The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-31

concluded to go and see for myself.
yesterday evening, having got through
with my work an hour earlier then com
mon' eat my supper and started for the
widders, when got there it was list about
dark ana reckon there were then about
twenty people and they kept droppin' in
tell about ten O'clock there must have
been ttty then, without the babies, lesides
couple o dozen dogs. Old Babel couldn't
ey been more noisier than that crowd: eff
there had been hundred hants there at
that time you conldn't ey heard them.
Along towards eleven things began to quiet
little by degrees, and when the clock
struck twelve you could ev heard pin
drop; all vas listening for the liant. We
| didn't have to wait very long before we all
heard Il but what seems kind o. curious tc
me, no two Of US heard it in the same di.
rcction, one said he heard it under the floor
another one under the bed, another said he
heard It back OF the house in the bluff. and
50 on can tell you, we had list the big
gcst argument, you ever heard, for every
one was talking at once, and for fear there
wasn't enough said by the fifty people pres
ent; the couple o dozen dogs done what
they could in supplying their koto of noise
by barking and yelping as lively as their
strength and lungs would bear. | reckon
Square, this argument or debate, would
compare very favorably with some of our
great debates in our National Congress- l
vas pooty well satisfied that heard
the hant on the loft, because nv
facilities Of hearing are a little bigger
than any there, if they stick out right smart
from my head. The noise that we heard
was something like an OK, having his nose
close to the bung hole of barrel and blow
ing his breath into it, though it didn't sound
quite so loud. In about a half hour the
argument was nearly wound up, only about
half dozen dogs were yelping and four
or five men and about an equal number of
women were given it the finishing touch.
Arrangements were now commenced for q
thorough hunt about the house and pre-
misses. The force was divided into squads
OF from five to six, all but my squad.
reduced that to one, then the hunt COM
mcnccd. There wasn't an inch of ground
within hundred yards Of the house, but
what was gone over at least three times.
DICK Parson and his squad was Just coming
back to the house when Dick seeing a hole
IN the under pinning about big enough for
small man to get through, he told tue
boys, that under the floor was just as likely
place for han, as anywhere else but
that hole was too small for him to get
through, or he would take the lead. but as
the rest OF them are all right smart hitler
than he, he told them if they felt disposed
to vcnter under there that he would stand
guard outside This was agreed to anu
through the hole went the squad all except
Dick. They took with them an old tin
lantern; it didn't give as much light as that
great uminary, which b!a2es in the starry
heavens at high noon and extinguishes all
their sparks without the least bit of
trouble. Excuse me Square for getting
such an awful distance above my subject.
1t is as the poet says, "but one step from
the sublime to the rcdickilus" and visa
versa, just according to how a persons
thoughts wander. Well, as | was saying,
they took the tin lantern and looked in
every hole and corner, but no liant was there.
At last they concluded to come out. Dave
Draper who had the lantern thought he'd
take another look All at once while he was
creeping along slowly and carefully, some
thing went past him touching his face, and
he said the sparks flew like fury, and that
it had two round balls Of fire. 1t made
him jump and strike his head against the
floor like eff he had Il serious notion Of
leaving that place head first through the
floor; when his head struck, he let 90 the
lantern, which parted company with the
stump Of candle as it struck the ground,
the candle in consequence was eytinguished
and LETT them all in tetota darkness. One
of the boys asked Dave what was up 81
was up but I'm down now and my head
don't feel any the better for having been
up" he said, land boys I'll tell you what's |
a solemn fact, got sight at the liant sure,
eff you'll look toward the chimney you can
see part of it now, its two blazing eyes"
They all looked that way and sure enough |
there 1t was. They then concluded to have
Il closer look at it, and started for it, Bob |
Buster taken the lead. When he got in
about two feet he stopped, but no sooner
had he come to a halt than them two balls |
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