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1817.
CLOUGH, AMos, son of Nathaniel, b. May 12, 1797; m. Orra Jew- ett. She was b. Jan. 5, 1799, at Rowley, Mass. Ch., Aaron J., b. March 31, 1821; Columbus, May 19, 1825; George M., Jan. 13, 1827; Orra A., July 17, 1830; Amos F., Feb. 24, 1833. Amos Clough died Jan. 7, 1833.
Dow, JAMES, m. Ruth Williams. Ch., Susanna, b. June 21, 1796; Sally, Dec. 24, 1798; Ruth, Aug. 24, 1800. Ruth Williams Dow died Aug. 28, 1800. James Dow m. Hannah Merrill. Ch., Betsey, b. Dec. 5, 1801; Stevens M., Nov. 29, 1804; Ezekiel, Apr. 9, 1807; Jonathan Merrill, Feb. 2, 1809; Lorenzo, Sept. 12, 1811.
FRENCH, JOSEPH, m. Polly or Molly Batchelder. Ch., David C., b. April 21, 1791; Hannah, Mar. 1, 1793; Joseph, Nov. 16, 1794; Polly, Apr. 9, 1797; Mehitable, June 30, 1799; Daniel, Nov. 7, 1801; Reuben B., May 12, 1804; John, Nov. 24, 1806; Benj. M., July 6, 1809; Sally A., Aug. 5, 1811.
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JEWELL, SAMUEL, m. Sally Foot, Nov. 25, 1802. Ch., Betsey F., Nov. 7, 1802; David, Dec. 13, 1804; Lovina, July 30, 1807; Fanny D., Mar. 15, 1809; David M., June 4, 1811; Dolly F., Apr. 27, 1814; Samuel, Mar. 15, 1816; Levi F., July 4, 1818; Jacob, -; Alonzo,
LIBBEY, GEORGE, m. Sally Abbott. Ch., Hazen, b. June 10, 1815; Anna, Nov. 3, 1816 ; John, Feb. 9, 1819; Mary H., June 21, 1821; John, Nov. 12, 1823; Walter, July 29, 1826; Mary, Oct. 26, 1831.
LIBBEY, LUKE, m. Anna Ch., George, b. Aug. 22, 1792; Nathaniel P., Mar. 2, 1795; John W., June 19, 1797; Stephen W., Oct. 20, 1799; Ezra Bartlett, Aug. 24, 1801; Anna Patch, Feb. 26, 1804; Jonathan M., Mar. 8, 1806; Obadiah Clement, Dec. 15, 1807.
LITTLE, GEORGE, came from Unicorn St., London, Eng., to New- bury, Mass., in 1640, m. Alice Poor. Ch., Sarah, b. May 8, 1652, d. Nov. 19, 1652; Joseph, Sept. 22, 1653; John, July 28, 1655, d. July 20, 1672; Moses, Mar. 11, 1657; Sarah, Nov. 24, 1661. His wife, Alice, d. Dec. 1, 1680. Married Eleanor Bar- nard, of Amesbury, July 19, 1681. He d. about Nov. 27, 1694, as the Amesbury records say : " Widow Eleanor Little d. Nov. 27, 1694." He lived a few rods from the house now occupied by Silas Little. He was remarkable for strength of mind as well as strength of body, but was not an educated man. The farms which he selected in Newbury contain some of the best land in that town, and are still owned and occupied by his de- scendants, at Oldtown and Turkey hill, where the houses which he built are in part standing. The farms have been owned and occupied by the Little family for 230 years.
MERRILL, ISAAC, was b. Aug. 4, 1778, m. Auna Blodgett, Feb. 13, 1806. Ch., Benjamin Franklin, b. Dec. 13, 1806; Job Eaton, Nov. 12, 1808; Arvin, Dec. 13, 1810; Mahala, Jan. 25, 1813, d. Nov. 12, 1815, of spotted fever; Esther, Apr. 4, 1817.
MERRILL, JOSEPH, son of Stevens, m. Sarah, daughter of Joshua Copp. Ch., Jonathan, b. Nov. 24, 1786; Joseph, Oct. 29, 1788; Stevens, Apr. 24, 1790; Joshua, Jan. 25, 1792; Lemuel, Nov. 8, 1793; Caleb, June 7, 1795; William, Feb. 28, 1797; Mary, Dec. 4, 1798; Ezra, Sept. 6, 1800; Sally, Dec. 9, 1802; Anson, Dec. 4, 1804; Hannah, July 25, 1806; Susanna, July 30, 1808.
