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Show Only tne Goffstown Muster. Many ye'nrs ago tho Goffstown mus-tpr mus-tpr was the great annual event hi southern New Hampshire, and the people turned out from far and near to ntteud !t. Early one morning a young countryman country-man tilled himself with hard elder and doughnuts and started for tho muster. It was a misty morning, which mailo things lather Indistinct. An aged couplo on their way to tho muster took a short cut through the graveyard, and wore Just climbing over tliD fence whin the young farmer farm-er saw them through the fog. He stopped and looked at them, nnd then shouted "Go buck, old man, go back, this Isn't the llnal res' urrectlon, It's onl tho Goffstown muster.' |