Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — Droll Stephen Grant. [ARTICLE]

Droll Stephen Grant.

Stephen Grant was an erratic genius, whose jests and extravagant sayings ; were e ijoyed by his contemporaries. I I Mr. Fell, in bis “Bench and Bar of i ■ New Hampshire/’ gives the following I specimen of his droll way of putting things. He was a “rolling stone” in ‘ his profession, the law, and once went 1 I to Wentworth to live, but did not stay , ! there long. Being asked hi; reason for leaving the place so scon, he replied: j “There’s not rcom enough there. The hills come down all round so close together that there is no space to turn ■ round in. A little shoemaker moved in and began business there, but when he tried to pull out his wax he hit both i , elbows against the hills.’’—Youth’s Companion. 1 1 ‘ -. ' Almost ai many orators as raw re*, I cruits shoot too high.