“I am a Republican and want a piece of pie. Anything will do me from guard at the penitentiary up as high as you will go. If you can’t give me a slice of pie, please save me a bite of the crust.”
So long as the spirit of the writer of this unusual epistle is abroad in the land, politics will be degraded and a better state of things retarded.
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Oil on the Waters—See [Experiment].
Old Age—See [Immortality].
Old Age and Work—See [Fame and Time].
OLD AGE CHEERED
The incident related below by the Rev. Asa Bullard is an example that ought frequently to be imitated:
At the “Old People’s Day” in 1881, I was invited to be with Mr. Batt. The house was quite full on the occasion. There were sixty people present who were over sixty years of age, and twenty-five who were eighty years of age or more. A bouquet was presented to each of these twenty-five. They arose, as their names were called, and received the bouquets as they were presented by the hands of children. At the close of the meeting one of those addrest said: “It knocked twenty years right off from my age.”—“Incidents in a Busy Life.”
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