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Show COlSXTOEBALU 01 A PIACE. A gentleman who had occasion to go? to an inland New England village ten mile from a railroad was met at the station by an old fellow who looked as if he. might have Just awakened after a Rip Van Winkle sleep. His horse and buggy were- m keeping- with their own-, er's ancient appearance. "Here we air at last, said the driver-, when they finally came to three houses and a blacksmith's shop. "This isn't much of a place, is it? said the depressed stranger, looking; around. "Oh. you. don't see all o' it here,", was the reply. "Thar's two more houses over behind that hill thar, an a cooper's coop-er's shop Jest around that bend in the road thar. Come to 'bunch 'em all together to-gether an' It's consid'able o' a place-but, place-but, p' course, it ain't New York." Woman's Wo-man's Home Companion. |