The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-20
A TERRIBLE LIAR.

said Cooley O'Leary, as we returned
from his friends funeral. "Why, be
told me once that he lived on a small
island in the Pacific Ocean on which
there was volcano. And he said thai
there was an active demand out in thai
region for watermelons, SO he went into
the business of raising them. And he
said one year his whole crop failed ex.
cept one melon, and that kept on grow.
ing at such fearful rate that it crowded
him OIL the lowland and up on the side
Of the volcano, which generated steam
and caused an explosion which blew up
the whole concern to atoms, and shot
him four hundred miles out to sea.
where he was picked up by a whaler.
He used to tell that the one great mis-
take OF his life was that he didn't drive
plug in the crater Of the volcano 80 as
to make 1t water tight, and then slice
open the watermelon and come sailing
home on the half-shell.
He would lie. He said that once he
was cast away on an iceberg, with no
baggage but pair Of skates and fish
ing pole. But he skated around until
pc came across dead whale, frozen
into the Ice, So he took off his shirt-it
was night for six months that year up
therefore 1t into strips for wick, run
the strips through the bamboo fishing
rod, stuck the rod into the fat Of the
whale, and lit the other end. He said is
burned splendidly, and the iceberg re-
fiected the light so strongly that it was
bright as day for forty miles around.
and one vessel ran into the iceberg
thinking it was lighthouse. He said
he sold the iceberg to the captain for
5000, and the captain split It I'D and
took 1t home and made 200 per cent
profit disposing Of it to ice companies.
Lille? we'll, sir, he beat any man I
ever came across. Told me that once
out In Nevada, a mountain lion attacked
him, with his mouth wide open. He
had presence of mind enough to grab it
by the tongue and pull. The lion
roared with pain, but he did his level
best pulling. and pretty soon the
Rogen 0s aggd dreee Ee o ano ias eame
the tail and the tongue in one continu-
GUS string. He said he had 'em at
home and he showed 'em to me, but my
belief is they were only three or four
cowhides and a bulls tail dovetailed to-
gether.
He was astonishing as truth
erusher. Said he served on a gunboat
during the war which was very small
and light, while the mortar on the deck
was very large and heavy, and he said
the first time they tried to fire Is
inch she'll, the shell remained station
airy, while the recoil was so great that it
fred the gunboat for miles up the
stream and landed it in tree. He was
a liar, but now he's dead, I reckon he'll
ketch it"
There was no doubt about it; Mr..
O'Leary was very successful as con-
Of energetic works Of fiction.
A tramp came down dusty road, and
sat down to rest on the steps Of house
in quiet VILLAGE street, Through the
windows the voices of man and woman
in violent alteration were heard,
and the tramp listened. Angry
words, and occasionally the sound of
something thrown, came to his ears and
he could hardly set still. At last evil
IDENTIFY the wife had taken broom and
the blows fell fast and furious. Our
tramp could stand it no longer. but,
rushing round to the side door, darted
in,. and stepping between the loving
pair, cried in a husky voice: ''Give us a
chop or two with the old broom. old
woman; it seems just like old times"
No matter. how much we wander, the
old home feeling will get US once In
while.