. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. -. For fear that he might seek revenge by returning to his old wayswe will, for the time being, know him as Ben, just Ben. Taken as a whole, Bens life was one in which the sunshine pre-dominated, he sought to make it so. If troulile came, as it sometimesdid, he conquered it by means fair or unfair, and laughed at itsflight. While Ben was not generally superstitious, he believed that fateruled certain things. For instance, one bright June morning he w
. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. -. For fear that he might seek revenge by returning to his old wayswe will, for the time being, know him as Ben, just Ben. Taken as a whole, Bens life was one in which the sunshine pre-dominated, he sought to make it so. If troulile came, as it sometimesdid, he conquered it by means fair or unfair, and laughed at itsflight. While Ben was not generally superstitious, he believed that fateruled certain things. For instance, one bright June morning he wascalled three times before making his appearance at the breakfasttable, then in reaching for the syrup he upset his cofifee. For thiscareless act he was reproached by his mother, who enumerated hisfaults with remarkable accuracy. In passing through the kitchen heaccidentally stepped on the cats tail. To show his mother that thiswas done unintentionally he lifted the frightened cat in his arms andsmoothed her hair the right way (something unusual). To his WOODBURY, CONNECTICUT 97. 98 TlIK TOWN AXl) mother this show of sympathy was onl} further evidence of his i^ she proceeded to instruct Ben in the proper treatment of dumbanimals. Hoping- to find a more congenial state of affairs Benleaves the house. In passing- the wood pile his eager eyes fell on hisfathers axe; of course he picked it up. As he was about to lay itdown the choping- block, aided by a vivid imagination, suddenly tookthe form of a hostile Indian. With a nerve-grating whoop Henflourished the axe above his head and brought it down with trip-hammer force, not on the block as he had intended, but deep in theground. Gee ! said Ben, as his vision of the Indian was followedbv one of his father in a less friendly mood. Ben extracted the axe,now much the worse for having come in contact with a stone, placedit on the block and in utter dismay returned to the house. The discovery of the axe in its present
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