Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03

three girls in pursuit. We both ran. He
was armed He carried his boomerang
with him. He fred it at me. [ lodged,
and the boomerang few back and Drained
him on the spot, and there were precisely
three more beautiful orphans in Dutch GU
lana than there were when [ came.
l slipped on board of an American yes
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 spfang q
leak, and foundered with all on board but
me. l clung to spar and was washed on
shore, after a ride of three days DER the wa
ters of the deep blue sea.
L didn't know where [ was; probably in
some strange land or other I looked
around. There was hut about a mile off
l made for it. 1t contained one man.
''He's another blasted foreigner" said
to myself; "there is no use of trying to talk
to him."
wanted something to eat, SO l opened
my mouth wide, and pointed into it, and
said, ''Aw-aW-aw -aw T.
The man WAS evidently surprised. He
appeared to think | must have swallowed
something or other, so he caught me by
the jaws and held them apart, " lille he
looked down my throat. @
He seemed disappointed that he didn't
see anything. s=a s-.t. F.
.:Aw-aw aw- ough p 1 grunted, still
pointing i'll my mouth. 49,.
It seemed to occur to him that hnd the
toothache, for he went out and got a mon
key-wrench, pair of pincers, and q cross
cut saw.
''Um-um -um -um-um p said I,
in despair, rubbing my stomach. -@
II g. 4. l. Il T
the cramp colic, and he commenced exert
ing himself to spread a mustard plaster. L
shocked my head and rubbed my stomach
and grunted:
tOW-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"
''Aw-aw-aw p groaned I, 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
butcher knife and began sharpening it on
his boot
He was the most accommodating man /
ever saw, that fellow.
Then, as last resort, I began to clip my
teeth together as if l was chewing some
thing. He instantly jumped to the conclu-
sion that [ had been bitten by q dog and
had hydrophobia. So he first took buck
ct of water out of the room, and then be-
gan to feel my leg. r
SO, pshaw" said I, forgetting myself, Il
want something to eat. p"
''Well, why in the mischief didn't you
say SO then ?" said he. ''What are you
standing there gibbering like some degrad-
ed idiot for?"
''Why, Thought you couldn't understand
thonght you were foreigner, "
said l.
'tAnd 1 took you for wandering mem
Der of the deaf and dumb asylum"
deaf and dumb asylum! !'' said 1; ''of
what place?"
"Why, of New Jersey, of course. "
els this New Jersey, them" asked.
''You can just bet it is Listen there's
the whistle of the Camden and Aboy rail-
road company.
l sat down and cried like baby when 1
the number of times I had
dead-headed on that very line in days OF
yore days, may say, that were now min
gled with the irrevocable Past. i1
"Take CLAMP said the man, rousing
me me from my reverie.
[ took a clam, took a ''snifter," I took all
the eatables and dlinkables in the place,
and then 1 walked to the depot and came
home, just on the very day, you recollect
my wife was going to be married to another
man, and now L wish I'd stayed away and
let him. i