Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-11-03

three girls in pursuit. We both ran. He
was armed. He carried his boomerang
with him. He fired it at me. | lodged,
and the boomerang flew back and Drained
him on the spot, and there were precisely
three more beautiful orphans in Dutch Gu
lana than there were when i came.
l slipped on board of an American ves-
sci, and we got along well enough until a
series of storms set in, and we were blown
out of our course. The ship then sprang a
leak, and foundersd with all on board but
me. | clung to spar and was washed on
shore, after ride of three days Ger the wa
ters of the deep blue sea. -
didn't know where l was; probably III
some strange land or other. L looked
around. There was hut about mile on.
/ made for it. 1t contained one man.
Hes another blasted foreigner" said
to myself there is no use of trying to talk
to him"
WANTED something to eat, so / opened
nv mouth wide, and pointed into 1t, and
said, 'sAw--aw-aw -aw
The man was evidently surprised. He
appeared to think | must have swallowed
something or other, so he caught me by
the laws and held them apart, while he
looked down my throat. - :.
He seemed disappointed that he didn't
see anything. 80,
"Aw-awoaw-ough y l grunted, still
pointing in my mouth
II seemed to occur to him that had the
toothache, for he went out and got mon
key-wrencb, pair OF pincers, and cross
cut saw.
"Um-um-um m-um-um-um SAID L,
in despair, rubbing my stomach.
His face lit up with the idea that L had
the cramp collie, and he commenced exert
ing himself TO spread mustard plaster. /
shocked my head and rubbed nv stomach
and grunted:
"Ow-ow-ow-ow."
At last he thought he had it must be
poisoned; so he tried to improyise a
stomach pump out of two eel skins and
syringe"
s.Aw-aw-aw-aw groaned ], in de-
spair, pointing to my mouth, and drawing
a line down to my abdomen.
The thought suggested itself to him that
wanted him to rip me up, so he got out a
butcher knife and began sharpening 1t on
his boot.
He was the most accommodating man /
eSer saw, that fellow.
Then, as a last resort, began to clip my
teeth together ss if ] was chewing some
thing. He instantly jumped to the conclu-
sion that | had been bitten by dog and
had hydrophobia. So he first took buck
ct of water out of the room, and then be-
gan to feel my leg.
20, ,pshawi" said I, forgetting myself, 81
want something TO eat"
swell, why in the mischief didn't you
say SO them" said he. "What are YOU
standing there gibbering like some degrad-
ed idiot for?'
s.Why, thought you couldn't understand
English; thonght you were foreigner,
said I
And took you for wandering men,
ber of the deaf and dumb asylum"
deaf and dumb asylum e said j; "of
what placer"
"Why, of New Jersey, of course.
'.Is this New Jersey, them / asked
.'You can Just bet il il Listen there's
the whistle Of the Camden and Aboy rail-
road company.
sat down and cried like baby when |
remembered the number OF times ! had
dead-headed on that very line in days OF
yore days. may say, that were now min
eled with the irrevoeable Past.
Take a clam said the man, rousing
me mo fiom my reverie.
took a clam, took ''sniiter," | took all
the eatables and Il, rnkables in the place.
and then Walked 20 the depot and came
home, just on the very day. you recolleet,
my wife was going 70 be married to another
man, and now wish I'd stayed away and
him