The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-01-20
Targle and his Owl.

IaIgle and his Owl.
Many of our readers have seen that huge
owl. that short time ago, gave character
and dignity to the assembled multitudes,
at Chris. koebke's His noble larse eyes,
and general erect department, had made
him many admirers. But one night, just
before New Years, he disappeared, and his
friends had thought that he never would
be heard of more No one once thought
that the inieligen; bird had scented Tangel,
and would break away and fly to the pal,
pitating bosom of the Great Snowman:
but the following trcm the pen of Tangel
himself, which we find in Tie Daily Wis
consin, tells the tail of the bird.
TO THE EDITOR EVENING WISCONSIN.
Milwaukee, Jan. 5, 1870.
1t there is anything calculated to make
man mad, IT S Il practical joke, aud it there
Is any man who can be made practically
mad By one, IL : the subscriber had Just
arrived by the $3.50 p. IN. train, full of pork
and beans, rural felicity and fried onl rs
In fact, fully as corpuent with coatent
ment as police fed dog, i'll August, when
my partner, who is little Green Tor he
wouldn have paid the express charges),
SAID TO me ''Tangel, there New Year
preseLt tor you down stairs it camo from
Ahnapee tWolt River is the modest name);
l don know what you are going TO do with
1t; its alive and thereby hangs a tail
tHe ain MUCH ef 4 fioni55e iHoSnii5er Of, HgrjRe h4en
turn, after SO long an absence, (triday,
1862 during which time, as my visit Was
at country postUiilce, where had got
almost crazy by reading unfinished tales
from the Ledger, which are gratuitousiy
distributed about the holidays, you can i'm
aaine the romanticDess OF my natural en-
guIry:
You don't say SO, George? And while
your Imagination is ''on tap," draw on it
for the grins and attempted equiyocatious
which are fas, becoming one OF our national
features
Lies are foot deeper than the uutrod
den snow
Jokes and sells are worth more cowslip
full than wheat centum.
While courage, brave, manly courage, de
ties the microscope and fine tooth comb to
find it out. THIS is theatrical style, You
know got it from Chicago drummer
But when did hero OF Falling Waters
ever quaver?
Wha, dark and cammy cellar conld be
filed with any untold animal, of whatever
nature. from gopher 70 a hyena, that
WGuid pale the cheek of one who left the
army on account Of an arbltary order te
bury all he killed?
Aye, what?
lSECOND PART
Calmly divesting myself of pair Of
horse blanket wrIstlets-a present from my
halr-llpped true love. last Christmas-an
overcoat | owe Burr for, and with firm
hold of the little faith left in tallow can
die long ago counted aus Ike spielt, and
amid the bleathiess suspcnce of an admir-
ing audience
| Hutnamed in.
Basement stairs are never long, only to a
cook, and heated imagination. Nothing
allied NE. But reminlscepce, memory a
faint recollection of Lew Benedict's min
streis having been here once, ghost Of
some clog dancers inspiration, seized the
heel OF my boots, mot mel about three
steps trcm tie bottom of the st;.irs Ii
you have ever been there, you know there s
an opening at The right.
Through it the cold chilly winds of doz
en- Novembers froze the dew drops on my
lily white forehead, as the sepulchrsl tread
OF the busy throng echoed through the
doomed darkness, tramping, alas, alas, for
theatre.
But it was no time for reflection. Let
the uetropolitans surge, like the mariner
with but one plank between him and death.
l-l-have only time to ventiiate my nasal
organ, and the green monsters fiery eyes
are giariDg upon me as though there was
no charge for the meter
Horror of horrors-lig ghtening my suS-
penders, with the given courage and stride
of a martyr to Thanksgiving dinner, |
approach the cage.
The fastecings are the hest of lath. He
Is in Bonnell dry>goods box. lose on
my accident policy and have won an Owl.
tie Is buster too; beats Sam Ryan 5
that was at the Soldiers Home Fair. The
J0kers came down and laughed, and one
reckless feIler tore off a la,h and threatened
TO wallop me if | didn't patronize Best.
The Owl got out and so did we. Since
then he has Bit my oyster pedlsr's rose
clear up lGto hi ea,arrh while bringing up
can OF ID. L G.. for lazy from the Sew
enth ward. Now what want to know is
what you charge for advertising owls for
sale. The Police say ii amt the kind of
owls they are paid for caging. In tact the
owl is Sheriff, for he has closed Us up. He
is a successful JEFF Davis Now what 5
the use of such a joke. Couldn't Mat. or
Jim or Ed lust as we'll said don't get
'owly' ali you young men.this New Year. I"
What do they want TO break up a poor
fellow business for: I never asked them