Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-03-20


Not very long" swell" sez he, "Ive
been to work all this forenoon and haven't
got one course laid yet" "Well," sez /,
you're lazy fellow, that's all I've got
to say" So after dinner / went down to
see what he'd been about, and I'll be
thundered if he hadn't shingled more
than a hundred feet right out onto the
fogl"
The second will be of very rich farm,
concerning which the narrator says 81
went over last summer with two friends,
and Jones took us ON four acre lot he
had just prepared for planting. We all
went to the centre of the lot, and lie there
made single hill, and showed us Gu
cumber seed. . Now, boys" said he,
"when l put this seed into the ground
you must run for the fence and get out
as soon as quick as you can" No sooner
had he dropped the seed than he and the
others started off as if bull dog had
| ucch lltcI tiiciu. was 81 SUI piiScu lhab
forgot the warning until / saw vine
pushing up from the ground and making
for me. Then ran as if for dear life,
but before / got to the fence the vine
caught me and began to wind around me
like a snake. was very much alarmed;
and put my hand to my pocket for my
jack knife with which to cut myself
loose but to my horror l could not get
it in on account of cucumber which
hung there and which was growing like
blazes."
A Cincinnati paper indulged its cred
ulous readers some time ago with the fol-
lowing item: As gentleman was 60
ing along Fifth street, he passed place
where some boys were playing marbles.
One of them, in shooting his marble,
cleverly put it under the gentleman's
foot. The gentleman slipped and stum-
bled against lady, also passing, precip-
itating her along with himself upon
large dog. The dog, frightened out of
its propriety, bolted off, and ran between
the legs of another gentleman, who in
falling, drew the string of kite from the
hands of a boy. The kite of course fell,
and in falling frightened a span of horses
attached to wagon in an alley near by.
! The horses ran down the alley. A man
who was building fire in carpenters
shop by which they passed, started up to
see what was the matter, and in doing so
dropped hi lighted match among the
shavings. A fire was the consequence.
Tho onginos asso,.,LIod, and, in tiIo huprs,
consequent upon the alarm, man fell
in the track of one of them and had his
arm broken. Is the boy who shot the
marble responsible for all the consequent
damages?"
The train of circumstances here related
reminds one of the story of the French
man who attempted to commit suicide.
He was determined not to be thwarted
in his purpose, so he provided himself
with ladder, rope, pistol, a box OF
matches and a vial of poison, and went
a little before high tide to post set up
in the edge of the sea. Ascending the
, ladder, he tied one end of the rope to the
post and the other around his neck; then
he took the poison, set his clothes ON fire,
put the muzzle of his pistol to his ear and
kicked away the ladder. In kicking
down the ladder he sloped the pistol Sc
| that the ball missed his head and cut
through the rope by which he was sus-
pended he fell into the sea, thus extin.
, gushing the flames of his clothes, the sea
water which he involuntarily swallowed
counteracted the poison, and the tide
washed him ON shore high and dry, SC
: that, despite his precautions, he remained
E unhanged, unshot, imprisoned, unburnet
E and undrowned.
t The next story shall be of very large
: tree in the state of California. A mar
e went to the woods, to cut it down. HI
4 had been chopping about ten days whel
q he thought he would take walk abou
: the tree, just to see how much he had t,
v cut; what was his surprise, when he go
: on the other side, to find another MAJ
cutting on the same tree. 81 say" saiC
= the Californian, chow long have yor
a been cutting?" "Just three weeks,
: said the stranger. The tree was SO bi,
J. round that they had not heard the sount
a of each others axes.
IS Finally, we may mention the adven
;. ture of sailor boy, who, for some mis-
|, chievous freak, was headed up in water
IS casl, with only the bung hole to breath
y through. The following night squal
t, came up, and the ship went down witt
IS all ON board, except himself in the cask
), Fortunately it kept bung up" and al
ter thirty hours floating about, he wa
h cast on the shore, where, after makin
o many unsuccessful efforts to release him