Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-30

off my tail for your breakfast
Take a bit of it, then,' says Phelim,
showing piece into his mouth, sure and
It does not matter much at which end you
have it, and may be you will think that
enough to contint We till dinner time"
ssThe sarpint evidently thought as Phe-
lin did, that he had had about enough, and
he said no more but logged along until
noon. when the sun was blazing hot, and
says. saws he to Phelim, Bedad, it'sme-
self that's kilt entirely, sure I'm half
broiled wild the hate"
sAnd many thanks to We for the infor
nation says Phelim. 'Tve been waitin'
to hear that same for the last two hours,
and now, honey, suppose we take another
snack together; our breakfast was mighty
good
'Oh! by no manner of names at all, at
ALL says the sarpint.. THE last bit went
against my stomach intirely.'" -.
we've mighty dainty stomach O yer
own thin,' says Phelim, but may the
ould boy take me if feel inclined to be so
, particular. Here goes for another cut, and
! if We cry shares its all right we know. l
don't wish to chate We out Nv yer males
any Way ae -.
"The craythur hung down his head. He
saw that Phelim had the best of the ar
| gymint, and tried a little chaypening. He
| began to talk to Phelim about the wonders
of the mighty deep, and the piles of gould
and silver that, lay at the bottom OF the
ocean, and the lots of diamonds and pearls
that were there that could be picked up
only for the reaching, and he pleaded
| mighty hard with Phelim to let him go
down just to get bit of fresh air, as the
sarpint expressed it; but it was all no go.
| Phelim had learned thing or two. He
had kissed the real stone, AMI wandered
| all along the groves of Blarney that are Sc
charming, and he could not be induced to
| let the sarpint go down, not even for a
| minute, but he insisted on the original of
fer to the craythur, that they should take
another steak together Whereat the sar-
pint was mighty wrathy. Pheiim, howey-
er, had got the upper hand of him. He
took out his knife and cut off another big
chunk, touching the monster to the quick,
| who bowed and reared and spit blood and
lashed the waves with his tail till the
people on. board the ships in sight took
| with a big volcano down in the boiler
room But all couldn't do to get Phelim
off the back of him. He breakfasted
dined and supped off the sarpint's tail fol
five days, and by dint of placing his knife
in the craythur now and then he. kept him
going in the way that he wanted him te
without compasses, the only needle that
he had being the drop of whiskey with
which every now and then he wetted his
eye, and when he got to the shore where
his friends lived the monster begged hard
for his life, but it was no go. Phelim says
to him, says he, Il have had trouble
enough with yez, and 1 will take good
care that nobody else is made fool of the
same way and SO with the assistance of his
friend he cut off his head, which he put in
to museum at Philadelphia, and he left the
body to dry upon the sands of the shore
till the gravy was all boiled out of him,
and then sent the skeleton the Smithsoni-
an Institute, where, it smelled so bad that
they sent it down to Alabama where, after
lying for o few years, it was dug up by
| Prof. Kock and sent to the museum in ST
Louis, from which place, they do say, il
was intended to send it Chicago as soon as
that place should grow big enough to hole
|