| Show the honorable board sam rawson occasionally said a good thing and one of these occasions chanced to be the town meeting the people of sams village could not understand how the money appropriated for the roads had vanished with such poor results A stretch of road running past sams bouse was in notoriously poor condition although sam declared that he bad paid liberally to have it put in good order and there was general in terest when sam rose to make his state i ment before the selectmen id just like to say one thing he drawled heedless of the fact that he had interrupted an indignant neighbor 1 I dont want to mako any fuss but id just like to ask the honorable board of highwaymen that was as far as he could get A roar of laughter swept over the town meeting and showed its effects in the red faces of the highwaymen youths companion |
