The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-22

office. I decided to risk it, and CAV,
directions to my wife not TO go into thu
yard, aud to allow no one in it.
That very morning little Sally hat
"Papa, if Cousin Mary Jane had see,
the funny old Chilly tumble you down
she would have laughed to split"
! / knew it well, and was inwardly
thankful that she b ad not been present
But must now relate what happened
this last day, which / had from Mary
Jane herself: -t-s.
Coming down from her secluded
home, she was naturally DESTROYS tt
know all possible facts and gossip o
the village, and she always came TO my
house. She came this day, and Learned
from Ann that I was away, but would
be back soon, and that Julia had lair
down for a little nap. So finding the
parlor-door locked, she concluded Il
sit down and rest and wait in the din
ing-room, which opened upon the yard
\ It being warm day she sat by the win
dow, and partly opened one of the
blinds she was In very quiet state
when suddenly she was startled by
hearing " Boo-6oo 2" sound in her ears.
She was about to scream, when see
ing colored gentleman dressed in mil
itary clothes standing in the window,
she deststed, feeling that It would moi
be polite.
Mary Jane, may say, is remarkable
for two things: tiEst, a lively sympathy
or appreciation OF the male sex sec
ond, a propensity for new and pleasing
bonnets. This day she wore, as she
told me, new straw. which she had
trimmed herself with fascinating flow
ers-"a perfect love"-and 1t Is reason
able to suppose that she had vague
intention OF letting Julia see how much
nf q GtlnUnD 4 than the
one she had trimmed.
Well, recovering herself she smiled
and courtesied: for, she saidIit popped
into her head that this was probably a
colonel of one of the negro regiments,
who happened to be at my house. She
was instinetively polite. So was nay
Gorilla. He, too bowed and smiled
and thus a sort of entente eordinLe was
established. She at once set herself to
making it pleasant for the stranger,
and remarked, sweetly:
"1t is n delightful afternoon for
walk"
ITO which he said, "Pooh-pooh ,"
She knew that he was a foreigner, fol-
foreigners aIways pooh-pooh every
country but their own. This did moi
diminish her desire to please him, and
she said various other things, such as
81 hope You enjoy our country, Sir
To which he replied as before, Pooh
poOhI"
Mary Jane wondered il he were not a
black EngIishman, but she did not al
| low his manners 10 effect hers; and feel
ing that he was n stranger and lonely
she proposed to show him the village
to which he assented, but said, "Booh-
booh!"
She perceived that he could under
stand better than he could speak our
language.
They walked out together, and as
they went through the hall she handed
him my goId-headed cane, which, hav'
ing been presented me by AIR. Greeley,
valued highly. She took him through
our beautifully shaded trees, showed
| him our churches and school houses,
and many pretty places, and then she
| walked on toward tho foot ofthe noun
tain, determined to show him our mos
beautiful places last. Entering thu
| picturesque grounds of MIR. Heckshel
she noticed that he was much interest
ed in the lovely swans for which he has
walking straight into the pond aftel
them. She grasped his arm and arrest
| ed him.
1t produced n curious effect. He
wrinklcd his brows and glared Mt heI
SO thai she was startled. Suddenly
eyiug her watch, which she wore at hel
| belt, he snatched IL from her. Then
/
be, probably was, a pickpocket in dis
guise, who had got into my house fol
burglarious purposes. What was she
to do? She tried hattery and sweet
ness.
"You admire my watch? Yes it is
friend-pray handle it carefully"
She held out her hand for it. Instead
of giving it to her he clasped her hand
| in his, and snatching her new straw
flowers, waterfall and all-frOm hel
head he devOured them before her face
Then emitting his booming roar he
rushed up the mountain, whirling my
| gold -headed Greedy cane about his
head.
Mary Jane was apprehended
rushing wildly through the streets
of Orange, partially denuded ol
clothes and wholly of hair; and
when told that it was quite improper
.'P0oh-PoOh Pooh.pooh!" 1t was some
| days before she received her usual SEN
ses so as to talk her usual flow.
OF course was aghast upon my re-
turn. My interesting experiments had
come to an untimely end. For time
1 was in despair; but at last borrowed
old Simpsons dog and made an effort
to recover the Gorilla. The dog track
ed him for some distance, and L fol-
lowed. But the only vestige saw OF
him was an army button with
bit OF cloth attached, which
found on thorn-buh. 1 never
er saw the monster again. Barnum,
believe, set up a claim that he had him
but examination satisfies me that it is
an entire mistake.
No; have two evidences that he Is
still at large among the mountains west
of Orange: the one is, that on sultry
summer afternoons a dull, distant
booming roar may be heard there
which I know is his peculiar note, anG
Du Chaillu agrees with me; the othel
is, that the whisky of the charcoal bur
ners ofall that region disappears with
marvellous rapidly. They attribute Il
to evaporation, I know that my Gorilla
Is about.
As far as they go my experiments arr
most interesting and most valuable
and 1 venture to say that no man liv'
| ing has ever had the like. To enable
me to prosecHte9 them, and thus tC
prove the identity of man and Gorilla
a reward of five hundred dollars has
been made up by the chronological So
ciety for the apprehension and return
/ of my friend; to which here add
from my private purse, one of hv'
hundred dollars more, which will b'
paid upon the presentation to me of the
missing Gorilla.
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