The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15
SINB4D, THE SAILOR.
BY THE "'FAT CONTRIBUTOR. "


Sinbad, ;he sailor, was born in Bagdad
about The year -, and it is singular how
many people of whom we read were born
about The same year. His "a her was a
bag-man-a bag-dad if you wll-that is 20
say drummer for a hardware house.
He at length drUmmed up quite fortune,
and then Sinbad went to work to spend it.
Having baggcd nearly every other man of
meaus III Bagdad, he tried TO bag bis dad,
which WAS al exceedingly bad sin on the
part of Smbad.
Young man, let his be a lesson to you
''BeaG' your old grandfather, don't
spare a maiden aunt who has ducats, 90
for a ich uncle. but don't Bag dad.
Suddenly recollectmg himself when his
fathers money was spent, and filed with
TemOrse-because here wasn't any more
ofi,-Sinbad went 20 sea (how it was him
self. One day as they were sailing pleas
, antly along, making about knot an hour
which was knot an hour too much cou-
sldel1ng the expense they were at, they
Were suddenly becalmed close 20 a green
island, as they supposed, because nothing
but an exceedingly green island would be
caught out in the wide ocean so far from
land. The captain ordered the sails to be
furled, and allowed the sailo.s GO ashore
and ''gambol on the green, as they hadn't
seen faro bank siuce they left home, and
would not, probably, until they came to
TIC banks OF New fOun0l2nu.
No sooner had they landed, however,
nan The supposed island began to II embie
ard shake violently, as though it had ac-
cidentaily swallowed an earthquake and
it had gone down Ehc wrong way. The
captain shouted to them TO re-imbark, as
what they had taken for an island was only
the back of a prodigiOus fish. 1t was scaly
business staying there, so they jumped into
the sea and swan TO the ship. Sinbad.
Il,
about that fish to ''hook,' was carried
down as the monster dove into the sea. He
came up again, however, for Sinbad was
, man who couldn't be kept under, and by
means of spar he found floating on the
water he was enabled to sustain himself
until, at length, he made land, which was
the first thing he had made since he left
BaGdad.
Looking about carefully TO satisfy him
self that there wasn't anything fshy about
that island, he proceeded toward the inte-
rior, and fell into The hands of some men
who proved to be servants of the king of the
island. They took him 20 their master who
enriched him and sent him home by the
first BaGdad steamer that touched there.
Sinbad got home with ten thousand Sc
quins, which fully justified him in going
abroad, and afforded fine sequence to his
adventures.
He then thought he would settle at home,
but he found so many debts at home TO
settle that he changed his mind ard went
to sea again.
( Islands seem to have been the bane of
Sinbad's life. He was continually getting
left on some island And how often have
we seen our friends ''get left'' on leland
So-forth. On this, his second voyage, he
I visited an island with his shipmates, went
to sleep in a charming grove, and awoke IN
} time to see his ship sailing away, which
/ seems TO have been way his ships had OF
sailing.
/ Knowing by former experience how use
less it was to repine, he sat about examln-
ing his island home. He came upon a
: large white body about the size of a two
story house in a good neighborhOod, fur
nished or unfurnished. He tried 10 climb
it but couldn't, climbing being unknown
! in that cline. Suddenly the sky became
dark, and looking up he saw an immense
bird preparing to settle, something, by
the wav. lie was never prepared to do. }
1 He then knew the bird was roc, and the
/ smooth, white object as big house was
I a roc egg Placing his back against the
/ egg, he drew his jack-knife aud waved it
} with theatrical air around his head, eX-
claiming
Come one come all! this roc shall fly
From her gOose-eSg as soon as /. ..
The bird alighted without paying any
! attention to Sinbad or his jack-knife, and
sat on the egg, as little George Washington
went at the cherry tree, to hatch it.
Sinbad thought of a capital plan fol
getting away from this island. He tied
himself to the leg of the roc, and when she
got tired of sitting she took wing and took
Sinbad, too. .-
Sinbad declared afterward, he was never
so carried away with bird in his life: Tie
was SO tickled to escape from the island