The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-17
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they were in seven degrees of Masonry.
twenty-five minutes and fourteen seconds
to a prize fight,P NJ, north latitude, with
the wind blowing north cast by east by
sOuth>s >sou-west 10y north nor-west by east
e-east by we-west by-by iimminy, this
is too much sailor lingo for me !
1t was too much for Crusoe as well.
The tornado Increased in violence, and
the waves rose higher than he had ever
known them TO be, even when gold was
25O. The vessel was wrecked on an is
land, and every soul lost except our hero;
who, in his bewiidered state, thought il
rather rough TO save Robson and use the
rest of his Crusoe
lie was washed ashore, after being
pretty Thoroughly washed on the sea, and
as soon as the waves subsidized he built
raft and brought away from the wreck a
lew such necessaries as a keg Of beer, a
hoop skirt, billiard table, a box of paper
collars, deck of cards, pair of corsets,
compass, a case Of Walton's Bitters, a
bottle of hair-Gye, an umbrella, volume
OF the Congressional GloJe, q boot Jack, a
piano-stool a cigar holder, and a bottle of
DIR. Kerr's Renovator. With these arti-
cles he hoped to get along very comforta-
bly,.
am thus particular to mention this.
because he didn't act as many do-go and
sue the Insurance companies before trying
to save anything.
The island proved to be Juan FeTnan-
dez. 1t is lonely, uninhabited island in
the South Pacific. off the usual track of
ships, or of any railroad track. 1t might
be Juan Fernandez, but it wouldn't be
any Juan for me.
But Crusoe, solitary and alone, man.
aged to get along very we'll there for sew
eral years. He had no neighbors to quarrel
with, didu't have a gas bill coming in
every two months, wasn't threatened with
having the water stopped, hadn't any one
10 scUld him when he came in late, wasn't
kept awake by the firing Fourth of July
nights, nor harassed by any life insurance
agent.
He tanned a number of wild animals
and he taught them various tricks, some
times giving entertainments at various
points on the island for the amusement of
animals that were not yet tanned. But
this is not peculiar to Cru5oe. All men,
ageries do that right along, only they make
The wild animals pay as they 60 in.
We are enabled TO gather some Of his
habits from the familiar poem which he
left behind for purposes of school declama-
ton:
81 am monarch of all survey"
(IIe knew something of surveying, evi-
IDENTIFY, and amused himself by laying out
town lots-aH his own.)
MY right there is none to dispute
Gle was a pugilisiic skiIful with his
right, and there was none TO dispute it J
From the center all round to the sea-
Feniau, of course, and head Centre
all round to the sea
81 am the lord of the fowl and the brute"
Mind on the ring yet-won't allow
foil, and can handle the brute.
CIusoe was greatly alarmed one day
by seeing the print of human foot on
the sand. 1t measured something over
fourteen inches to the foot. No savage,
he thought, short of Long John Went
worth, of Chicago, could sport such u
foot but he Immediately reflected that
HOhS q CObii was !lOl ySb Oil Sailus 50 IL
couldn't be he. lie concealed himself,
and quickly saw boat load of cannibals
land with prisoner in their midst, gen.
tleman by the name of Friday, whom
they prepared to roast for dinner. Crusoo
being conscientiously opposed to eating
meat on Friday, interfered and rescued
him from the cannibals. So from that
day he became Robson Crusoe's man.
Friday, doing his chores, blacking his
boots, running of errands, and voting at
every election as Crusoe directed
After years spent on this lonely island,
a ship touched there for water, there being
nothing else TO touch there for, and took
Robinson Crusoe to England.
Robson, from his boyhood up, had a
habit of Growing when surprised or de-
lighted. Years after his delivery, when
speaking of the first glimpse he caught of
that ship, he used to say, never vas there
a period in his life when Robinson Cruz
soc.
When Robinson died he imagined he
was surrounded by enemies, for his last
words we're
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