VIEW AT M’CLINTOCKVILLE IN 1862.
Picking cherries was sometimes a mixed operation in the land of grease.
OILY OOZINGS.
Kerosene is often the last scene.
The ladies—God bless them!—are nothing if not consistent—at times. It used to be a fad with Bradford wives to keep a stuffed owl in the parlor for ornament and a stuffed club in the hall for the night-owl’s benefit.
The Oil-Creek girls are the dandy girls,
For their kiss is most intense;
They’ve got a grip like a rotary-pump
That will lift you over the fence.
The steel of a rimmer was lost in a drilling well on Cherry Run. After fishing for it for a longtime the well-owner, becoming discouraged, offered a man one-thousand dollars to take it out. He broomed the end of a tough block, ran it down the well attached to the tools and in ten minutes had the steel out.