MERRILL, NATHANIEL, m. Betsey Favour. He was b. in Boscawen, Apr. 10, 1769; she in New Chester, Feb. 10, 1773. Ch., Da- vid B., b. Dec. 11, 1791; Nathaniel, Jr., Nov. 6, 1793; Sabina, May 27, 1796; Polly, Aug. 7, 1798; Judith, May 18, 1800; Moses, June 26, 1802.
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MERRILL, STEVENS, m. Hannah Clifford, Dec. 31, 1802. Ch., Isaac Merrill, b. Nov. 17, 1803; Stevens, Jr., Mar. 4, 1806; Nathaniel, Apr. 28, 1808; Ruth, Mar. 4, 1811; Susannah, Mar. 28, 1813; Mary, Oct. 26, 1815 ; 2d, m. widow Colby. Ch., Michael P., b. Dec. 26, 1818.
PILLSBURY, RICHARD, m. Miriam - -. He was b. Feb. 5, 1763; she Feb. 25, 1768. Ch., Tristram, b. Mar. 19, 1787; John, Nov. 11, 1788; Thomas, Mar. 23, 1791; Daniel, Feb. 28, 1793; Polly, Mar. 5, 1795; Miriam, May 7, 1797; Polly, May 12, 1799.
RICHARDSON, STEPHEN, m. Susanna Ch., Stephen, b. Nov. 29, 1779; Anna, Nov. 21, 1784; Phebe, Apr. 24, 1787; Sarah, Apr. 7, 1789; Dorcas, Feb. 25, 1791; Nathaniel, May 30, 1793; Susanna, May 17, 1797; Joanna, Feb. 3, 1705.
MISCELLANEOUS. JOSEPH PATCH.
WALDEN, VT., Dec. 25, 1869.
MY DEAR SISTER HANNAH :-
You ask for information about father and mother Patch. About that I am not so clear. Father Patch died in 1822, I think in August; any way it was in the time of making hay. It was before I united with the family. I have never been able to ascertain his age. However, I think he must have been as old as seventy- four or five. He came to his death passing from the once Meader farm to where he then resided, with his son Daniel, in the neigh- borhood of Meader pond. All who remember the circumstances know how he was overtaken and carried home dead. Mother Patch was born Dec. 28, 1756. She died March 4, 1835, in her 79th year, on the Summit, where Chase Whitcher, Jr., once kept a house of entertainment. They were both buried in the village graveyard on Pine hill road, near the height of the ground. David, their son, died first, in August, and was buried at the left hand as you stand at the head of the graves looking towards the road; then Thomas at the right of him; his grave was marked with the common stones for the times; then Anna, then William, then mother Patch and father Patch on the right of all. If I were there I think I should not be puzzled to go right to the spot; but it is not at all probable I shall ever stand on Warren soil any more.
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Since the death of my son my health has been very poor. I hope you are now better. You asked whether Mr. Hunt's family had moved away; they have moved to his father's.
Now fare you well, my sister adieu; If I no more your face can view, O may we hasten to the shore, Where we shall meet to part no more.
Yours affectionately,
MRS. BETSEY PATCH.
To MISS HANNAH B. KNIGHT.
PAGE 302 .- WRESTLERS.
Warren has always been celebrated for her smart wrestlers. They would practice the art at trainings, musters, town meetings, raisings, huskings, piling bees, at all public gatherings, and with the Vermont teamsters that for fifty and more years passed down through Warren to the seaboard. Among those best remembered after Joseph Patch, are Samuel Knight, True Stevens, Ezra B. Libbey, Joseph Merrill, and Samuel L. Merrill, (one of the best,) sons of 'Squire Abel, Joshua Merrill and Anson Merrill, sons of Joseph Merrill, inn keeper; Joseph Pillsbury, Joseph Patch, Jr., Reuben B. French, Beniah Wyatt, Hobart Wyatt, Walter Wyatt, Col. Benj. Clement, Alonzo Gale, Hazen Libbey, Ezra Libbey, Robert E. Merrill, (now in California,) Moses Page, Darius Swain, Reuben Gale, Freeman Gale, Hiram Gale, and E. Walton Libbey. The latter was a member of the 12th N. H. Regt., in the war of 1861, and was the champion wrestler of the whole brigade to which his regiment belonged. He often won as much as $25 " wrestling in the ring."
TOWN MEETINGS.
From 1779 to 1799, the annual town meetings were held on the first Wednesday of March, each year. Then by act of the Legislature, passed Dec. 20, 1799, the annual meeting was held on the third Thursday of March. In 1804 the annual meeting was held on the second Tuesday of March, which custom still continues.
