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The Ward children had never spent much time at Marbury, with grandma, since they had their own summer home at Kayuna, in East Wellsboro. They had often been there for short visits, however, as mamma generally took one or another of her little flock with her, in her frequent trips to see grandma.
Miss Hilda Mason, of East Wellsboro', is expected soon to spend a week with her friend, the editor. How to get along in the world. Walk. A little girl visiting the country for the first time, saw a man milking. After looking a few minutes, she asked, "Where do they put it in?" When is a man thinner than a shingle? When he's a-shaving. What was the first carriage Washington ever rode in?
The campfire question came to a crisis, however, with two or three of these old settlers. And, as the story well illustrates my point, I will venture to tell it. It was in the "dark days before Christmas" that a party of four started from W., bound for a camp on Second Fork, in the deepest part of the wilderness that lies between Wellsboro and the Block House.
"Wal," continued Nimbus, "we went on ter Wellsboro, an' dar we sold de 'backer. Den we kinder divided up. I tuk most o' de money an' went on South, an' Berry tuk de mule an' carry-all an' started fer his home in Hanson County.
"I'm wild to get behind Mopsie and Charcoal again," for the ponies had been sent over from East Wellsboro for the children's use. "I'm going to " began Cricket, and then she stopped, remembering that she was going to surprise the family with what she felt sure would be the result of her mining explorations, the finding of mamma's long-buried money-bag.
He was re-elected to the Thirty-Eighth, Thirty-Ninth, and Fortieth Congresses. 31, 51, 230, 237, 239, 288, 294, 325, 536. STEPHEN F. WILSON was born at Columbia, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1821. He received his education at Wellsboro' Academy, where he subsequently engaged for a short time in teaching. He finally became a lawyer, and was, in 1863, elected a State Senator.
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