Show artenua WARDS HOMS hamlets of and arn many not one sui passes in and quiet beauty the little villaire villi iRe of waterford Water foid ox ford county charles F blown 1 better known as artemus ward was born 1 I be place is about forty five miles from portland it contains only about one hundred inhabitants it lies on the shore of a arge lake known a tom pi nd at the foot of a precipitous mountain called mont anem are mostly farmer aud as a i ile well to do within the limits of the town are ganv hill ponds and trout brool hile the crooked mer imer i manages by hard attention to busicco bu sinco to winder ciet teen miles in closing the soven miles ade township ahe countey about aej once contained belt of p no nabei in mime artemus liked V but coanta foi ho gelitis that within two months after i suin lous min had made un jfhn bald head his aunt died and left him a fai m in d ci anty maine the human mind can piarie no ic itei inister tin than tin Artemus father died ft hen the boy n as about torn teen paia old and as he family beio s mo what limited thereby he was to J al published pulli shed the coos Defio crat lit N 11 line to lunched r run by ohp brov n hoai estAd ibid not wilh tho ability of tin future eail showman in tho was of le pokes knew how be shows wherein his red cow ft ich a coit leeve stuffed full hanfling hanf fing horn her nose seivel as the elephant elep hint upon chuh innocent country acie invited to v ith stait line results ahey knew too how old deacon halo white hoi ahad ben induced to wander ariy or milea follo a tempting bit ot ha hanff j nt n t beyond reach b means ot a lath strapped to tha bior e s neck there ot gotten up by the boy to atif tl e in and his mother in pai dicu ticu lar and all these tt ere well known to tho stare drivers tho oune started for hancl astei eapen to know as much ai possible about his future residence tho veteran anver stee aeiry having oily conspire edi ith the bot sin rix 8 office to giva iron a fitting reception lec eption aalur cd him that mi p ous man and that hia hands acie it anything indio he and that the jojn er the would be brimmed on the catechism cite chism the bertei listened listen fd dolefully it nac 1 its atnia cit ataee reached lam he tor and in ho looming 5 oune hied the office ahe loice con att ed and in ico named ahey received him solemnly tha journe man him a bibo ind made him lead a liter which ha vas on the hn was savere ly commented but he ws pel to go to work at neon a simi ida WAS while in ene listed on theoffice fico all day iho axt went to the office ie ched to un aai awi at the end lut on lokina about filed to and ln ti bow 1 n learh regaled ree aled them stain too intoxicated to alk brown wis 0 o inary the acell hat he cioto a boto to ched river thi eatn jovn out 1 otan a flint is iliano was a sur rise to all ho knew bun A to bis kinlock no v is in the dead and hn ahe donld acta 0 with his life but avei mr the nam lc of leopla aho vho waterford Wat eiford to bis mollier now almost taisoo tai sot affe india ind ii town hn th inid int little cioca lii fmc ahe milage erean about which be lole ind loved to 11 1 1 as edeen and pretty s ever old is still one of the best in the town and the tide of umi nei troubles tho q net strict b it little browns remains were bunca in alc beai tho oil place is markci with a pitin pi tin alib much at the time of bis brinl some of im lit airy getting lip a nomi mant and did pasi revolution reio lution to thit effect ahe monument though much beaded his never app ared A cory ot the resolutions wa hone vei ent to the grateful ieli tive s usual in such cases all ahn cr looked with much suspicion on the reports of charles hid H id they not al wars known him as a tow headed mischievous iad whose future they disliked to pred ct but now the line en erwied upon hia tombstone to bo traer hererer A wards aio known his thill remain amneet and unfading un fAdini it collection |