HEALTH.
No person born and living in Warren, has died of consump- tion for the last twenty-five years. The children are free from it.
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But few cases were ever known in town, and those were persons who inherited it and then came to Warren and died, or the chil- dren of such persons. The elevation of the land and the purity of the air exempts our citizens from this dread disease.
SUICIDE.
No one has ever yet committed suicide in Warren, "The people are not such fools." Pure air, pure water, and lofty moun- tainous scenery keep them from having the blues. Dwellers in the region of Wentworth and the land of " Pearmount," some- times do the foolish thing.
LOST.
MARY ANN GERALD, daughter of Addison W. and Mary (Merrill) Gerald, was lost in 1852. They lived in the East-parte. The little girl was gone for two days. It rained pouring one night. The whole town hunted for her, and they found her drenching wet in the woods near where Seth Jewett Brown once resided.
DANIEL WELCH, who was crazy by spells, started about 1825 to go from Mr. Daniel Ramsey's by Silver rill, to Joseph French's east of Knight hill, where Stephen Noyes once lived, He never reached the place and was never seen again. The old story runs that straying away through the woods far up the side of Moosehil- lock, he perished in the great gorge, south of the lower mountain peak, and that his spirit still crazed wanders there yet. Old hun- ters who took their last journeys in the forest about this time used to tell how no one ever stopped in that gorge at night without. experiencing a haunted and weird like feeling, and some said they had heard the lost man just at nightfall calling for help from the shadowy gorge, and had seen his white ghost gliding noiselessly through the stunted spruces and dark firs .*
* Welch gave the town much trouble as will be seen by the following from the town records :-
1821 .- Due Nathaniel Clough $3.94 for advertising Daniel Welch.
Paid Joseph Kimball for going after him $7.32.
PAGE 425 .- STINT.
Gov. Samuel Flanders once took his stint of Capt. David S. Craige, who lived by Blue Ridge. It was to dig so many potatoes,
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and he had three days to do it in. The first day he looked at it, said he knew he could do it in two days, and so he put on his boots with red morocco tops and silk tassels and went a visiting. The next morning he looked at the stint again, said he had no doubt but that he could do it in one day, and so went visiting once more. The third morning he looked at it, said he couldn't do it without killing himself; that he wouldn't try; that he might as well die for an old sheep as a lamb, and he went visiting again. That night he set his boots on a red silk handkerchief so they wouldn't get soiled. Such was the Governor's style through life, and he was always poorer than Job's turkey.
LIBRARY.
A Circulating Library incorporated by the Legislature was established in Warren about 1808. The books were kept at the house of Mr. Nathaniel Clough. By vote they were distributed among the library members a few years ago.
The ladies of Warren established another library in 1851. It contains 240 volumes of an interesting and useful character, which are much read.
SALMON.
This fish ceased to come to Warren after the dam at Went- worth was built. In 1866, Joseph Clement hatched a large quan- tity of salmon eggs, brought from Miramachi river, in New Bruns- wick, in Patch brook. The young fish did well and went away to the ocean. But as the fish-way was " constructed with a great deal of pig-headedness " over the Lawrence dam, the fish never came back to Warren again.
DEATHS BY CASUALTY.
John Mills killed by a falling tree, 1779.
Amos Eaton, killed 66 1780. Capt. John Mills, Jr., 1784. Richard Pillsbury, killed at a raising, 1800.
Reuben Batchelder, "
66 1802.
Joshua Copp, Jr.'s child drowned in a wash-tub, 1808.
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Caleb Merrill, deaf and dumb, killed by a falling tree, June 8, 1800.
Joseph Patch, first settler, killed by a fall, 1822.
William Kelley, Jr.'s child drowned in Kelley pond, 1833.
Paul Meader, killed by a log rolling over him, 1835.
Ward C. Batchelder, killed by a falling tree, 1836.
Mr. Merrill, killed by a pitchfork falling on him, 1840.
Miranda Whitcher, burned to death, 1845.
Abigail Weed, killed by falling on pitchfork, 1846.
Calvin Cummings, killed at a raising, 1848.
Mrs. Vowell Leathers, burned to death, 1849.
David Antrine, drowned in Meader pond, 1849.
Calvin May's adopted son, accidentally killed by manure-fork, 1850.
An Irishman killed at work on railroad, by falling tree, 1852.
Mr. Anderson burned to death at a coal pit over to Charles- ton, 1852.
