Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-06

Experience Of a Man who Wanted
TO Rcvive Old Memories.

ExperieAcc Of a Man who wanted
TO Revive Old Memories.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The boys were coasting down Sycamore
street hill last evening, when John San
script and his wife came along. They had
been up on Baltimore street visiting, and
were on their way home.
s'Just see them boys, now" said John,
as he braced up at the intersection of Null
berry street; sit really reminds me of the
days ween I was a lad. Do you know,
Jane, that l used to coast down hill on q
sled that way?"
Ibid you, John"
why yes ; but that's fifty years ago +"
Sanscript scratched his head contemplate
lively, and then muttered soto uoce !:
"Durn my grand-daddy's buttons, If l
don't try it?"
''Try what, my dcar?" anxiously asked
Mrs. s.
"I'm going to coast just once, just to
revive recollections Of fifty years ago."
Now, John, if l were yen
"But you are not me, so don't interfere.
Here, sonny Ito a lad who had just pulled
up the hill with his sled) here, sonny, I'll
give you a quarter to let me slide down on
your sled once"
DC OClluI, olh Iai 70 ttS o0st
as Sanscript squatted rather awkwardly on
the sled "be keerful, l say, and don't let
her funk one way or t'other till she brings
up, or you'll get mashed"
sNever mind, yonker," answered John |;
I've been here afore, some years afore,
but"
But what will never be known, for just
| then the sled, Of its own accord, started
down hill, and even John himself has not
been able to recall what he was about to
observe. The surprise at the sled's unex-
pected movement was general.
Look out ! % yelled the boy.
ooh, John /" screamed Mrs. Sanscript.
"Whoa, there !" yelled John.
But the sled wouldn't whoa. 1t seemed
to have set off down that hill to beat its
own time. John had chance only to clutch
hold of both sides and hold his breath, for
fear the wind would blow off the top of his
head. The only thought he had time to
foster Just then was that the boy must
have creased the sled's runners, as a prae-
teal joke. And if this was coasting, he
had never coasted, If his recollection
served him right.
Two-thirds the way down the hill the
sled struck an ice hummock, and immsdi-
ately his course was changed to a parabolic
curve.
Whack bang crash !! clink
The bringing up was awfully sudden and
uncertain. Sanscript and the sled disap-
peared as abruptly as a shooting star.
The latter lay shivered to atoms against q
lamp-post, and Sanscript lay shivering in
the grocery cellar just opposite. When the
off runner of the sled collided with the
lamp-post, and stopped the vehicle, San
script rose like a circus lcaper, and went
right on, turning twenty somersaults to
the second. He went through the grocery
window as a circus leaper goes through a
paper hoop. All the gingerbread horses
and candy, apples, and other Christmas
luxuries were ~disarranged, of course. The
rubbery part of Sanscript's body struck 9
Western Reserve cheese, on the counter,
scattering the shippers in CONSERVATION
The old coaster bounded five feet at an OBJ
fuse angle, touching again for a second al
the top step of the cellar stairs in the real
of the store, and then, continuing like
diver into the Plutonic depth below. HI
went feet foremost through the head OF
hogshead filled with something soft. A
first he was uncertain whether the contents
were Orleans molasses or melted glucos
Before he had time 10 investigate, the gro
Ger and two policemen came down. Tn
unhappy old boy was lifted out OF his swee
pickle and hauled off to the station-house,
on a charge of malicious destruction o
property. The grocer appeared soon afte
and compromised, upon John paying tin
following bill: