The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-04-21

my head he come at me tull tlit The flst
L knowed had lodged back into the STUMP
/ agln and hal not more than touched atoIe
I | felt another ortul keen bite 10 my leg |
made rush to get cut agln, but the cuSs'
| ed internal bull drove ut me. and | wa,
/ obieeged to pop back asin. As squeezed
/ down inter the cid stump agla, | would
have bet barrel of rum that Sarer Ann
would be a widdor in less than ten hours
! Il tried to cipher out which would be
the most becoming for Christian, to be
! plzened to death Dy a great snalk, or have
my lnnarls siung TO the four winds by a
cussed Old bull. | thought of all the mar
/ tyrs-ot Amos billed in lie, E.izar smeared
with honey, and Joseph tempted by Potti-
/ fer wite-and thought that | ought to
! profit by their example, and grin and bear
/ 1t no matter bow much it went agin the
gTaln But then got an awful bite Or two,
and to save my life couidn' help sticking
up my head, aud the bull being on hand,
/ lie. Grive anl filled my eyes iuil OF dirt and
bark; SO down | tobbed agin tor snaiSs.
| now begun to get bites very often and in
/ bad places; the whizzng got louder and
| squrIued, twisted aud screeched at . fast
rate, and grabbing around ketched some
( thing and got bite IN the hand. | held
on to it, and teholdi it proved TO be moth
/ ing but q yaller jacket! When | found
/ that | Was not snak bit, | felt sumthing
/ lift off my stupmick like Tag Of shot.
/ Glory TO God. sez [. | may yet live to
: perfect the widder an2 the tatherles>l |
tell for mint as if dlln' keer for all the
/ yaler jackets between the old Missisa'p ppi
aud the Missouri, but the blessed Jerusha!
had not seen one th:rc whore [ seen a
thousand in another mint. The whole
holler in that stump got yaller with them
| could not stand it long in that way. |
tried to think OF some kind Of prayer suita>
bic to the occasion, and commenced:
Now | lay me down 70 sleep" bat by
! Jewdas, | could not pray for cusSing. L
jist swore, bail or no buiI, wur going to
emigratc from this particular spot; but
every time put my head above the stump,
the bull pitched at me, and hit the stamp
iast like mani. He looked awful fero
cioJs, with his eyes as green and blazing as
fire, and the foam dropping deown his
mouth. | was bohbing up and down SO
coutin ualiy that | wuz about half the time
out, ami at last teit the stump beginning
to give way under tbumpS OF the Old brln>
die hcathcn, aud snare my hair rlz
straight Oh end | made up nay nIind to
get out OF that, sOueh0Y. purity quick, bat
Just at the mint | made up my mind to
jump out and run, the old cuss came st
me, with head down and tail up, a. loco
motive speed, and as dropped down he
over the bank inter the creek, and after
me come the stump, bull and all, the tore
! feet of some Of them, or the bull, struck
me ri,bt on the back and knocked ale clean
/ over jn:o the bottom Of thr crck. " hen
4 / riz the fast thing | seed were the old tei-
| ler's tail, and as | could not swim / wade
! 4 grab for it, and made him tow me TO
shore. When | got there let 80, and run
one way, while the hull run TIC other and
that's the long ani short OF 1t.
THE PRoposED ARCTIC ExIEDwIov =
DR.. uays was before the House Committee
on appropriations, Oh the llth and gave
his views rs to the propriety IF i.ting out
du expedition to the Arctic regions at gov
ernmcnt expense. He explained tie prac-
,cability and showed the advantage which
would result 80 science by a borough ex>
poration to open the Polar Sea, which Or.
Kane and himself had reached He would
, found colony in Smiths Sound, aud
spring across the ice belt to Grinn,l Land,
! where he would establi.h depot Of sup
, niles, and thence with boats push oWtovard
the Pole. He did not believe in tic exist
ence of land at the North Pole, at was
satisfied that an open sea can bttolnd.
. . lie expressly stated that he did notsppear
? before the committee on his own PERSONAL
| behalf, but by an invitation and 1t he res
=, quest of gentlemen interested in semitic
. progress, lie took the broad srunt that
= = whatever was to he done hy the geermnent
: should be douc with view 10 udoubted
4, success.
!, sE- 4 lady with young chll was pas
q scnger on the railway tram. III child be
II coming weary, grew fretful, soevhat to
e the annoyance Of til. neis shborg q psssen-
o gers, and particularly SO to nIden lady
n who occupied part Of the anne seat
= with the mother. CoGcealing hill humor
for time, the spinster at Iengt hrose, and,
'e preparing to remove 10 dlsta seat, re-
ID marked to the mother of the eng child +;
!e Il can't bear children?'
Is rEOu can not