That tree will be handy to hang a peddler…

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boughs, they fix the one-line swing — And when the picnic rode away the tree was blossoming. O, let us then, whate’er we do, plant acorns while we may, For one of them may grow to be a lusty free some day; And then, some pleasant mornin, when we’ve nothing else to do. That tree will be handy to hang a peddler book agent, proof-reader, philanthropist, poet, editor, worthy-man lecturer, amateur, photographer, base ball crank, tennis fiend, and sev- eral other people who need a little hanging, too. ( 93 ) An Historical Gun From the Democrat.

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do. That tree will be handy to hang a peddler book agent, proof-reader, philanthropist, poet, editor, worthy-man lecturer, amateur, photographer, base ball crank, tennis fiend, and sev- eral other people who need a little hanging, too. ( 93 ) An Historical Gun From the Democrat. Your mention in the Democrat of the buried confederate guns at Albuquerque re- minds me of a famous gun battle which, his- torically, figured in the Mexican war of ’46 and known as the “Lone Star of Texas”. It belonged at sundry times to three republics — Texas, Mex- ico and Uncle Sam. All who have in any way been interested in the early history of the “woolly west” have read of the daring ill-fated, but romantic expedition of George W. Kendall, of the New Orleans Picayune, over 55 years ago, for the capture of New Mexico. It was then claimed this territory belonged to and was a portion of the Republic of Texas and Randall’s party of adventurous heroes to redeem it, sallied out from San Antonio and passed through that dreary waste, of almost a continent, crossing the blighted “llano estancado,” arrived safely at the frontier village of Anton Chico, a few miles south of our present city of Las Vegas. The “Lone star” figured conspicuously in this noted expedition and was a brass sixpounder cast in Springfield, Mass., with a solitary star adorning its breech and was presented by patriotic ladies to the Lone Star Republic, then struggling for liberty and independence.