. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. occasion-ally one hears them now. We willgive one or two : One day Mr. Dodge was out hunt-ing near his home on the mountainwhen his dog started a deer andchased it around the other it would be too late to shootit when it came back as it was thengetting dark, Mr. Dodge, so thestory goes, bent his gun around atree and discharged it. The nextday he went out and found the deer, claiming the shot had gone aroundthe mountain and proved fatal. An-other time he was fishing at Amos-keag, which was then a part of
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. occasion-ally one hears them now. We willgive one or two : One day Mr. Dodge was out hunt-ing near his home on the mountainwhen his dog started a deer andchased it around the other it would be too late to shootit when it came back as it was thengetting dark, Mr. Dodge, so thestory goes, bent his gun around atree and discharged it. The nextday he went out and found the deer, claiming the shot had gone aroundthe mountain and proved fatal. An-other time he was fishing at Amos-keag, which was then a part of Goffs-town, when he espied seven wild -7 J Shirley Hill Schoolhous\ geese sitting on the limb of a treeprojecting out over the river, andbeing desirous of bagging them all,he hit upon a method. Getting hisgun, which he. usually carried, hefired the first shot, splitting the limb,and catching the geese by the toes,then firing again he cut the limbfrom the tree and waded out into theriver after it. When he returned hewas surprised to find that he had not < *?-?••.. , Parker D> only secured all the geese but caughtseventeen pounds of salmon trout inhis pockets, and we dont supposeit was much of a day for fishingeither, to hear him tell it. When the Salem witchcraft was 254 GOFFSTOWN. Paig? Brothers Block. abroad, so says au eminent authority,two women were arrested for be-witching two men in this town. Wedo not think anything strange of this,however. On the contrary we wondermore cases did not occur, if the girlsof Goffstown were as bewitching thenas they are now. Both offenders (?)were duly tried, but no just groundsfor complaint being found againstthem, they were dismissed. Another incident of historical valuemay be found in Rev. S. L- Ger-oulds sketch of the Congregationalchurch in the History of Hills-borough County, and reads asfollows : It ma}- surprise some of you toknow that slavery ever existed inthis place; but this must have beenthe case, as, Se
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