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NESDAY, OCTOBfctheirOf hiH b, and hem ? hters,b, thei withthine ntext, he at-heart i right Third, The heart, f love eart iahappi-art toegularroomry into be ■ life's spoke ioee.ly, thei hun-1 andd this [.Prop-before i good ent of there-[entle-•levsnIng, to Lied inexpe-of the d at a posedREED'8 OAT, WALLINGFORD.Reed's Gap, in Wallingford, made famons by the Air Line railroad company killing half a dozen men with glycerine, and making a great fnss over half a dozen diamond drills, while cntting through twenty feet of trap rock, a distance of twenty rods or less, was so called, because of the former residence, st that point, of an old Dutchman, who rejoiced in the name of Reed. He was a revolutionary pensioner. and his bounty-land chanced to be located in this section Here ho came to dwell, and here he squatted, with his little family (which after a time increased iu numbers), in a little cabin houso, which occupied the site on the soutnweBt bank of the southerly entrance to the railroad cut. The venerable Reed is spoken of as leading a sort of Gypsy life, with his family, and many were the distant neighbors in Wallingford and Durham who from time to time missed now a sheep or lamb, and now a hen, or turkey, or pig, as the might be. The Dutchman at the Gap was apectedof being the abetraotor, bu vara that the stolen property could be ; borne to him. It appears that’•theyounger children had been schooled to reticence in these little matters of business, and they bad been taaght that all white animals with fleece on their backs were white rabbits. One day, the old Dutchman and his eldest sons were absent on bosinecs, when a deputation of Durham gentlemen visited the Gap, in search of two sheep which had “strayed away’* »he night previous. Observing the children playing out of door, the youngsters were enquired of as to whether they had seen any aheep about their house. “No, we ain’t seen no aheep,” waa the reply of one; “but there's two white rabbits down cellar.” The party made a tour of inspection into the lower regions, and there, behind the chimney, sureenough, were the missing sheep. The old dwelling was pulled dowu many years ago, and the property was sequestered to the town. The Gap, so-called, is simply an interval or natural pass between two parallel ranges of mountains, tbs noitherly brow of the easterly mountain continuing an eighth of a mile beyond the stutherly face of the west mountain—the twe-being a quarter of a mile apart,thus tormina a pass or defile, en a level with roundmgthe surroicountry,From t! Foretrouble News. our cg singledare6 r appear knowlenal.Nocis a go is noc i to be d idcnceorganas to n body r which far bey tion, a commtfor ad imentswish tlt; that th day, mo'clockover ui is getti than w probafc erally i butiony:iE GERMAN AMERICANS.IK glVtfor a f so muwe de the bt tion, I count day tlt; inforninteictercstal waycal chn c t e*
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Meriden Literary Recorder
Meriden, Connecticut, US
Wed, Oct 05, 1870
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