The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-01-28

sand road. A mile Of the road ex.
tending through Florids Town to the
BAY shore, wss the most magnificent
avenue Of live oaks. 1t WAS between
seventy aud eighty feet wide. and
each eide lined with rows Of umbrs.
geous like oak, regular pairisrchs of
the forest, with their tops covered
with the gray hair Of spanish moss.
Could il be transposed tn Cincinnati
it would prove as much sn object Of
note rs the Fountain, Music Hall, or
even the ''Zco." but Us Artemus saws.
"Alars ! it can No, be-" After secur-
ing our cquiues, We male ready TOR
the fun of the evening. \ camp fire
was built, and lightwood .plit ior
torches-lightwood il another name
for pitch pine. To catch the founders
YOU have To wade and spear them
with gig" as il j. called. \
torch carried by you furnishes the
light for the operation. The founder
will lie perfectly still ON their beds.
and let yon got within >rearing dis
lance, and. - the wafer Is perfectly
clear and the bytiom white sand. one
has no trouble finding them. Huge
crabs take advantage If the hoosi
tide. aud come in shore 10 iee,l, AMI.
as they mrr chnic- article Of TODD,
they, t"o, fall victims Ia mans
appetite. The ia'li., retired from The
the iisG, at the camp fir-, and
dnnne.i clothes suitable for wa,lins.
Torches are III. and. gig in hand, we
make Inc grand entry in the water.
which ELECTS feminine exciamations at
.'Oa. i>n'f that nice, Id like To 20
every night, Ola s:ol gracious.
What's that - -Ln;.i at ne, die
fish yes -hippin: 10y in ci'.--. proximity
to pedal ,xiremii;cz.. Then. Catch
him ! carc!, him. There he goes ~
lucsle>- crab i, seen making awkward
attempts To e-cap-. y zig .ovn >io,
him. and Lc is cas-, ia unr game-ha-.
the fir-t victim 1T our -lrars. On.
hupkv. dI III me sick one \ .ig
j. given her. in "a lea minutes. I've
90. un-, is The err. W., rush To the
spa; where she >'ard-, l,-:.i.ing i;.r-
wand aui ho!.iing to- the staff with a
determination that was he,nic. tx
animation proved tha, she did have
him. ami Ia her estimation he Was the
largest Que ever caught, aIrl >hc WAS
u heroine. with her ..blushin. honor,
thick upon her," \ wade If a hall
mile along the beach and the dealt, OF
u few more crabs som damped the
ar,lor cf the ladies, and they col-
cluded I" retire la the camp iise and
let IL finish the fishing. much To our
,afi,lac;inu. We tishei with varying
succes. far perhaps an hour and added !
largely 1" our catch oi fish. We did
not contiae ourselves strictly tn
founders, hut slaughtered everything !
IN our way. Am,ng>. others We
gieeed >iirgray, or ~ fishermen
cali them ''>iingarees." TheY have u
sharp thorn an their tall. similar To "a
cath>h's horTs. II one gets ,tung the
pain is so great as TO almost paralyze |
him, and it takes weeks to recover
from i,s effects. We ran across an
other ugly customer i'm the shape Of u
'awfish, and aS he let w. alone, we
lidu't modest him. We reiraced our
.'eps To the camp-ground, where We
found the ladies in high dudgern be- :
cause we had picked upon spot To
amp which WIS literally alive with 1
ieas. A few moments STAY convinced 4
Is that what We had taken fer a Sand.
BED was in reality a nea-bed, and
put more credence than ever before
N the tough story told Of certain
portions of Florida, where they are
aid In be sd numerous that il a man
axes up a handful Ct sand o-,hirds
# it would leap from his hand. We
'egan to make active preparations to
cave this delectable spot. and ,oon
'ad our horses hitched up and all
lands in the buggies, but We soon
anne to grief, for no sooner did We
>say to start than the miserable
'rute (he WAS a mustang" with all
he pleasant traits which belong to
ne species. began baking and going
Trough whole series Of gymnastics,
'hich ended in both shafts Of the
uggy being broken short of. After
council Of war We concluded to
ave the broken buggy and go home
. the other, which Was an open /:
,pped affair. with bare room for two. {
he npshOt was that we broke a 4
pring in it before going u mile. aud !
hen nothing Was lef: for US men to
D but foot it eight miles home, and,
, make matters worse, was in my
ocking feet. l bad taken off nv
ct boots aud couldn't get them on
gain. We reached home about 7
o'clock in the morning, and felt .
evoutly thankful that We had reached
,ere ut all. So ended my first
lperience in laundering.