The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-01
ANECDOTES.

pie was very brave man. and a very good
one, too. There was no better man Id the
country side. Sick men were always glad
to get him, and in desperate cases, when
every body else was broken down, Jack was
invariably sent for, because he never broke
down. With this preface Jack must tell
his own story in his own words.
What" I exclaimed, "sept with a
dead man? That is little too hard, Jack y
"lt is the truth, if ever l told it. You
remember Archie Anderson, don't you ?"
"Very WELL"
l slept with him, and it came about in
this way. Everybody was SO broke down
when he died that they couldn't sit up with
the corpse. Twouldn't do for the corpse
to be left by itself; so they brought out an
old ham, some cold biscuit, and a bottle of
whiskey, whats one bottle of whiskey to
me p built up good fire, but forgot to get
any wood to keep it a-going; and there
was alone in my glory. Archie was laid on
the bed, and l sat by the fire until it burnt
spang out. The whiskey had gone and
died out long before. l got chilled to my
very vltals-you know how cold man gets
when he loses sleep, anyway? and l was
afraid Id ketch my death if l didn't do
something. l hated to disturb the family,
all broke down as they were, and what to do
| didn't know. They had laid Archie out
on the bed, as l said before, and it was a
feather bed with good thick quilt on it,
too. got colder and colder, and couldn't
keep my eyes off that bed to save my soul.
But, plague take it all they had put Arch
lie right in the middle of il.
" At last 1 could stand it no longer. So
l went up to the bed, turned down the
sheet, and looked Archie full in the face.
He looked mighty peaceful So I saws to
him, says Archie, old fellow you and
me was good friends-wasn't we, Archie !?
You never hurt me whilst you was livin,'
and I be dog if I blieve you'll hurt me
will you, Archie p He never said
nothin', so I jumped right in, covered up,
and slept like top till after sun-up. But
the funny part was, when I woke up and
saw the dead face lookin' up at the ceilin'
made one leap and lit plum in the fire.
place. never was SO skeered in all my
life, and didn't quit tremblin' for half an
hour. But I'd heap rather sleep with
dead man than live one. Dead men can't
spoon, it's true, but they don't snore, nor
do they scrouge, nor dig you in the ribs, nor
kick you in their sleep, nor pull the kiver
Off of you, nor nothin'. They are frst-rate
bed-fellows, and you'll never ketch me set
TIN up with corpse agin if can git in bed
with hhlm."-LippincoH's Magazine.
WHOA! Hush PA rough-Iooking
stout built man, having the appearance of
teamster, called in at one Of the leading
stores of a country village, and requested
to look at some boots, which were shown
him. He selected pair that attracted his
eye, tried them on, and after making con-
siderable fuss " by frequently running to the
door and crying ont whoa, hush !" to his
oxen, finally concluded they would not fit.
He then called for some stuff for trousers"
and completed the negotiations for a pair
While the cloth was being measured, and
the trimming put up," the belief that the
boots would suit him seemed suddenly tn
strike him, and he again tried them on. He
then rushed to the door and yelled out at
the top of his lungs, whoa hush I" and
commenced running at full speed, and yell
ing every ten steps, "whoal hush /" The
last the merchant, who supposed he had
gone in pursuit Of his restless team, heard
from him was the whoa hush /" echoing
more and more family in the distance.
Whether the boots possessed some uncon-
trollable motive power, or the man was
drawn upon the telegraph wire, will proba-
bly, be known when he comes back The
team was all " in his eye," and the whoa,
hush !" q mere clamor for deception.
MATRIMONIAL EcoNeMY. Jake
Sleepygo was six-foot innocent, who
adorned one of the townships of Chester
County, Pa, not many years ago. Jakes
mother died, and he inherited little patch
of ground with wee hut on it. After his
mothers demise he installed in his home an
old woman from the almshouse as house
keeper. All things went well for some
time, but Jake was human and fell in love,
and one bright evening he appeared before
the squire with great lump of a girl" to
be married.
why, jake" said Jones, "I thought
you were fixed to perfect satisfaction with
old Nancy?"
Now Jake suffered, but sputtered out
So I thought, too, Squire; but tn
th-i-i-s th-th-ing Of p-p-p-aying housekeep-
er a ququ-a-r-ter Of dollar week wee wee
weeps away with fellows money"
Two girls employed in a large dry-eoods
establishment in Boston, and living in Rox-
bury, on discovering the danger from the