Part 14 (2/2)
”A hty lot of attention”
”A daylight charht alarmer”
”A wee little speciood els”
”A curious bud of uncertain blossom”
”The most extensive employer of female labor”
”That which increases the mother's toil, decreases the father's cash, and serves as an alarhbors”
”It's a sweet and tiny treasure”
”A torment and a tease,”
”It's an autocrat and anarchist,”
”Tful things to please”
”It's a rest and peace disturber,”
”With little laughing ways,”
”It's a wailing huht alarm,”
”A terror of your days”
And this final definition which exactly describes each of our quartette,
”The sweetest thing God ever s to”
To crown the honors which this year were thrust upon me, my political party tendered me the nomination for mayor of the city; but when I ascertained the fact that I would be obliged to bribe the 300 roosters on the fence who held the balance of power, and who must be paid two dollars each to persuade them to come off their perch and vote, I preferred the 600 to the empty honor, and declined
It is said that dame fortune knocks once at every ly-faced unhter, mis-fortune At the request of some of the Boston newspapers, I wrote an account for the press of my Florida journey and observations, which attractedere the F---- brothers, of Boston, who painted the attractions of a town of Orange County in such glowing colors, that I was induced to visit said place in summer accompanied by my friend, lawyer S---- of Newburyport
We found even the sureeable the location very attractive, and the general prospects for a northern colony there quite pro quail, an occasional wild turkey, caught fish fro sometimes under the pines, then in houses, whose owners were away visiting with no thought of locking their doors in this land where thieving was unknown We led a real Bohe hundreds of acres of land, and having located a hotel and townsite between two char a Mr G---- W---- a friend of the F---- brothers, as superintendent, to secure more lands and to cut avenues, ent home, where we foreneral er, with full powers to sell 50,000 of stock hich to pay for the bonded lands and the building of a hotel
I sold the stock at 100 per share, giving one acre of land with each share of said stock This would have been a very successful enterprise had it not been for the cunning duplicity and greed of our superintendent, who proceeded diligently to ”feather his own nest”