The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-09-20
Sinbad the sailor.
by THE "FAT CONTRIBUTOR"

b Sinbad the 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
father was a bagman--a nag-uag If
yon will-that is to say, a drummer"
tor hardware house. lie at length
drunmed up quite a respectable for
tune, and then Sinbad went to work to
spend it. Having bagged nearly every
other man Of means in Bagdad, he
tried to bag his dad, which was an
exceedingly bad sin on the part of Sin
bad
Young man, let this be a lesson to
you. "Beat your old grandfather,
don't spare maiden aunt who has
ducats, 60 for rich uncle, but don't
Bag-dad.
Suddenly recollecting himself when
his fathers money was spent and filled
with remorse-because there wasn't
any more of it-Sinbad went to sea
(how it was himself.) One day as they
were sailing pleasantly along, making
about a knot an hour which was knot
an hour too much considering the ex-
pense they We're at, they were sudden-
ly becalmed close to green island, as
they supposed, although 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 sail
ors to 60 ashore and gambol on the
green" as they hadn't seen u faro
bank since they left home, and wouldn't
probably, until they came to the Banks
Of Newfoundland.
No sooner lad they landed, how
ever, then the supposed island began
to tremble and shake Violently, as
though it had accidentally swallowed
an earthquake and it had gone down
the wrong way. The captain shouted
to them to re-embark, as what they
had taken for an island was only the
back of prodigious fish! 1t was
scaly business staying there, SO they
jumped into the sea and swan to the
ship. Sinbad, who stopped to see if
there was anything about that fish to
"hook," was carried down as the
monster dove into the sea. He came
up again, however, for Sinbad was a
man who couldn't be kept under, and
by means of a spar which he found
floating on the water he was enabled
to sustain himself, until at length he
made land, which was the first thing
lie had made since he left Bagdad.
Looking about carefully to satisfy
himself there wasn't anything tishy
about that island, he proceeded toward
the interior, and fell into the hands ol
some men who proved to, be servants
of the king of the island. They took
him to their master who enriched him
and sent him home by the first Bagdad
steamer that touched there. Sinbad
got home with ten thousand sequins,
which fully justified him in going
abroad, and afforded fine sequence to
his adventure.
He then thought he would settle Mt
home, but he found SO many debts at
home to settle that he changed his
mind and went to sea again.
Islands seem to have been the bane
of Sinbad's life. lie was continually
getting left on some island. And how
often we have seen our friends "get
left " on he md-soiorth. On this, his
second voyage, he visited an island
with his sllipmates, went to sleep In a
charming grove, and awoke in time to
see his ship sailing away, which seems
to have have been way his ships had
of sailing.
Knowing by former experience how
useless it was to repine, he sat about
examing his island home. He came
upon large white body about the size
Of two story house in a good neigh
borhood. furnished or unfinished.
He tried to climb it but couldn't,
climbing being mknownin that cline.
Suddenly the sky became dark, and
looking up he saw an immense bird
preparing to settle, something, by the
wav. he was never prepared to do
He then knew tie bird was a roc, and
the smooth white object as big as a
house was a rock egg. Placing his
back against the egg he drew his jack
knife and waved it with theatrical
air around his head, exclaiining-
"Comc one. come all this roc shall fly
From her goose egg as soon as l! "
The bird alighted without paying
any attention to Sinhad or his jack
knife, and sat on the egg, as little
George Washington wentat the cherry
tree, to hatch-it.
Sinbad thought of a capital plan for
getting away from the island. He
tied himself to the leg OF the roc, and
when she got tired of setting and took
wing she took Sinbad, too. Sinbad
declared afterwam, he was never so
carried away with a bird in all his life.
He was 50 tickled to escape from the
island that he nearly split with laughter.
If he had, that bird would have been
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