Bartholemew Welton's child drowned in Lower Village pond in 1860.
Vanness Wyatt, shot by J. M. Williams, 1860.
Cornelius Flynn's child drowned in canal east of common in 1861.
Daniel S. Hoit, killed by the cars in 1862.
No person was ever yet killed in Warren by lightning.
UNITED STATES, STATE, AND COUNTY OFFICERS WHO HAVE LIVED IN WARREN.
Dr. Thomas Whipple, Representative to Congress. Robert Burns, 66
William Tarleton, Councillor.
Dr. Ezra Bartlett, 66
Abel Merrill, State Senator.
Dr. Ezra Bartlett, State Senator.
Benjamin Merrill, County Treasurer. David Smith, 66 66
Samuel L. Merrill, 66
E. R. Weeks, Jr., 66
Abel Merrill, County Judge.
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Dr. Ezra Bartlett, County Judge.
Isaac Merrill, County Commissioner. William Tarleton, High Sheriff. Joseph Patch, Jr., Deputy Sheriff. Stevens Merrill,* 66
Benjamin Merrill,
66
* Stevens Merrill was the son of Joseph Merrill, innkeeper, of Warren. His son, Hon. George A. Merrill, of Rutland, Vt., was for many years Supt. of the Pas- sumpsic Railroad, is at present Supt. of the Vermont Valley Railroad, and has been a member of the Vermont State Senate.
PAGE 441 .- TRADERS IN WARREN.
Samuel Fellows, store on old Coos road in 1789.
Charles Bowles, 66 66 1795.
George W. Copp, 66 66 66 1800. Abel Merrill, 66 1804.
Capt. Benjamin Merrill, store at fork of Coventry road and turnpike in 1805. Lemuel Keezer, 66 66
1814.
Michael Preston, 66
1816.
Amos Burton, store at end of turnpike.
Samuel L. Merrill, store at end of turnpike and on Blue ridge.
William Merrill,
66
Anson Merrill, 66
66
William Wells. 66 66 66
John T. Sanborn, 60
66
Asa Thurston, store at end of turnpike, and on road to grist mill. D. Quincy Cole, 66 66
Francis A. Cushman, store at end of turnpike, and by Noyes bridge.
George W. Prescott, store at end of turnpike, and near depot. William A. Merrill,
Stevens Merrill & Tristram Cross, store in valley of Runaway pond. F. A. & M. E. Cushman, store by Noyes bridge, 1846.
James & Joseph Clement, store on road to grist mill, 1848.
E. C. Durant,
C. C. & H. H. Durant,
66 66 J. & C. C. Durant,
66
Walter Pike & William Swain, " 66
66 in 1855.
Daniel Q. Clement & Omar Little, 66 66 1856.
Russell K. Clement, store on
66 66
1857.
James M. Williams, store near depot in 1847. E. F. & C. F. Withington, " 1862.
William C. Webster, 6
66 1863.
Charles Thurston, 66 66 1864.
William S. Doggett, 66 1869.
66
George W. Jackson, 1854.
Calvin Getchel, store opposite depot, in 1860.
M. P. Merrill & Levi C. Whitcher, store near railroad crossing in 1853. 66 66
Henry W. Weeks,
J. M. Twombly,
66
66
66
66
66
66 66
66
66 in 1868.
E. B. Eaton,
66 66 1868.
John M. Whiton & H. W. Weeks, store of Capt. Ben. Merrill in 1868. 66
Enoch R. Weeks & L. C. Whitcher,
1869.
Ezra Libbey, store on Summit in 1853.
Jonathan Stickney, 66
1853.
Warren H. Smith, W. R. Parks, store on Summit in depot in 1870.
. Joseph H. Noyes, store by East-parte road in 1870. A. L. Noyes, store, jewelry. Joseph Chamberlain, store at East-parte in 1860. Russel Merrill, store near Town House in 1847. True M. Stevens, store by Moosilauke House.
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Moses W. Pillsbury, store opposite Moosilauke House in 1855.
H. H. Sheldon,
Ira Merrill,
J. S. Jewett,
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WATERNOMEE FALLS
On Hurricane brook are so called from the Indian chief, Wa- ternomee. Chase Whitcher shot a caribou here, sometime in the last century. Chas. A. Fiske, painter, from New York city, has spent whole summers by these "falling waters." The hottest days are cool and comfortable here.
