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Meeting Tim Bunce some days after, he said, in an aside, " Tell you what, Harry, it 's no use saying our rolling stone gathered no moss, for did n't it bring old Morse to the door in a hurry ? " The affair made some stir in town. Some ex- pressed the belief that it was the watchmen who set 86 THE BOYS OF THIRTY-FIVE. the stone in motion ; the citizens then took turns on the night watch, by way of paying some portion of their taxes, and it was said that the watch were not always exempt from a mi...schievous disposition, and that many mad pranks were of their commission. Others held that the stone must have fallen off the pile and set out on its travels on its own account. We never contradicted this reasonable supposition, being well content that the stone should bear the whole weight of its transgression. Withingtofl, the local poet, who used to sell his rhymes about the streets, printed on broadsides, made a song concerning the event, beginning, " Oh, have you heard the news of late, How down the street came rolling straight, At midnight's witching hour, A mighty stone that found its way Where, in death's grasp, our neighbor lay, And ' waked ' him with its power?
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