Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-06
A Moment Of Horror.

For twenty-three years old Jake
willard has cultivated the soil in
Baldwin county, and drawn therefrom
support for himself and wife. He is
childless. Not long ago Jake left the
house in search of cow. His route
lay through an old worn-out patch of
clay land, about six acres in extent,
in the corner of which was well %
probably, had furnished the inmates
Of dilapidated house near by with
water. In passing this spot, an i'll
wind drifted Jake's tile from his
head, and maliciously waited it to
the edge of the old well and in it tum-
bled.
Now Jake had always practiced the
virtue of economy, and he immedi-
ately set about recovering the lost hat.
He ran to the well and, finding it dry
at the bottom, he uncoiled the rope
which he had brought for the purpose
of capturing the truant COW, and after
several attempts to catch the hat with
a moose, he concluded to save time by
going down into the well himself. To
accomplish this, he made fast one end
of the rope to fence hard by, and
was soon on his way down into the
we'll.
1t is fact, of which Jake was no
less obvious than the reader hereof,
that Ned Wells was in the dilapidated
building aforesaid, and that an old
blind horse, with bell on his neck,
who had been turned out to die, was
lazily grazing within short distance
of the well.
The devil himself or some other
wicked spirit, put it into Ned's crani-
um to have little fun; so he quietly
slipped up to the horse, unbuckled the
strap, and approached with slow and
measured "ting-a-ling' to the edge of
the well.
"Dang the old blind horseW said
Jake; "he's comm this way sure,
and got no more sense than to fall in.
Whoa, Ballp'
But the continued approach of the
'sting-a-ling" told as plainly as words
that old Ball wouldn't whoa" Be-
sides, Jake was at the bottom, rest
ing before trying to shin it'' up the
| rope.
"Great Jerusalemp said he; "the old
cuss will be atop o. me before J. can
| whoaW
Just then Ned drew up to the edge
Of the we'll and with his foot kicked
little dirt into it.
"Oh, LordW exclaimed Jake, falling
on his knees at the bottom of the we'll;
"Im gone w-Whoa!-Now lay
me down to sleep Whoa! Ball!-I
pray the Lord my soul to-Whoa!
now!-Oh, Lord! have mercy on mew
Ned could hold in no longer, and
fearful that Jake might suffer from his
fright, he revealed himself.
Probably Ned didn't make tracks
with his heels toward that we'll. May
be Jake wasn't up to the top of it in
order. May be not; 1 don't know.
But do know that if Jake finds out
who sent you this, it will be the last
squib you'll get from me.
The man who won't take a paper
because he can borrow one, has in
vented machine with which he can
cook his dinner by the smoke of his
neighbours chimney.
"What on earth made you get so
drunk, and why, oh why, do you come
to me in this dreadful state?" "Be-
cause, my darling, all the other places
are shut up"
Isaac says breakfast cakes are not
very deer, but the transformation of
~--h hntharc hi.--. "DeJ 20 doc svhaats
when first mixed, and cooking makes
dem buck-wheats."
A rural paper expressed the opinion
that the colleges have already gone
crazy over the coming regatta, and got
back the answer that they were still
in possession of their Faculties.
"What makes you look SO glum,
Tom?" "Oh, / had to endure sad
trial to my feelings" "What on
earth was it?n "Why, 1 had to tie on
pretty girls bonnet with her mother
looking.n