The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-01-27


faal tired. The III often lasts t.g % three
weeks. aaI il take5 assay ali my appetItc,
for have 10 be fed with i squirt gun just
oe hind ny eye tooth.
You hook as ii you wanted to laugh
Mister, Dut them as takes care of uIe in
those spells, don't laugh much, | tell You
they don reckon haE | MAKE ii any joke
for them.
Bat wouldn't mid these things if il
WASH Tor the Shipping OF my spinal cord.
/; never gives me any warming, TIA the first
/ | knos II gives way, md pitches nle right
over head frs. iatn whatever lies IN front
Now, one day last spring, Just as | was get
ting over the lock jaw. rode out on the
prairie acros, By the SIoo ana | saT big
stone IN The road, and got out TO push 1t
over. Then went to III Sioo to wash my
hands. As bent forward, my shaky ed
spine let right %, and dove head first into
the mud, ami there struck, head under
and feet thTa>hine on the Da..S. had 10
stay there til one Of nay men, PISS ing by,
look u,e by the heel and pulled ue cut :
How long shJuid You thiak you were
under water, Nlr. Spencer? asked one OF
the Eeiderklu boys.
Really, l couldn't say exactly, as
couidn readily ct at my watch. but it Was
nigh on to hat al hour, and will coufess,
gentleman, that never vas 80 hard put to
1t tor breath In my iIte
But, Mr.. Spencer. don't you take any
medicine for your troubles!
Medicine. Oh, yes? Why, sir I've
taken In one dose hunk OF blue nil as big
a. baby iist, aud | We swallowed a whole
apotbecary shop except the bottles and
corks. And | uled h5dr0pathy. went 10
Chicago doctor and got prescription for
boiling water So II wOaIJn t sea'd me; flied
a hat hogskead and got III; was scrubbed
and rubbed, aud scraped With Old iron
car d!estlck TO open niy pores. Then got
TO led, aud presently | began to sweat. L
sweat through the feather bed, and through
the straw beJ, and through the eacklug
down on to the floor OF the room in stream
TO thu door sill, aud out through crack
under the door sill into The street SAID
to aGnah tthat my wife, Hannah, |
can stand this; | won be drosaed in my
own bed So l got up and dressed me. and
put on my nat tn 60 out. Ii was Il coli day
IN January. A. / opened the door no
tlced the faln>dIors failing fast Oh my
clothes. Saii i, hannah, shat a Sudden
| shower. w by, husband, 1t doc rain,
she sad. Gentlemen, 1t was nothing bat
the Precipitation streaming of nay fore
head
Mr. Spencer then proceeded to detail his
experience with mesmeilsmr and the gal
vanlc belt, hi az last | sald that he seemed
to have been treated tor almost every
known disease, and hence [ nigh venture
to luquife II he had ever been bItten toy a
mad dog. No, sir, he promptly replied,
with al air OF severity: Tout | saw man
who was bitt Ell by maSsIsauger Fer
haps you We never seen one oil them prairie
= rattlesnaAes. stranger? On! you have.
" ell, you Yankees DO learn some new
, thugs out here. As | was saying, we were
bIudiug alter NeCo mick 5 reaper down on
, Section 49, HE httIe bundles, you know,
lie out day OF TWO before We pick them up
and make the shocks. Over night. the
snakes curl up underneath to keep warm.
Ii was about noon, anu one of my men had
just reached round bundle to hit Il and
+ bind II, when he TOOK d bIg maSSa>auger
night by the tai. The reptile wriggicd
around his d t head and struch the puor
chap IN the side, aud he yuared out with
, anu stald To watch The fellow. lie began 10
q SVEN up rlShl away, aG8 IN ten mIuu e. he
, was bigger than pork barrel But be
: lie KEPT right on, rounding out aDd rUuud-
ing out, uI finally | lutuld nv back on
such sight. All al once | heard an ex-
. ploslon, and he was gone. He'd blown
open ana Uufet ali abroad, sit!
nat dld you DO, Mir. SpenceY?n
! Me! L Collected his fragments and
gave him decent burial.
Fearing every mgAcnC that | myself
e shouiu explode with my suppressed laugh
, ter, 1 thought TO change the subject by
, asking about The doctors bills. To INV re
ilti Spencer agalu withdrew his attention
ffom he and launched out iuto another
, series OF great moral truths After
a saying that he had paid $1,000 TO various
; physIcians, he SPOKE OF the property he
bau eaci iuceu 20 meet these OifiS In uar
, tieuiaT he u"eit moufni'uiy upon the sale
, vi span ol hufoes anu a Yoke IT oxen
Here lie frightened up, as he SAID: Gen
, tiehth, /! tel juu Two or three j.fcts about
, those beasts, To give you some Idea OF their
value.
i st rted one day with my span of grays
and u load OF corn, to dfIye TO Jack son. nine
/ miles, to market. Blousl ut back = bags of
meal auu barrel OF Il gur u ell lust ii,
got out OF the town, and had about eight
miles OF prairie WIKI me aud Hannah.
, heard rafting noise behind me, and
"heh L looked round, there was bouncing
nan storm hight upon uie. l yelled at the
grays and hung my chaw OF tobacco at
Billy, tor be was the latest, and We swung
I =
, hiram oodruff pace. / never quit veil,
ing, aud they never stopped running TIL we
struck kllderkln' Corner, right where YOU
: baked that big burr oak this morning.
r Then l found the storm was over, aud
when l looked 10 see if the load was all
E safe, there was two bushels and bait of
| hallotones 10 the hind end ct my wagon.
, bur not one OF EN- o. my sacks or Oh me
Gentlemen, had raced on the edge o.
that hal storm all those seven miles home
Now, 1t my Opinion that you couldu' do
that little trick to-day with any two horses
5 IN Illinois, not If you soak their taliS ia
5 turpenune the night before, ani touch
, match to EN-, just a. you say-Git out Of
, this >"
Taking furuve survey of his audience,
and hooking his heel tfm, on to the round
: OF his char, the truthful SpcGcer braced
, himself Tor a final tale
Nv hen | first came here in lS49 those
/ oxen were steers. Stock was rather
scarce then and | worked tl,. critter. -,