that the fur on all the ami
mails was thin and consequently he
does not believe there will be a rig
orous winter
The list of fatal and other acct
dents during the Maine hunting sea-
son. published the morning after the
close of the season, should have two
more added-because: Some I'M
known gunner or gunners last week
fired at and killed two Jersey cows,
registered and valuable, owned by
Edwin Rose of Greene. Mr.. Rose
charitably says that the hunter prob
ably mistook them for deer, but the
tracks that led to the spot went away
from instead of to his home, to in
form him of tho oooi6apt Or ~, ;c+,1,o
J. P. Morse of Winnegance recent
ly had peculiar experience with
bees. He found a bee tree in the
woods, cut it down and got several
buckets of honey. A few days later
he was eating some of the honey
when he felt a prickling sensation in
his mouth and upon investigation
found a bees singer in his cheek.
He drew it out and the next day his
face was swollen badly.
Sheriff Orman B. Fernandez of
Penobscot county is asking subscrip-
tons to a fund to be offered as a re-
ward for the finding OF the body of
Albert A. Cook, formerly of Portland,
who left a camp in the vicinity of
Shin pond on Nov. 5, and who is
supposed to have. persisted in the
wilderness.
John Edgar Pratt of Windham has
lived in the United States for 40 years
but. he became a citizen only on
Monday last, Judge Clarence Hale
signing his citizenship papers on
that date in the United States district
court in Portland. Mr.. Pratt was
born in Londonderry, n. S., and came
to Wcstbrook in 1881. He lived in
North Dakota for eight years, COM
ing back to Maine and living in
Windham for the past 81 years. He
is a farmer and owns farm of 100
acres.
The Augusta District meeting of