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At any rate, whether Tuesday or Wednesday, it is certain that it was quarter past twelve, according to the clock presented to the Methodist Society by the Honorable Heman Atkins, when Asaph Tidditt came down the steps of the townhall, after the selectmen's meeting, and saw Bailey Bangs waiting for him on the opposite side of the road. "Hello, Ase!" hailed Mr. Bangs.
Gabe was, as usual, waiting at the station when the down train arrived, on the Tuesday or Wednesday of the selectmen's meeting. The train was due, according to the time-table, at eleven forty-five. This time-table, and the signboard of the "Bayport Hotel" are the only bits of humorous literature peculiar to our village, unless we add the political editorials of the Bayport Breeze.
Seems sometimes as if I'd have a fit, I get so sick of loafin'." His idea of a "loaf" was rising at six and weeding his garden, superintending the labor on his cranberry swamps or about his barns and grounds, attending bank and Selectmen's meetings, and generally keeping busy until sunset.
"Chairman of the Board of Selectmen's what he is." "Good man fur't," said Scattergood, waggling his head. "Calculate to be on good terms with him, Marvin? Perty good terms?" "Good enough so's he kin ask me to loan him two thousand dollars he's needin' a'mighty bad." "Give it to him, Marvin?" "Huh!" said Marvin, eloquently. "If I was to indorse his note, think you could see your way clear?"
You'll read the minutes at selectmen's meetings for another fifty year, more or less; take my word for it. As for the school committee, that's different. I ain't made up my mind about that." There had been much discussion concerning the school committee. Who should be chosen to replace Mr. Myrick on the board was the gravest question to come before the meeting.
Sometimes a house was hired for them, and, in addition to rent paid, we find in the selectmen's charges such items as these: Direct evidence to the helpless condition of the two families of French Neutrals in Lancaster is given in a letter from the selectmen, dated January 24, 1757, found in Massachusetts Archives, xxiii, 330:
Gramma Pilot's cow had been poisoned. There had been a fire in the Selectmen's room at Town Hall. Amber Matheson had left Mrs. Wharf's Millinery and set up for herself, opposite the Eastern School. And Mate Snow, all of a sudden, had bought the old Pons house, on the hill hanging high over the town, and gone to live there.
I know all about it. Come away, quick; I've got something very important to say to you." And she took her dad's arm and went off down the hill, mopping her pretty eyes with her handkerchief and smiling back, every once in a while, through her tears, at Asaph. Now, it happened that there was a selectmen's meeting that afternoon at four o'clock.
You ain't seen Abner Payne; he's out of town " "Don't have to see him. He's made me an offer and I'll write and accept it." "But you've got to have a selectmen's permit to move " "Got it. I went up and saw the chairman an hour ago. He's a friend of mine. I nominated him town-meetin' day." "But," stammered Phinney, very much upset by the suddenness of it all, "you ain't got my price nor "
It was decided by the committee to have a reception in the Selectmen's room. It was conveniently arranged for such a purpose, having a door at either end, besides the double one near the middle. At the request of Selectman and Toastmaster Strout, the Governor and his wife and the Countess of Sussex, formerly Lindy Putnam, stood in line to greet the citizens of Fernborough.
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