HURRICANE FALLS
Are on Hurricane brook, above Waternomee falls. Mr. Wil- lard Hamilton, of Worcester, Mass., in 1870, fell down this fall, a distance of a hundred feet, where he caught upon a tree that had blown down and was saved from instant death; as it was, he was very severely bruised and injured. The water jumps down a series of steps more than two hundred perpendicular feet, at this falls.
WOLF'S-HEAD FALLS,
They are just above Hurricane falls. Amos F. Clough once made one of the most beautiful stereoscopic views of these falls that we ever saw.
DIANA'S BOWL
Is a beautiful basin worn in the rocks at the top of Wolf's-head falls. It is situated some 2,600 feet up the side of Mount Carr. The first mention we have of this spot is by Surveyor Leavitt. He ate his dinner there one day more than a hundred years ago. .
MIDDLE CASCADES
Are between Waternomee falls and Hurricane falls. The water jumps down sixty feet in the distance of a few rods.
INDIAN ROCK.
The marks on the rock are undoubtedly of Indian origin. They are the most remarkable monument of the Indians now existing in Asquamchumauke valley.
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HEIGHTS OF MOUNTAINS ABOUT WARREN.
The result of calculations by PROFS. HITCHCOCK AND HUNTINGTON, STATE GEOLOGISTS.
Moosehillock,-feet above the sea, 4,941 Owl's Head,-feet above the sea, 3,357
Mt. Black, 60
3,701 Mt. Waternomee, "
3,152
Mount Carr,
3,652 Mt. Mist, 60
66 2,373
Mt. Kineo, 66
60
3,557 Webster Slide, 66
66 2,320
Mt. Cushman, ืื
66
3,456 Mt. Sentinel,
66 2,209
THE MOOSILAUKE MOUNTAIN ROAD COMPANY.
This road company was incorporated at the June session of the Legislature, 1870. John E. Lyon, Joseph A. Dodge, Daniel Q. Clement, Samuel B. Page, David G. Marsh, G. F. Putnam, and James Clement were made the " body politic." The corporation immediately proceeded to build the road, and the work thus far has been under the superintendence of D. Q. and James Clement. They have pushed the enterprise with a great deal of energy and the road is nearly completed .- (For charter in full see Pamphlet Laws 1870, page 452.)
DISTANCES ON THE MOOSILAUKE ROAD,
Measured by NATHANIEL MERRILL, 2D, AND AMOS L. MERRILL.
1 mile 25 rods. From N. Merrill, 2d's to Benton line on west bank of Big brook,
66 Half-way Spring .* 2 โ 13
Half-way Monument .
2
66 66
Cold Spring.
3 " 121
66
Prospect House .
4 " 125
66
* It is said by thirsty people that Half-way Spring dries up in summer time when it rains.
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THE POETS OF WARREN.
The first great poet of our town lived on Pine hill. Only one of his productions has come down to us. It is entitled-
MOTHER CLUCK-A SCARCASTIC POEM. BY JOHN ABBOTT, FIFER.
The poet was a fifer in two wars, and a schoolmaster in time of peace. He blew a fife through the whole Revolution. Two families on Pine hill had a hot feud about a stolen drag. Abbott immortalized the great family fight by writing the following beau- tiful stanzas :-
Come all ye false professors, Who say you love the Lord, You always have a hell at home And strive for one abroad.
But when the d-1 comes for them, They will no longer brag, For he will tote them all away Upon the stolen drag.
Come listen to my ditty, The truth I will reveal; You tattle, lie, get drunk, And from your neighbors steal.
If you want to know the names Of those who stole the drag, They are Scotch bastard, burnt And Captain Rennett bag.
When the drag begins to move, They will all begin to teeter, Like mother Cluck with her budget Of lies astride of Hipen Peter.
When she had stole the buckle And the knife which she surely took, She said that she had found them Down by the alder brook.
You make a noise about a squirrel, Your neighbors to abuse, And then you go to meeting With your blackened Sunday shoes.
You kill your neighbors' ganders, About the chickens you make a touse, And then you crop the pigs' ears, And lay them up for souse.
You thought your store was rather small, That it might quickly fail- You turned your knife the other way And cut off a pig's tail.
When these folks go to meeting, They are for singing, red hot; And if they can't get singing They will rattle the - pot.
Now I will conclude my ditty --- No longer will I sing, Though they accuse innocent boys Of - - in the spring.
They said they were good judges of -, And that you can't deny, For one would - a kernel of wheat And another a kernel of rye.
THE MOOGENS.
AN ELEGY.
