The Red Cloud chief., 1880-12-02
THE CLOyERTOPS AT THE SEA.
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THE CLOyERTOPS AT THE SEA.
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"EvESIS', Mister Barnaby. Evenin',
sir. Light an come in won't We?
Miggles. git Mister Barnaby a cheer.
Set We down, sir. Powerful glad to see
you; was afraid ye'd be gone back TO
Washin'ton afore we come home. Ye
wouldn't hardly a knowed Miggles,
would We. She's growed awful stylish
sinst We been down to the sea shore.
An her mother, sir? Well, I'm blest
ef the old lady amt nigh as bad as the
daughter. The old man appears TO be
the only one in the lot hat the same
old fool that he always was, an is glad
TO get back 10 Nodaway County an the
farm.
"Yes, sir, we summered down 10 the
sea shore. Miggles has just been wild
10 go for morc'n three years back an
her mother has kept her agoin'. So
along last July, airIv in the month,
things was lookin' well about the place
an luck had ben weth me all last year,
an so we packs up an went. Stayed
around down East thar a couple o
months or so.
"All the time we was to Boston /
didn't see but m piece of ground big
enough 10 put in any kind of a crop,
and that was all put down in grass.
Twasn't more nor half cleared, either.
j dozt suppose. Mr.. Barnaby, thar'H
be three hundred bushels of corn raised
in all Boston this year.
I'VE got onto a steamboat thar, a n
went down to Maine. Lemme tell you.
Mister Barnaby, the Courthouse at
Marvville amt a circumstance TO that
ar steamboat. Everything SO white We
was afcared TO touch it, an niggers TO
wait on We ut every turn. We had sup
per right after we went on board, an
Of we didn't Law right into the fixin's
tbar's no snakes. L reckon we Jest
about tired two Iellers clar out, carryin'
hot cakes. Then we went out an sot
down an watched the waves rollin an
tumbIin' around. Pleasant? oh, yes,
Mister Barnaby, it was kind o pleas
, ant, at fust.
.'Bime-by, however, we sort o quit
talkin' and sot lookin' straight ahead,
Uneasy like. Ma began to look awful.
MA | says, ANT you feelln'
well? What appears TO be the matter
with you?'
We'll, ma she sayed she didn't jest
know. she didn't feel well, she reck-
oned she'd better lay down for a while.
An helped her to u room, an l
sw' ar TO goodness | thought that wom-
an was goin' To die. Out | run agin.
.Miggles,. | saved. You'll hev to
go an set weth your mother while l hunt
up a doctor, she's -
An jest her | looked at Miggles.
"'Je-roo- Zalem"
"Says |, 'Migglcs. what ais We?
PA she SAYS, Pa, Use awful sick,
/ can't hold my head up a minnit long
er; | don't know. what ails me-
We'll, | holp her to the where
ma was, and before | could turn around
to 90 for a doctor. Mister Barnaby, sir,
hope to die right hyar, eff | didn't
catch ii myself.
".Oh dear, oh dear groans ma,
I'm goin' to die; oh. I'm goin' to die.
It's them pesky COW cumbers! Oh dear,
oh dear!'
..Oh me. oh NV walls poor Mig
giles, I'm dyin', oh | know I'm dyin',
I'm dyin' 1 can't live an hour! Oh
dear, oh dear. It's the ice cream, pa
she saws.
BY George / hollered, I'm a
dead man now, but I'll Law out the nan
that killed me fust-I know what the
matterin
AN weth that l rushed out, or
rether tumbled out of the room, and
set up a veil for the Captain. Every
body come rupnin' TO me, an bime-by
a man all covered with gold tape and
brass buttons wanted toknow what was
the matter.
...Matter enoughr l yells. .Pizen!
Rank pizen. thet's what's the matter!
I'm pizened right on this boat! Me an
nv family has been pizened right at
YOUR table, an l want a doctor for ma
an Miggles mighty quickn
..Weil, sir. Mister Barnaby, eff that
man didn't stand there an laugh at me.
...Oh, yes,' he says, kind o soothin'
an unbelievin' like, Il guess We amt
pig ned. l ct at the same table, says
he, an / amt a bit sickr
..Well, somehow, his latin riled me.
...Ye can't fool me- l roared; we
can't play no old man Bender on me! l
know pizen when | see it workin', an |
know a hull family that hain't spent
Two dollars for medicine in sixteen
year amt goin to be took deathly sick
all at the same time, an in the same
way, lets'n thar's pizen in their vittles!
Saws /, this amt no milk sick' Send
me the doctor for ma and Miggles
mighty quick says /, tell him to run
every step of the way
1.-The Captain he turned around an
as well as he could for latin, fer |
could see he was nearly chokin' weth it,
an told a man to 60 an ask Doctor
Bolus to come here right away.
IAN tell him to fetch his stommik
pump along,.' | hollered after him; tell
him TO bring along his stommik pump!
The biggest and strongest one he's
gotr
".An', sir, eff you'd a heered the
passengers an that brute of a Captain
veil, They hollered an laft an fell
down on the sofys and helt their sides
an LATED till l was mad enough to fight,
on'y l couldn't stand on my feet long
enough to hit anybody.
my good fellow says the Cap
tain, never mind that: they won't
need any stommik pump says he.
.they can get along very well without
it, he says, an then he breaks out
latin, wuss n any O. the rest on EN-.
LAND of Judgement, Mister Barnaby.
sir, but l was howlin' mad. was that
mad / nigh forgot how sick l was, and
the madden / got, the they LATED.
Rime-by the doctor he come an saved
we was only sea sick an they want no
help fer US at all. we'd jest hev to grin
an bear it till it got th'ue weth us, he
said, an that's all the doctor done for
us.
"Well, we was all well enough in the
mornin', though 1 sw'ar l wouldn't o
give an acre of goose paster for our
lives any time tibet night, an eff they's
any difference between sea sick an
arsenic pisen, it's on'y in the result, for
either one of EN- is a thunderin sight
wuss'n the other. But the Captain was
right about the stommik pump; none
Of us seemed to need it very much.
1--WE went in bathin', in the surf, oil
course. Miggles went in frequent, but
ma an me we got enough out of one