Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 21, 1900

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MRS POMFRET MAKER OF GENIUSES Alclton T Hatch was almost a prodigy Indeed to one ordinarily versed in the distinctive marks of embryo genius be might have seemed prodigy pure and simple Two circumstances however kept him out of the infant phenomenon class he was as yet a prophet in his own country and Airs Ioutlet refused to give Him his standing It was not known among the Apville people just why Melton T was outside the pale of genius hut all understood there was some good reason so it seemed openly schismatic of Airs Ilanslomthe new tailors wifeto declare that the hoy teas a genius positively And when Airs Iontret was quoted by the opposition Airs Ilanslom had laughingly added that comets were always more or less inconvenient to celestial bodies of fixed habits and that a certain person could not hope to order the universe forever and to keep alw ays intact her neat little assortment of carefully graded stars This remark made at the sew ing circle traveled straight to the lonely ears of Mrs homfret as she watered her gladi olai and mignonette in the early morn ing pending the arrival of the milkman with the