The Moogens were a strange, nondescript race that lived on the Summit sixty or seventy years ago. They then mysteriously disap- peared and none live at the Summit now. A wild sort of tradi- tion alleges that they were last seen going through the notch between Black mountain and Moosehillock, down by Beaver
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meadow ponds, and that they were all lost in the dark gorge known as the tunnel of the mountain. It is told that, like Hen- drick Hudson and his men in the Catskill mountains, their ghosts hold high carnival there every ten years; and the writer of this can solemnly affirm that in 1860, at the time when he spent two months. on the mountain top he once heard terrible and awful sounds coming up from far down in the dark depths of the tunnel as though all the lost Moogens were having a grand carousal, or in other words were raising h-1 and turning up jack.
Reuben B. French, of the East-parte, wrote a mournful elegy on this lost race. Only one stanza, the following, has come down to us: -
When God made man they paid the cost- The remnants he considered dross; He threw this out among the dung, And from it the Moogens sprung.
It is much to be regretted that all the other stanzas are lost.
SENTIMENTAL ACROSTIC.
BY OBADIAH CLEMENT.
The following verses were written by Col. C. on the death of his first wife, Sarah Batchelder :-
Oh mel unhappiest of all creatures, Unto you I will relate, I am unhappy in every feature, I've parted with my loving mate.
But since to God I must submit, And fall upon my bending knees, For to his creatures he has a right, To call them home when e're he please.
A thousand thoughts run through my head, While I do ponder all alone, To think, alas, my wife is dead, And gone into the silent tomb.
Dreadful hard it is to part, With one that has been always kind, Sometimes I think t'will break my heart, Or at least will wreck my mind.
I hope that I shall learn submission, And let my thoughts be cool and calm, And never run into distraction, Although my heart seems overwhelmed.
Alas the pains that pierce my heart, It seems as though it will me kill, But I must learn with friends to part, And to obey God's holy will.
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How desolate I now must be, While I am here upon the stage, And from my troubles never free, While I am in my pilgrimage.
Come people all, both great and small, Why are you hardened in your sins ? Come, and obey God's precious call, And be attentive unto him.
Look back into that Holy Book, And there you'll see that all have died, .
But only two, and God them took, We never read death on them tried.
Elijah he was carried up Into the air upon the wind, Elisha he looked after him, 'Till he dropped his mantle down behind.
Many sepulchres we read were used, Our Saviour he was laid in one, By ancient people of the Jews, And at the door they rolled a stone.
Equal with God, he then arose, And took his seat at his right hand, Ten thousand angels, as we suppose, Ready to obey the Lord's command.
Now let our love to God abound, For at the best we are but clay, Soon as the dying trumpets sound, Oh, then we can no longer stay.
Then under ground we all must rot, Beneath the cold and frozen sod, Our names and memory soon forgot, All to fulfil the will of God.
And now my name can here be read, I think I've spelled it very plain, And if you read it when I'm dead, Pray do not read it with disdain.
THESBIAN LYRIC.
BY " SCHUTE."
" Schute " and a party of friends prepared to visit the summit of the lofty Moosilauke. He invited Eva to accompany him. Her mother objected-would not let her go-on the ground that it would be too much of a task. "Schute" sorrowfully wrote the following lines :-
TO EVA.
Believe it or believe it not,- Dear Eva, on the mountain-top I found a little toad ; And it may puzzle you and I To know how he could climb so high And o'er so rough a road.
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His little legs you know are short, And consequently he is thought To be a clumsy climber. But he has beaten longer legs, And stronger frames and wiser heads, And some who are diviner.
I will not say he's beaten you,
Dear EVA,-that may not be true, But he has beaten others, The fault may not be theirs, I know;
Like you, dear Eva, they may owe Obedience to their mothers.
To mothers, too, who may have seen Some of the evil ways of men, And hence gave timely warning. They know too well a tarnished fame
Must end in grief and pain, And that a pure, unsullied name Is woman's best adorning.
And your fond mother, knowing this, Dear Eva, thought it not amiss To keep you nearer home, Nor trust her darling out of sight Upon Moosilauke's towering height With men whose motives might be right, Yet still to her unknown.
But Eva, may I dare to hope. The happy day is not remote When you will venture up the slope With some one whom you'll know ; And may the one who shares with you The toilsome jaunt, the glorious view, Not only be a friend to you, But may he be your beau.
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And Eva, whether high or low, Or up or down life's path you go, With husband, friend, or lover : Whatever be your lot below,- Remember you will ever owe Allegiance to your mother.
THE SERPENT.
A SLEIGHING SONG, BY MERRILL BIXBY.
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