Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-04-26
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tines over twenty miles an hour, when my
boat run aground on one o them sai.. .... +,
and therr siaid for morn a week | WIS
out huntin' one day. jest for amusement. aud
freed one OF the oriullest bars ever raised in
ArkansaN! | saved him alter hard fight.
sot IN sboard aud tied him TO a big cal e.-
| hat old fiIidle aboard, aud was givin' i'm
les>"ns III dancin' day or two afterwards,
when ! looked up the drink, aud saw"
Nhat?' chImed several voices, "Saw
what?"
- The tust sieem boat that ever flultercd
wheel on the Massippi! And if you'll believe
me-"
why. sirslI believe she was drivin every
hsh and alligator in the river before her NV
bar Jumped overheard. and was near folerin
as me Stem iixin rid by me; just then some
INN lerked my fiat plum luse from the island
ahd sne look lite arter the steem crttef as fast
as the mater oil the occasion would let Ter -
! wen, sirs we soon cotch her and Ter hour
or two, we had intereslinly-the steamboat
was blnl and the fat!--don't mention it! She
darted before as easy as the wind, and the
way the crit.er pulled and bowed after us,
wasn't last enough TO ketch up What was
the matter with my craft. didn't know -
She was rlIin like dancin fether and ihrowin
the water from one bank to the other. | be-
gun TO get skecred, but KNOWN could cut the
! table aiore she could run TO the Gull of MeIi-
CO. mort Ia let her rip! | jest sot back,
tuned my fiddle, and played TO kill time. 1t
was the purtyest weather 10 the world. and
, enjoyed II amazingly. The breezes stretch
ed my colors butilully, and the moon would
peep down once In while to see what was
dHvln al! was alone, but had no use for
/ company. The fiat was now turning the most
dangerous bend III all the river, whar knowd
she d be apt 10 run agin one o the free and
independant snags, aud sure enuif-"
! ''She did" exclaimed several OF the listen
ers.
And sure enuif. afore had time to say
Jack Robinson, or draw my bow across my
hddle, lsaw one snag and another just below
II, and
''She busted herself egin emf" said one or
Two.
When she got EN-" continued Jim, "they
wasn't thar; found EN- aboud as fur ahead
as they was when lust seed 'em In the
8 mornin looked out and thar they was just
as lar apart splitter the water like lgh-
tum pole. "What was lhey?" | asked my
sell; but it's no use; that evenn my boat was
plotted TO Orleans, and she ran up TO the leve
hanesomely bein only few hours out from
The sand bar, and beat up the steem boat a
day aud half; and now; gentleman, all said
alter this beautiful instance of my myste-
nonsy out running s,eamboat--what po-
wer do you suppose carried ii aong?"
The tide, forced by the fish aud allyga-
tors, said knowing Jake.
Murder said Jim take down your sign.
"A sudden rise, them" .oared another.
Some guessed one thing, some another
aud so on, until jim, recovering his strength,
Tor he was feeble, rose TO his lull height, and
said
"Gentleman, you may think as you please,
but II was nothing else but that bar that was
tied to the cable!"
.Mr. Higgins. have you got the papers,"
Yes, sir, but I've left 'em in my pocket book
at home. It's rue. every word OF it,; for jest
as soon as the bar jumped overheard, thur
denng big cat fish took after EN-. and then
they had it from thar 10 Odeans-the bar hea
TIN i'm about six ieet and hall! didn't
know how fast the bar pulled the boat but
The fish swum 50 fast that he jumped fifty
seven feet out on the level, and didn't stop
topping his tail fora month. - Tennessee
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