The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1876-01-19
THE MAN WHO LIED.
4 Handsome Ttke oG oaMe Men wlo
Lie for the Faa Of Bciag Heroes.

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Iheie Is class 6f II en- who love 10 sit a.
round the stove ofa country grocer, of
q winters evening and exchange lies. nj.
Quad, the wago the Detroit Free Press,
hits otfthis class H. The following story :n
One evening when the winter blasts
moaned SADLY across thestreet corners,
and the captains rof the ferryboats wore
anxious looks. seven or eight vessel own
ers and laid up lake captains sat as
round cheerful base burner. ina saloon
near the river. After tile usual amount
ofgmwling about The weather one ofthem
told story. There might have been an
ounce ~ truth ini it, but the Icrowd felt
certain that the on. Founce was!6fiset by
twenty pounds Of the sawfullest
kind" of lying. Therefore second man
told story to beat it, and then |. n third
man beat the.second. When The fourtli
mali started out he said.
Gentlemen, have also yseef. tough
times. When was sailing the schooner
Fortune forty years. ago two Of us,were
swept overheard in!a storm on Lake Erie
one black night. A hatch cover went with
US, and it so happened that We both clut-
cbed it. II was not large enough to sup
port two. 1t was captain, he asailor.
had n family-he had none. | shouted To
him to quit his hold. and when he would
not, reached over, clutched his throat.
and held ~ till his fingers loosened, and
he went TO the bottom Of the lake! 1t
was twenty miles off Point Beisey, aud
with shrill, wild shrek, which yet Linz
gers in my ears, the poor wretch went to
his death! May the Lord forgive me!
With his chair tiltcd against The wall,
u lanky, sunflowerish chap had been nod
ding his head right and left, as ifsleeping.
As the captains narrative was concluded
the stranger rose up aud so!tlnnly said.
i ana that man =
The crowd looked at him III astonish-
ment, aud he continued.
i landed on Point Betsey next morning
time for breakfast, and 1 swore a solelnn
oath I'd lick you for choking meif had
tn live hundred years 10 do III,
You can't be the man, replied the cap
tain. looking suspicioIsly at the fellows
big lists; III was forty years ago.
Il know it was, and for forty years i've
been aching 10 lick you out Of your bootsp
The captain had lied, bui lie didn't want
20 own il, and lie said
That sailors name was Dick Rice.'
'Kerect! bowed the stranger; that's my
name"
But lIe was taller :han ym.'
Being IN the water so long that night
shrunk just foot was the cool rejoinder'
We'll, | know you can't be the man.
said the cap,sin'
4 am the mau, and nuw I'm going tu
maui you 10 pulp! No man eau choke
me an. tlIeri brag about il y -
He sailed in aud upset the captain, but
was then sci upon by the whole crowd.
tie got into the eye ofthe wind and hung
there for time, but presently he paid Off
a little, got the wind on his quarter, and
went at IL TO lick ten times his weight in
old liars. lie was very ambitious man,
aud those who could get out doors got out,
aud those who couldn't offered him gal
Ion Of whisky To come 10 anchor. He
furled his sails on this understanding,
and rs he set his glass down for the third
drink lie wiped his bleeding car and re-
marked.
When man tries TO sacrifice me in
order TO save himself he don't know who
hes fooling with!
lie was the biggest liar ofthem all, but
lie made the most cut of IL.
Editors 7stgtulM and Messenger: Al
low ne to ;ell the readers Of the Telegraph
and Messenger That was an intense sul-
ferer with vertigo, sick headache and
general female complaints for Thirty years,
until a mnntli ago placed myself In the
professional care Of Dr Jones, at The Hume
phrey House, WHO has cured me aud to
whom would recommend all who are
suffering with this terrible disease.
Miss. Mary Monery,
Second ST Wilmington
4 painful trauSaction--getting out OF
bed in ones sleep, aud walking out Of =
third story window.
Never take your Christianity from
Christians. Int ssk yourself. How would
toe lord hive nc act Z aud follow bin.
When Simpkins died. he died poor. al.
though he left three hundred thousand dol.
lars. None Of i belonged 10 bin. you nee.
Why isa glazier 10 danger &c becoming
intenperatcs Because he must always
have bis glass before he can begin bis days
work. And then his days work begins.
4 Connecticut gentleman. on being ia.
troducsd 10 . newly married maii. VIII had
found his wife iu The nut ucr State ,s,u-