On account of threatening bad weather Jeremiah and Ebenezer had hauled in hay all night and were, no doubt, physically tired out. When it began to rain in the morning, they lay down for a rest, and both fell asleep. Jeremiah was the first to awake, and realizing that they had slept longer than they intended, called out, "Eben, Eben, wake up, its almost sun down." When both had become thoroughly awakened, they found that it was sunrise of the next day, and that they had slept nearly twenty-four hours.

At the time when Ebenezer and Jeremiah built their barn in So. Otisfield, Me., the frame of the building was raised at an "old time raising." On such occasions the men folk of the inhabitants within a radius of, say five miles were invited to participate in raising the timbers. It was customary to christen the new building when the framework had been completely raised. This consisted of a short speech, often a stanza of poetry, delivered by a man standing upon the ridgepole, following which he drank a bottle of liquor. On this occasion the following was recited:-