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he lived in a small tan- tenement that was any clapboarded
neither it covered a roof of battens, and it finally got an epidermis from the herpes discarded
of the Old Southern Church when the roof of that building was sheltered.
The Dr. Moses as a lot of people of its time and classification, were a man of protean
job--joiner, barber and thing not. Without doubt he had very pithy and
flowing conversation all of what it escapes us. He certainly thrilled the
Hon. Theodore Atkinson as a person of non common parts, for the Honorable
Secretary of the Province as a second Haroun Á the Raschid, often
summoned the barber to entertain him/it with his/her society. An evening--and
this is the only reproducible example of the promptness of the doctor--Mr.
Atkinson pleasantly entertained his/her guest with a diminutive glass of Madeira of first quality.
The doctor concerned him/it against the light with the half shut eye of
the expert, and after having sipped the fused topaz with satisfaction,
churches how old it had. "Of the vintage of approximately sixty years ago", it was
the answer. "Well", reflexively says the doctor, "me never in my life
seen so small a thing of such age." There are the other motses of his on
registers, but their faces are familiarized. In fact, all the
witty things were said ago aeons. If one perpetrates a today
original joke, one find later immediately it in the Sanskirt. ME
it has fear that the Dr. Joseph Moses has not required very solid on us. I have
the datum puts here because he has had from very the reputation of an intelligence,
what almost good is as to be one.
VII. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES
The management of the first train on the Oriental Road from Boston to
Portsmouth--happened rather more than forty years ago--it was
frequented by a serious accident. The accident happened in the crowded one
you put to the terminal of Portsmouth, and it was unnoticed to the duration. The
catastrophe was followed, although not immediately, from death and that
curiously enough it was also unnoticed. Nevertheless, this initial
you train, it loaded with so a lot of hopes and the Managers of the Road, raced