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Show Hate-Evil Colson Discovered. , The story of Hate-Evil Colson and tho overshoes, a told In the Herald .on a recent Sunday, recalls to mind another story of this same itinerant .cobbler, who half a century or more ago was known throughout the length and breadth of Maine. Ho had applied for lodging, as was his custom, at tho homo of a farmer, and was given a "shakedown" on the kitchen floor. Along In tho middle ol the night his host heard a disturbance In tho kitchen a tattling of tho stove and the splashing of water. Going softly down the stairs, ho discovered Hate-Evil, In the dress of Father Adam, Ad-am, sousing his underclothing, first in a tub of scalding water and then Jn ono of cold water, and muttering to himself: "Sudden hea and sudden cold will kill tho devil!" Boston Herald. |
