There comes
a time when laughing spring,
And golden
summer cease to be,
And we
put on the autumn robe,
To tread
the last declivity.
But now
the slope
with hope,
Beyond
the sunset we behold--
Another
dawn with fairer light,
While
watchers whisper through the night.
We'll
grow no longer old.
The writer
takes this opportunity to thank Prof. Cook, Messrs. North, Jones, Dixon,
Lewis, Horn, Sparks, Amrine, Grant, Shaffer, Starkey, Willis, and others
for vaulable information furnished for use in the above compilation, and
whose valuable assistance the foregoing could not have been written. Much
of interest has no doubt, been omitted. The writer has conscientiously
tried to think of everybody and of everything but being only human, has
without doubt failed in many instances. For his faults of commission and
omission he begs pardon, and only hopes that the reading of this little
history will give you the pleasure (minus the trouble) that its preparation
has given him.
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THOMAS CORBLEY
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