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All Things Were Bigger Then

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
September
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Apropos of bundies, a correspondent who remembers things writes: "I niet the Rev. Mr. Chickering one day when he was pastor of the High Street church, and he carried a huge lobster tinder his arm. He shook it in my face and said laughingly : 'I guess my character will bear me out. Nobody -will think I have robbed a lobster cart, thongh I ara hurrying h'ome with my spoil. ' "Nobody can carry a hnge lobster home under his arm now, for the reason that nobody can find one to carry. In Dr. Chickering's time lobsters grew so big that the gigantic shell in Levi Atwood's window would turn a deeper red with mortificationatthecomparison and blush at its inferiority. "In f act, all things were bigger in Dr. Chickering's day. I often caught trout that measnred 24 inches - I am letting myself teil it. The grass was greener then and the sky a deeper blue. Flowers were more flagrant, apples had rnddier cheeks, beechnuts were plentier, and boys smoked sweet fern. Qreat men were easier to find. I remember a group of them in my native town, though at this moment unable to recall their names, wiser than men who live now. Exactly what they said or did I do not remember - it was a long time ago - but there is no doubt about their wisdom.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News