Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-06-29
MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, JUNE 90. 1880.

nome. She had little old fashioned strait
backed rocking chair and little trunk CO.
vered over with blue and white paper, and
a little curly dog, with tail as curly as his
hair, and hind leg that tried to initiate his
tai--he was the only companion the Ole Ia
dy had, and in the simplicity and innocence
OF her soul, she never dreamed that any
other protector was necessary. So SHE
sat in her little old strait backed rocking.
chair, and rocked backwards and forwards
and worked away ut an imaginary knitting
work, and wondered and wondered.
81 say, mother are you going west"
claw yes! as soon's can find boat.
"S'pose you take the Hio, she's crack
steamboat on these waters"
"Shan't 60 on yer steamboats,; I'm feard
on en-" ... -..-.. ....
"Why, good mother, they won't hurt
you'll H.
Matter enough, | can tell you'-and the
old lady turned away her head and rocked
furiously, and beat time with her foot, on
the little blue and white trunk" don't they
have great fire on 'em and heat water BIZ
lin hot, and don't they blow up and kill folks,
and scald em all to bister!"
"Some Of them do, that's fact, but the
lilo don't do that thing. We never heal
our water 10 boiling point on her; she goes
fast enough without-we only warm it. a
little, just to take the chill of, you know"
"But don't you have nation great fire
a going all the timer
con, no, certainly not we always car
ry the water ashore when we warm it, and
then only a pail full at time"
"We'l, that's safe, any how" said the
old lady, Sand don't care If 60 and see
if there's place that III suit Bose and /"
As she stepped upon the boat, some hor-
ses were going on at the other gangway,
aud the lilo careencd a little.
claw me-" said the old lady, "how it
tips" seems TO me, it looks narrer, don't
it to you!--if the wind was to blow, it
would tip over as sartin as the world"
"Oh no, madam, nothing easier in the
world than to keepit from tipping over
you've only to keep right in the middle of
the boat, and it can't tip over, more than
church." ms.r .a Hsr...I. ..
"Do tell!--well Pm glad you told me;
butyou must make it 60 slow where Pm on,
for if it gets to tippin, shall certainly jump
off,"
"rhats against the rules of the boat
madam" ..... efs ...
"Weil, now, that's too bad, tho s'pose
it's for the best"
"To be sure tits; it's very unsafe trav-
cling with damp feet"
And so the dear old woman went OIL board
the crack steamboat 'Hio, and the blue and
white trunk and the old fashioned rocking
chair, and the curly tailed dog; and the sun
shone bright, and she paid her fare, and
took out u real knitting work and rocked
herself into dream of solid happiness to the
quiet swapping of the needles.
But storms will arise, and they did arise on
this occasion. The wind blew, the water
flew, the boat tumbled and groaned like
porpoise in a fit of the cholic, and the white
wave tops seemed to dash themselves into
the sky, on all sides of small circle, OF
which the 'Hio formed the center.
Our old friend was in trouble; her fare
wouldn't stay settled, and the balance ap-
peared against her. any way she could cast
it up, and SO she determined to leave the
concern as soon as possible.
The boat was in the midst of the lake, but
the passenger had made up her mind to
leave it, and she called upon that most
complaisant ofall personages--the captain.
"Captain, can't ye run her on shore, and
let me git out!' gs i7--,f.fli5
ooh, no, we can't afford TO do that"
"Well, wont you let me go In the little
boat" '.p h
"Keep cool, mother, we can't spare the
little boat just now." t4
"Then l'll jump off for I'm determined
not To stay here and be tipped over and
drownedp' ;t9aa EgIj ~ pow
You mustn't do that: if you do well
keep your dog and rocking chair" ,
0, deary me, what shall | do; if | ever
But the dear old lady came to her jour
uey's end before she was aware of it. Att
the time we speak Of, boats seldom went in
to the harbor at Erie, but ran up and landed
their passengers at the government pier at
the mouth of the bay. The 'IIio made the
pier at midnight and the night was ptchy
dark. Although not at her journeys end
The frightened passenger determined to
cave the boat. The trlns, the rocking
chair and oil were carried to- the pier and
she followed The nightw dark and she
knew not where she was. but she was hap
oy, for she was ashore. "Thank God"
,rjedithe old ladv. ATM ON land npain.n fAi