Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-04-01
By Mopoc,
with Injections by Bohe.


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Concluded IRON Daily of March 75.I s#
There was fun at meal times when, - the
party sat around the rough board table and
ate with the aid of borrowed knives and
/ forks, the story and jest passed around with
marvellous and appetizing rapidity, whether
the merits of Ben Butler, ["The troubis with
| Ben Butler is that he's 50 much sInaEtor than
all the rest Of EN-, eyerybody's down on
| him''-Eh, Cheeky y?-B. the adventures of
Bub, passing events, Or the quality Of the
| food were considered. There was fun one
evening when the singers let themselves ont
in an Improvised song to the tune Of $40
drive dull care away" in which the peculiar
tiles and mshaps Of members of all the par
ties were sung amid much laughter. There
| were quantities of fun the night of Bohoss
famous adventures in search of Lodgings. and
| some little anxiety tor time among the oc-
cupants of the various tents at which he
made application and received permission
from those who were in the secret, his sesri-
BILE earnestness precluding any apparent ns-
sibilties of his being "only joking.' There
was fun one night when job was put up on
Judge, though the laugh was rather tnrned ON
those who tied his feet 90 tightly to the cen
| tre-pole and then called all hands to see The
fun, as he was suddenly walked by blowing
tin horn in his ear, for, discovering his pre-
dcament he coolly, without fiutter OF an
attempt to struggle, raised his head, looked
at the knot and dryly remarked ssBohe
did that-that's bowllne." jess 80 Jedge.
I-B. There was fun one evening when the
| Orphans appeared on the rocks behind the
tent and giving serenade, disappeared, and
shortly afterwards large party silently
| crept up over the rocks and crawling along
after few moments of profound Stiffness
suddenly burst upon the sercnaders IN
charge with an old-fashioned charging yell,
scattering them quickly and bringing to the
minds Of the veterans who did not join In the
charge many instances when they had waited
anxiously to hear from parties sent out in
front, and got their first news as the stiffness
was broken by that same yell. There was
fun the first night, when, long after all the
rest in camp we're asleep, pair Of irrepressi.
bles in the wall tent planned and skillfuliy
carried out an arrangement by which they
were enabled, while remaining in their own
| tent to kick up tremendous rattling Of tin
pans in the Sibley tent, waking up the occu-
pants thereof In wonder and amazemeut and
| frightening them little till they got more
familiar with the spirited manifestations,
| though even then they could neither see the
| mediums or understand their workings
| They might have let us sleep the first night.
I-B. Then there was some fun the morn
ing the boat was found to be sunk, in .chaf-
| ling he who was out with it last the
night before 0 Bub, Bub.-B. !, and some
severe thrusts were given but he stood 1t brave
y and joined in the fun heartily. eThete
was some fun ON account of Judge when,
being taken with an irresistible desire to 20
fishing, and finding no one who cared TO 60
with him, he gathered up all the cod lines he
could carry, saying he wanted to throw them
out all around the boat and taking for bait
all the clams and dead fish he could find on
the island as we'll as pound more or less Of
pork, started Oft alone, returning in very
short time saying he began to feel a little
| qualInish as soon as he got TO the fishing
grounds, and not liking to be seasick out
there all alone, he came back without wet
ting line. Real fun fishing isn't it Judge?
|-B. There would have been fun the first
morning in camp had it been known that
Artemas and Modoc who started after mitk
for the coffee. padded and pushed the boat
through the forest of seaweed lit being low
tide) across to Southport with great diff
Guilty, only to find that Modoc had left the
milk pals behind, and they were Obliged TO
recross to the island, get the pals and again
cross to Southport, giving themselves q large
amount OF extra trouble, but they kept the
affair to themselves to prevent being laughed
at. Wouldn't we have given them roast If
we had known Of this a-B. There was
fun one evening when one of the party dis-
gushed himself in woman's apparel (bor-
rowed from Our Next Neighbors) and quiet
y taking his place among the crowd sitting
ON the side of the rocky hill singing re-
mained unnotlced and an apparent. stranger,
until he attempted to change his position
and threw one leg over the other knee Any
body ought to have known better than that
B. which. operation was seen By sharp
eyed young lady who saying ..no woman
would do that" scrutinized the strangers
face, and discovered his identity.
cloud passed over the camp one after
| noon when it was deemed necessary in BE-
half of good order, to court martial ono of
| the party. The charges were in short, dis
obedience of orders, calling Capital Island"
"Pig Cove" and the dwellers thereon, sPig
Cove Flats" against the dignity of the camp,
and general eussedness." The court was
duly organized and was proceeding in prop
er form, when the prisoner, who in charge
of corporal, sat on large rock in front of
the tent, in which the court was convened.
suddenly jumped from the rock, sprang over
the bank, and before the court was aware OF
what had happened, was in boat and max
ing away as if for dear life. 1t appeared
that julia Gardiner was rowing around the
cove leisurely, when at o motion from the
prisoner, which she understood, she brought
the boat up to the beach in a position that
enabled him to make an escape. (You did
it well, Julia, but remember, you are TO be 3
court martialed next year, Unfortanatsly
| for the prisoner, in his haste in taking the 3
oars from the young lady, he dropped one Of
them, chad he allowed her to keep the oars
he might have reached the other shore, and
escaped into the woods, as she 10 perisctly At
home IN 2 boat criPpliug, him hs.lly.is