Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-09-18
MARX TWAINIsNs.

MARX 1NAlNlSIS.
Marx met With aa adventure recent
at Niagara Falls. Crossing to the Can;
da side, he songat the camp Of the Re
Men who manufacture bead bags so
moccasias for visitors, and aade them
speech, in which sene remarks npo
their costume, and their habit of arlokin.
short dudheees, appear to have been mis-
construed, and ordinations bgoke forti
Of
"Down wid him 7"
Scoop the blagyard {"
"Hang him I"
Burn him r
!" Dnrownd him =
1t was the quickest operation that eve,
was. 1 simply saw 10 the air a sudden
sissh Of clubs, brickbats, fists, bead bas-
kets, noccassns-a single Fash. aad they
all appeared to hit me at ouce, and no
Two OF them in the sarae place. 10 the
next instant The entire tribe was rpon me.
They tore all the clothes of me, they
broke my arms and legs. they gave me a
taump that dented the top Of nay head
TIL it would hold coffee Ike a saucer !:
and to crown their disgracetui proceed
ings aud to add Insult 10 injury. they
threw me over the Horseshoe Fall snd
got wet.
About ninety or q hundred feet from
The top, the remains of my vest caught on
2 projecting rock, and | was almost,
drowned before [ could get loose. | Es
ally fell, and brought mp il a world oil
white foam at the foot of the Fall. whose
celled and bubbis masses lowered %
several Inches above nv bead OF %cours4
1 got into the eddy. I sailed round and
round IN il fOrty.four time~s-chasing a
chip and gaining on it-each round trip
a halt a mile -reaehing for the same bush
on the bank forty four times. and lust ex
actly missing it by a hairs breadth every
time. At last q man walked down and
sat down close to thai bush, and put a
pipe IN bis mouth, and lit a match, and
allowed me with one eye and kent the
other on the match while be sheltered it
IN his hands from the wind. Presently a
puff of wind blew it out. The next timei,
| swept around he said
"Got a match ~ :
"fes-in my other vest. Help me ,
Not for joe" I
when | came tourd again. I said
Excuse me seemingly impsrtinent {
curiosity Of a drowning man. but will Won 4
'Sp'aIo this singular conduct of vours % I
with pleasure. | am the Coroner.
'onthurry on my account. can wait a
OF you. But | wish had a matcb.n
isa'd Fake my place and I'll go and r
ret you one" f
he declined. This lack of confidence !,
ID DIS part created q cooiuess between as Il
'ud from that time forward | avoided him a
{ was my idea, ID case anything han G
'enao TO me, to SO time the occurrence as II
0 throw my custom into the hands of e
DC opposition coroner over on the Amer. V
size. At last a policeman came n
long and arrested lae for disturbing the Il
eace oy yelling at people on shore for Al
e'p. The Judge fined me. but | had the
dVantage Of him. Ny money was with
y pantaioons, and my pantaloons were 81
18th the Indians.
inus | escaped. am DOW living il a ,
cry critical condition. At lea t am
ing any way-cstical or not critical
! am hurt all over, but | cannot tell the
~ extent yet, because The doctor is no, +
me taking the inventory. He will make. Sa
u my manifest this evening However. al
us Tar be thinks only six Of my wounds a.
e fatal. don's mind The others. in
opon gaming my right mind, | said 10
is sn awfuily savage tribe of Indians WI
at do the bead work and moccasins for hi
agara Falls, doctor. Where are thew Ut
IN p 6 4
" Limerick, my SON." Il
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