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^ate of the board, nearly every Fair in the State that had preceeded this. 

 He complimented in an especial manner, also, the makers of the 

 bread, especially of rye bread. ' If,' said he, there is a live woman 

 at this table, whose delicate fingers mixed and moulded that rye bread 

 (so called,) I call upon her to rise in her place and pledge me her 

 affidavit, that the material was rye flour, and, if it was, to tell me 

 where it was procured, for I wish to carry a bag of it home to my 

 wife." Still, he added, I have complaint to make of the scarcity of 

 ladies at the Fair. So marked was this delinquency, that, compared 

 with other shows he had attended, there were no ladies at all at this 

 exhibition, " Where were the bread rhakers, why were not the 

 ladies who made the bread at the tables, showing it off?" The 

 speaker concluded with a sentiment, borrowed from the original hymn 

 by Mr. Frisbie of Amherst College, sung during the exercises at the 

 church, A^hich, said he, looking over the printed copy, as I do not 

 see that a copyright is secured, I beg to appropriate for thi occasion : 

 " In all coming days God speed the Plow!" 



The next sentiment was complimentary to Amherst College. 



Hon. Alexander H. Bullock of Worcester, one of the Trustees 

 of the College, and one of her most cherished sons and gifted orators, 

 responded in an elegant speech. Every one knows Col. B.'s sur- 

 passing power as a public speaker. We very much doubt if he ever, 

 in the whole course of his life as a speaker, delivered an address, 

 intrinsically better, or that was listened to with more evident pleasure 

 or sympathy by an audience. He first spoke of the pleasure his 

 present visit to Amherst aftbrded him — to behold again this beautiful 

 scenery, to gaze again upon the broad fields of this valley, still in 

 their glorious array of green ; and especially of the happiness it 

 afi"orded him to meet again his old and venerated teacher (Dr. Hitch- 

 cock.) In playful allusion to his college life here, more than twenty 

 years ago, like all college boys partly for frolic, and partly for study 

 he said if Dr. Hitchcock's theories respecting the formation of the 

 fossil tracks should prove true, and he should have a successor who 

 should in future ages, dig up and deposit in the ' Appleton Cab- 

 inet' the fossil tracks which might be found in certain cornfields, 

 orchards and melon patches, within sight of the College, he hoped 

 that his (the speaker's) would not be there ! 



