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Show DILEMMA OF SAMMY HANDSCOMB Serious Question as to Whether 'He Was Alive or Dead, ' Some of the older citlwms or Gloucester Glou-cester n-ust renis-mber Sammy Hands-tomo, Hands-tomo, who whs n well known character char-acter In that town Forao. fifty years or More ago. says a writer In th Hoaton Herald, He was tliu butt for many Jokes, some of which were carried too far. for Sammy's comfort. During the "Know-Nothing" cam-pnisn, cam-pnisn, wiien Henry J, Gardner was elected governor or Massachusetts, tliero whs a torchlight parade In Glou-center, Glou-center, and Sammy, as usual,' was try much In evidence, until somo one threw an ovor-rlpo (oniato which hit him on the ear. It landed Just ns there- was an explosion of ftro-works, ftro-works, nnd Sammy fell In his tracks. He wns picked up and helped to n chair In a ncarliy Ktore, when somo ope asked If ho was Iwdly hurt. "Well. I don't know," ho Mid, putting put-ting his hand to his ear and thoo Klanclns at his hand, "hut' I mies'it if that's blood I'm u dead man." |