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difficulty, whether caused by a difference of opinion, or because both 

 thought alike, — at any rate, it was so long ago, that the least said 

 about it in this presence, the better. Every one knew that taking 

 fruit in improper quantities, or at impa'oper times always causes 

 trouble. Since he was up he should take occasion to correc^ 

 and set right the gentleman from the State Board (Mr. Page^ 

 who in the midst of his raptuous enconiums on rye bread, paused to 

 complain, that the ladies were not there, and asked why were not the 

 ladies in the hall of exhibition, — where were the ladies that made 

 that rye bread ? " As to the bread," said the Prof., " I will inform 

 the gentleman, it is no unusual affair ; we always have just such 

 bread in this valley ; only an every day occurrence with us. As to 

 the ladies, I will tell the gentleman where they were — they were at 

 home, making rye bread!" (Here Mr. P. acknowledged the correc- 

 tion as perfectly satisfactory, and begged to retract every word he had 

 said in detraction of the ladies.) Prof. H. kept the tables in a roar 

 of laughter the whole time of his highly humorous speech. 



The dinner exercises were enlivened at intervals by appropriate 

 music by the Ingraham (South Pladley) Band. 



There were several distinguished gentlemen present, who would 

 have been called upon for speeches, had time permitted — and among 

 them were Pkes. Steakns of Amherst College, Hon. Edwaed 

 Dickinson, Ex. M. C. ; Pkof. W. S. Tyi-er, just returned from 

 his European tour ; Prof W. C. Foavler ; Mr. Fogg, of Deerfield, 

 President of the Franklin Agricultural Society; Judge Hodges, 

 Secy, of the H. F. & H. Agricultural Society ; J. R. Trumbull, of 

 the Hampshire Gazette ; Dr. Holland, of the Springfield Republi- 

 can, and others. 



The dinner concluded at a late hour in the afternoon. And so 

 ended the seventh, and most successful Cattle Show of the Hampshire 

 Agricultural Society. 



