. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . s over my equine friends,for I can go very slowly at the righttime and am very easily handled. Ah, small boy, you think to climbup behind as of yore, do you ? Onemore turn of the lever and where areyou, my son ? Ha ! ha ! I am quiteanother creature from those Arm-strong monsters by my side. Do youhear that gong ? Well, thats mybig brother coming. Look out! lookout! He wont stop for you. You rea goner if you get in his way. Ah,here he comes! See those great,noiseless wheels. See that gracefulbody and that beautiful b
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . s over my equine friends,for I can go very slowly at the righttime and am very easily handled. Ah, small boy, you think to climbup behind as of yore, do you ? Onemore turn of the lever and where areyou, my son ? Ha ! ha ! I am quiteanother creature from those Arm-strong monsters by my side. Do youhear that gong ? Well, thats mybig brother coming. Look out! lookout! He wont stop for you. You rea goner if you get in his way. Ah,here he comes! See those great,noiseless wheels. See that gracefulbody and that beautiful black stackbelching forth smoke and sparks ?Isnt he a beauty? He will getthere in time, never fear. Yes, he smy brother, and mighty proud ofhim I am, too. Frightful? Nothalf so frightful as the sight of thosethree poor beasts struggling with thatgreat ladder-truck behind. Going tostop here ? Well, not too quicklynow ; those sudden stops jar one all for to-day ? I am ratherglad, for one does get tired on thesepavements. Good-by, see you at theold stand to-morrow. //.. )S\J) CEDRIC LAIGHTOX. Cedric Laighton, one of the proprietors of the Isles of Shoals property, died atWest Medford, Mass., June 5, after a protracted illness, aged about 58 years. Hewas born in Portsmouth, and was a son of the late Thomas B. and Eliza (Rymes)Laighton. His father removed to the Isles of Shoals to conduct a small boardinghouse for summer boarders, communication being had with Portsmouth by meansof a sailing craft. Here Cedric grew up, remaining ail the time, summer and win-ter, on the islands, except for periodical trips to that city, until his marriage. Atthe death of his father, Cedric, with his brother, Oscar, took charge of the prop-erty, which was then a small affair, and soon afterwards began to enlarge andimprove it, continuing until now, when it consists of Appledore, Star, and Smut-tynose islands, on which are situated the Appledore, Oceanic, and Mid-Oceanhouses, as well as a score
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