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frequent Stop* —

-ads the sign on Mr. Aliie Slaughter's mail basket, as he makes hi* rounds of the court

delivering their; mail house circle, twice daily. * -Everyone knows “Mr.

in I the community

Aliie” and knowing him, are familiar) with his lore of, jokes and his constant good nature. On becoming! 81 Ithis year he commented

: "Dw’t }see why I can’t live another! ; 81: feel stronger • i right now t un 1 did 81 years „ ago.—(groan softly, please.) [ *

These yeais began in October of 1873 at the family home “The Oaks", when Francis L. Slaugh. ter and Susan Fitzhugh Slaughter proclaimed their first-born Albert judson Slaughter. One pf three brothers, he had | no sisters, j His father was a jnati nock and his jmor County.

When Aliie, Long, venture^! on more. Even now vividly, the stage

of Rappahanof

Carolimf

of age, little

(Miss Mary

a trip to Baltihe

remembers

wagon at hi* front door, the oWr-night May in Culpeper, as women couldn’t

in travel at night then the traini trip; to Baltimore.

those times; and

While attending the circus during his visit, “soneje fellow tried ; t» “catnap"

(ki<fnap) me, caught my bead under his arm.” “I w»* more afraid of getting lost from my fv y, th-ii of Being stolen—: the lights, gas 1 ghts on poles, were so dim.” Wiggling out of his hat, 'the youth lent wings to his feet, and got sway—-“Never have liked, a hat since.” “What did J see” • General Tom Thumb with, high silk kat, and hii tiny wife, dressed in. long