The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1878-09-14
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1t is remarkable the amount OF
inquisitiveness a New Highlander
develops in the course of this life.
There is nothing awkward or con
strained about it. 1t comes easily,
naturally and gracefully. In no
part of New England is this trait
SO carefully cultivated as in our
own dear Connecticut. Its fruits
are shown in the record of the
patent office. There are other
fruits, however, not quite SO hap
py, which never get inside of the
patent office ; and it is as we'll
they don't. Here is an Instance in
kind
A Danbury grocery firm have
taken the agency for IA hammock.
One of the articles they have
hung at the froht in the shade OF
their porch. They hung it there
as a sample and as an advertise
ment, but numerous people have
got into it TO see how it worked.
1t hung so low they could easily
sit in it, and undoubtedly the mo
ton was agreeable and comfort
ing. But the grocers didn't fancy
this performance, especially as
the hammock sisters were not
onyers. Saturday afternoon they
removed the lotp TO one end from
the hook, and fastened it by a bit
OF Irvine instead. Shortly after a
man came in for two quarts of
m%olaSSeS. 1t a put up in his
pail and a paper tied over the top,
as he had fLrgotten to bring a
coy9r. When he passed out he
saw the hammock. His curiosity
was aroused at once. The grOcers
busy inside, SO he thought he
would investigate on his own
hook.
With that keen nutrition pecu
liar to a New England man, he
saw at a glance that it was some
thing to get into. He knew it
Was nothing t. wear, and WAS
equally sure it cou!d not he ar
ranged for cooking. He sat down
in it. Then he swung backward
and lifted his feet up. Then the
tWine fastening gave way. He
had the pail of mola5seS sitting
Oh lis lap, aud there WIS a dog
>ittin. under the hammock. Mel
Their the dog nor the mOlasSe> sus
pected anything, any more than
the man himself did. 1t was a
terrible surprise to all Of them.
Tue man aud the dog lost their
presence Of mind and even the
pail lost its head. The molaSseS
went into his lap and ran down
his legs, and swaShpd up under
his vest, and insinnated itself
sonie way in between himself and
his clothes. And when he went
down he hit the boy With his heel
on the back, and the dog was SO
wild with terror ami an!azrment
that it set up a head splitting yell
AMI Hed madly down the street
having first taken The precaution
to bite him OF the leg and to tip
over a tier OF wooden water pals
When the pals Went down IA lot
of hoes were carried over with.
them, and that started a box of
garden seeds mounted or Il box,
AMI they in turn brought away a
pile OF peck measures whose sum
nit was crowned with Il pyramid
OF canned tomatoes. 1t was a
dreadful shock to the man and
fairly paralyzed him with it's mag
nitude ; but when one article tol>
lowing another avalanching atop
of him, he thought the evil one
himself had burst loose, and he
just screamed as lond as he could.
The molasses was all over him,
aud the garden seeds bad adher-
ed to the m0lasses. and he looked
more like IA huge gingerbread
stuck full OF oaraWayS than any
thing else. In this awful condition
he waddled home, aud swore ev-
cry step OF the way.
There has never been anything
like it in Danbury since the Brit.
isll burned the town.
The SENTINEL would sur
Gest to the Refugees from Ttltb-