New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-09

That greets us still, though mortal tongues
It bids u do the work that they laid down
Take up the song where they broke OF IL
So journeying till we reach the heavenly town
Where are land up our treasures and our crown,
And our lost loved ones will be found again.
ABOUT A REMARKABLE STRANGER
Being = Sandwich Island Reniniscenes
BY MARK TWAIN.
l had barely finished my simple STATE
ment when the stranger at the other cOrne
of the room spoke out with rapid utteranc
and feverish anxiety:
"Oh, that was certainly remarkable, afte
fashion, but you ought to have seen m,
chimney-yOu ought to have seen my chin
hang n-Ar. Jones, you remember tina
chimney-you must remember that chin
ney! No, mol recOllect, now, you warn,
living ON this side of the island then. But
am telling you nothing but the truth, and
wish l may never draw another breath il
that chimney didn't smoke SO that thu
smoke actually got caked in it and had t.
dig it out with pickaxe! You may smile
gentlemen, but the high sheriff e got hunk
Of it which dug out before his eyes, and &C
it's perfectly easy for you to 60 and exam
inc for yourselves"
The interruption broke up the converse
ton, which had already begun to lag, and
we presently hired some natives and an
Out-rigger canoe or two, and went out in the
roaring surf to watch the children at their
! sport Of riding out to sea perched ON the
crest Of gigantic wave.
| Two weeks after this. while talking in a
company, looked up and detected this
same man boring through and through me
| with his intense eye, and noted again his
| twitching muscles and his feverish anxiety
to speak. The moment paused he said:
beg your pardon, sir, beg your pardon;
but it can only be considered remarkable
when brought into strong outline by isola-
| ton. Sir, cOntrasted with circumstance
which occurred in my own experience, it
instantly becomes commonplace. No, not
that-for 1 will not speak so discourteously
of any experience in the career of stranger
| and gentleman; but am obliged to say
that you could not, and you would not ever
again refer to this tree as q large one, if you
could behold, as have, the great YAKIMA
tack tree, in the island Of Ounaska, Sea Of
Kamschatka-a tree, sir, not an inch less
than four hundred and fifteen feet in sOlid
diameter! And wish may die in. a minute
if it is not 50! Oh, you need not look 60
questioning, gentlemen; here is old Captain
Saltmarsh, who can say whether know
what ann talking about or not. l showed
him the tree"
Captain Saltmarsh: "Come, now, cat your
anchor, lad-you're heaving too taut. You
promised to show me that sumner, and
walked more than eleven mile with you
through the cussedest, aggravatingest jungle
l ever see, . hunting for it; but the tree you
showed me finally warn't rs big around as q
Ann~
Markiss."
Hear the man talk! OF course the tree
was reduced that way, but didn't l explain
it Answer me, didn't l! Didn't l say
wished you could have seen it when l first
saw it, When you got up on your ear and
called me names. and said had brought
you eleven miles to leok at a sapling, didn't
explain to you that all the whaleships in
the North seas had been wooding off it for
more than twenty-seven years! And did
you s'pose the tree could last forever! Con-
found 1T 1 don'tsee why you want to keep
back things that way, and try to injure q
person that has never done you any harm"
Somehow this mans presence made me
uncomfortable, and l was glad when q ma
tive arrived at that moment to say that
Muckawow, the most companiOnable and
luxurious among the war chiefs of the
islands, desired us to come over and help
ENJOY mlSB1OOdry WHOM lie 0aO 1Ou0O Tres
passing on his grounds.
think that it was about ten days after
ward that, as finished a statement / was
making for the instruction of group of
friends and acquaintance, and which made
no pretence OF being extraordinary, a IA
miliar and hated voice chimed in on the
heels of my last word, and said:
"But, my dear sir, there was nothing re-
markable about that horse, or the circum-
stance either; nothing in the world" l
mean no sort of Offense when say it, sir;
but you really do not know anything what
ever about speed. Bless your heart, if you
could only have seen my mare Margaretta;
there was beast-there was lightning for
you. Trot! TrOt 10 no name for it-she
dew! How she could whirl buggy along!
l started her out once, sir-COlOnel Bilge-
water, you recOllect that animal very we'll
l started her out about thirty OF thirty-fve
yards ahead Of the heaviest storm l ever
saw in my life, and it chased us upward of
eighteen miles 1t did, by the everlasting
hills And Fm telling you nothing but the
unvarnished truth when 1 say that not one
drop Of rain fell on me-not one single drop.
sir And l swear it But my dog was
swimming behind the wagon all the way r
For week or two l stayed mostly with
in doors, for seemed to meet this person
everywhere. and he had become utterly
nateIul 10 me. But one evening l dropped
in on Captain Perkins and his friends, and
we had q sociable time. About ten o'clock
l CHANGED to be talking about q merchant
friend of mine, and without really intend
ing it, the remark slipped out that he was
little mean and parsimonious about paying
his workmen. Instantly through the steam
Of hot whisky punch on the opposite side
of the room, q remembered voice shetland
for moment trembled ON the imminent
verge of profanity:
'Oh, my dear sir, really you expose your
self when you parade that as q surprising
circumstance. Bless your heart and hide,
you are ignorant Of the very A b G of
meanness ignorant as the unborn babe
ignorant as unborn twins! You don't know
anything about it 1t is pitiable to see you,
sir, well-spoken and prepossessing
stranger, making such an enormous pow
WOW here about subject concerning which
your lgnorance il perfectly ghastlyl Look
me IN the eye, If You please; look me in the
eye. John James Godfrey was the son Of
peor but honest parents in the State of Wie-
bOyhOod friend Of mine
eo11e61e Il later yean. Heaven rest NJ
49, iEit - = gone from NJ now. John
dizzy Npo hired by the Hay-
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