. Northward-ho! Covering Maine's inland resorts, Moosehead Lake, the Rangeleys, Belgrade lakes and Poland Spring. atthe big reunion at Gettysburg?II No, I didnt go daown. li Idben in the battil Fd a gone. Twoor three fellers from Goveton went,and some from Milan and somefrom other taowns. I had the gudfortun to scr\ e under Gineral NORTHWARD-HO ! PaGE 22 Banks in the Mississippi we come up the Shenandoahand whipped up the hull valleyaraound Harpers Ferry. Say, thatsa funny taown, haint it? Haousesall runnin up the side of the hilland the graveyad on the top. Wecamped all winter the
. Northward-ho! Covering Maine's inland resorts, Moosehead Lake, the Rangeleys, Belgrade lakes and Poland Spring. atthe big reunion at Gettysburg?II No, I didnt go daown. li Idben in the battil Fd a gone. Twoor three fellers from Goveton went,and some from Milan and somefrom other taowns. I had the gudfortun to scr\ e under Gineral NORTHWARD-HO ! PaGE 22 Banks in the Mississippi we come up the Shenandoahand whipped up the hull valleyaraound Harpers Ferry. Say, thatsa funny taown, haint it? Haousesall runnin up the side of the hilland the graveyad on the top. Wecamped all winter the other side theriver at Poolesville. It was cold asthe dev-vil that winter. We tookthe gravestuns and made chimneysaouten em. Tlie officers were mad- ing, and meetin want over tillnine. We see a blaze up aour wayand the folks all struck up thewrong side o the river, so only twoor three ever got there. ^^ My wife was lame at the timeand my boy was sick, so theycouldnt do nothin. We done whatwe could. W^e saved the sewinmachine and the palor organ, andsome o them things the womencare for; but the chamber sets,. dern hatters and made us put emback in ther spring. ^^ Gen-tlemen and ladies, speakin oftaowns, when I come over herefrom Beth-el, Maine, they wantbut ten haouses in the hull taown-ship, and naow theys ten used to live to Milan Corners,ten miles away, but our haouseburnt up. It so happened that mywife and son had jest come froma visit to Beth-el, Maine. We wasall to meetin, it bein Sunday even- 23 Page—Northward-ho! they cost $25 apiece, they wasall burnt. The good folks o thetaown took up a collection and gotus $200, and we sold the fam for$700 more; that made $900. Thenwe come over here and spent thewinter at Center Station, where mywifes cousin keeps a jewelry it so happened that the peopleownin this fam died, and that wewanted to buy. Likeliest spot inthe hull valley, haint it? ^S]\ Great Godfrey, be you done? AUTUMN THOU ART SO FAIR Nature Pai
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