WELLS ON BENNINGHOFF RUN, VENANGO COUNTY, PA., IN 1866.
[From a photograph taken one hour before they were destroyed by lightning.]
VIII.
PICKING RIPE CHERRIES.
Juicy Streaks Bordering Oil Creek—Famous Benninghoff Robbery—Close Call for a Fortune—City Set Upon a Hill—Alemagooselum to the Front—Cherry Run’s Whirligig—Romance of the Reed Well—Smith and McFate Farms—Pleasantville, Shamburg and Red Hot—Experiences Not Unworthy of the Arabian Nights.
“Who can view the ripened rose, nor seek to wear it?”—Byron.
“Black’s not so black, nor white so very white.”—Canning.
“Wild and eerie is the story, but it is true as Truth.”—Hall Caine.
“No two successes ever were alike.”—Hawthorne.
“There is nothing so great as the collection of the minute.”—Vitus Auctor.
“The toad beneath the harrow knows