Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-03-26

what are you looking around here
for, say?'
'.Nsin, says he.
That makes eighteen, saysI.
'.Nein,' says he.
'Twenty-seven,' says I. Go on; I'll
add it up for you. Pm a alightning calcu-
lator, / am
'yNein.'
'Thirty-six,I Il said. You appear to be
regular original old fine rine. What
club do you belong to, anyway?'
'.Nein,' says he, still shaking his head.
'Forty-f-' Just then it flashed ac-
ross my mind that he was a Dutchman.
Beer says /, to try him.
l had touched sympathetic cord in
his nature.
%! yaw!' says he. 'Ha! ha- das is
goot o, yaw' and we rushed into each
others arms aud wept.
/ felt that had found friend.
1 sincerely wished he had been my
long lost brother, whith the regular thing
in the strawberry marks on his arm, only
/ never had brother, and be was never
long lost, and never had anything on his
arm.
But this German was a good fellow.
He lived in Dutch Guiana, and had a
wife and three pretty daughters, who
were so precisely alike that could neV-
er tell one from the other. fell in love
with one of them; never could tell
which, so courted them all three, just
as they happened to come along. One
day they all came in together. l tried
to be sweet on the one thought was
the right girl, and the other two got so
mad that was afraid they'd burst some
blood vessel or other. Then all three
of them said had promised to marry
them, and all three of them repeated
the fond words had whispered to them,
and accused me of treachery.
Itlooked blue for me. There was entire.
ly too much of Loves chldings for comfort.
then offered to marry them all three,
and to take them to Salt Lake; or to cut
myself in three pieces; or to drown my
self with them and perish in four watery
graves.
Respectfully but firmly declined.
Then they all went out. After a bit
one come in and said:
'Abiiah, dear, let US elope together
and leave these horrid woman, and 60 to
some sunny cline, where we can be hap
py in the fullness of each others love.
i will think it over, my angel -
She passed out. Then one of them
came in again.
'Abijah, dear, let US fly together, and
leave these horred women, and go tC
some sunny cline, where we can be hap
py in the fullness of each others love.
i say l will think over it, my OWL
angel
And she disappeared. But she seem
ed anxious, and so in she comes again
'Abijah, dear, let US fly togather, and
leave these horrid women, and go tC
some sunny cline, where we can be hap
py in the fullness of each others love.
Look here, now, you've said that
three times, and that's enough. My
mind fully grasps the idea. l say III
think it over
why, l never said it BEFORE says
she.
The mischief you didn't says I.
Upon my sacred word and honor; I'll
cross my breath to it, says she.
/ saw 1t all. They had all three oi
them tackled me with the same PROPOSE.
ton. 1t was clear that l must fly.
had made up my mind to take the frs
boat that left Dutch Guiana for any.
where.
l left the house, and hadn't gone more
then a square when saw the parent OF
the three girls in pursuit. We both ran
He was armed. He carried his boom.
erang with him. He fred it at me, dodg'
ed, and the boomerang few back and
Drained him on the spot, and there were
precisely three more beautiful orphans
In Dutch Guiana than when l came.
shipped on board of an American
vessel, and we got along we'll enough
until q series of storms set in, and we
were blown out of our course. The ship
then sprang leak, and foundered with
all on board except me, who clung to a
spar and was washed on shore, after q
ride of three days Ger the dark waters
of the deep blue sea.
didn't know where 1 was, probably
in some strange land or other. I looked
around. There was hut about a mile
off. ] made for 1t. Il contained one
man.
He's another blasted foreigner said
to myself; there's no use of trying t.
talk to him.
wanted something to eat, so ! opened
my mouth wide, and pointed into it, anc
SAID, 'AW-aw-aW-awp
The man was evidently surprised. HI
appeared to think had swallowed some
thing or other, so he caught me by the
jaws and held them apart, while he look
ed down my throat.
He seemed disappointed that he didn'
see anything.
'Aw-aw-aw-oughp / grunted, still
pointing in my mouth.
1t seemed to occur 70 him that / bad
got the toothaCh, for he went out anC
got monkey wrench. pair Of pinceri
and a cross.cut saw.
; observation-disclosures SAID
I, in dispair, rubbing my stomach.
!, His face liz up with the idea that
, had the cramp-colic, and be commenced
exerting himself 20 spread q mustard