The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-12-02

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Then another straw was put in, and
caught hold Of it, and saw that it came
through the bung hole, and there was a
man outside trying 10 suck something or
! other through that straw, and every time
gave her jerk it jammed his old nose
bat against the slaves. So | gave her
one more pull, and then kicking the head
out of the cask, got out and said to this
| fellow
Look a here, what in the derce are
! you trying to do, anyhow i"
Man." says lie, shaking his head
''What are you fooling around here for,
say %
s ''Neul," says he.
That makes eighteen" says I.
"Nm," says he.
Twenty seven" says l. $50 on !;
I'll add it up for you. I'm hghtning
calculator, am
! ''Nr,n"
Thirty six" / said ''You appear to
be a regular original old first nine. What
club do you belong 10 anyway :"
''Nein,' says he, still shaking his head
! "Forty-f-." Just then it flashed
across my mind that he was a Dutch
man.
Beer" says I, to try him.
had touched sympathetic chord in
! his nature.
"Oh! yaw Jaw - says he. ''Ha /!
! ha dat is goot! o, yaw," and we rush
! ed into each others arms and wept.
felt then | had found a friend.
| sincerely wished he had been my long
! lost brother, with the regular thing iii
strawberry marks on his arm, only | new
! er had brother, and he was never long
lost, aud never had anything on his arm,
But this German was good fellow
| He lived in Dutch Guiana, and had a
! wife, and three pretty daughters who were
SO precisely alike that | never could tell
| one from the other. / fell in love with
! one of them never could tell which, so
| courtcd them all three, just as they hap
| Uened to come along.
One day they all came in together. l
! tried 10 be sweet with the one l thought
! was the right girl, and the other two got
| 80 mad that | was afraid they'd burst
! some blood vessel or other. Then all
three said had promised to marry them,
aud all Ghree of them repeated the fond
words ] had whispered to them, and ac
cussd me of tTeachery.
Ii looked stormy for me. There was
entirely too much loves chidings for com
fort | then offered to marry them all
three, and to take them to Salt Lake or
TO cut myself in three pieces or 10 drown
myself with them and perish in four wa
terry graves.
Respectfully but firmly declined.
Then they all went out. After biz
one came in and said:
"Abijah, dear, let US elope together,
and leave these Eorrid women, and 90 10
sUme sunny clime, where we can be hap
py in the iuIlness Of each others love-
Il will think it over, my angel, I" said l.
She passed out. Then one of them
came in again.
"Abijah, dear, let us fly together, and
leave these hurrld women, and 60 to some
sunny CLINE, where we can be happy in
the iulluess OF each others love-
81 say l will think it over, my own
angel"
And she disappeared But she seemed
anxious, SO in she comes again.
''Abjsh, dear, let US fly together, and
leave these hurr, d women, and 60 to some
sunny cline, where we can be happy IN
the tuiIuess Of each others S love-"
"Look here, now, you've said that three
times, and that's enough. My mi,.d fully
grasps the idea say I'll think it over"
"Why, l never said it before says
she.
''The mischief you didn't" says l.
Upon my sacred word and honor
I'll cross my breath to it," says she.
L saw it all. They had all three of
them tackled me with the same proposi>
tion. 1t was clear that l must fly. l
made up my mind TO take the very first
boat that left Dutch Guiana for any
where.
| left the house. and hadn't gone more
than square when | saw the parent OF
the three girls in pursuit We both ran.
He was armed He carried his boomer
eng with him He fired it at me. l
lodged, and the boomerang flew back and
Drained him on the spot, and there were
precisely three more beautiful orphans III
Dutch Guiana than there were when l
came.
/ slipped on board of an American
vessel, and we got along well enough
until series of storms set III, and we
were blown out of our course. The ship
then sprang leak, and toundered with
all on board but me. l chung TO spar
and was washed on shore, after ride of
three days DER the waters of the deep blue
sea.
| didn't know where was probably
in some strange land or other. l looked
around. There was hui about mile
off, | made for it. 1t contained one
man.
Hes another blasted foreigner" said
| I tn tnuseIf. t1ihnrn Is no use of trying to