Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 27, October 1, 1870 by Various
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Well, the next place the boat stopped at is called "Sabbath Day Point,"
in consequence of ABERCROMBIE having landed there on a Wednesday morning. Its name will therefore be considered a joke by such as see the Point. A gentleman on board informed me that the water was so clear at this place that one could "see objects when thirty feet from the bottom." I have thought and thought over this remark, but am unable to see what one's distance from the bottom has to do with his "seeing objects." I give it up. On the opposite side of the Lake is a hill called "Sugar Loaf Mountain"--because it is a sweet place for loafers, I suppose. Finally we passed "Rogers' Slide," which is a rocky precipice three hundred feet high, sloping nearly perpendicularly into the water. A decidedly unpleasant-looking place for cellar-door practice. There are a great many romantic traditions about this same ROGERS, who is regarded by the simple natives as having been an altogether high-minded and gorgeous character--the fact being that he was one of those unmitigated old scamps who owe to the accident of having lived in Revolutionary times, the distinction of being held up to the emulation of primary schools as a "Patriot Hero." Literally he was simply an "unmixed evil," fighting only to steal something, and devoting what time and talent he could spare from his legitimate profession--which was _seven-up_--to generally bedevilling and encroaching upon the |
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