Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-05-03
MISC CELIA NE US.
TIE STORY OF MEDooDLINs..
As Told 10 George and RoSert A1ekin..
BY THEIR PARENT.

sApEDOODL1NS was a woodsman bold.
gas Aud the bold Medoodlius inhabited tho
depths OF the deep, dark dark, dismal, ,dreary.
deliberate forest. In stout hut. He was
lonely man. For he had neither wife nor
child in his stout, lonely hut. And the tall
trees grew up around the lonely Medoodlins.
sending out on every side branches with
thick leaves that intercepted the light of
heaven. So that it was dark, sdank and de,
liberate there, But Medoodlins was woods
man bold. Childless and wifeless he went
forth each early morn to slay the mild tailed
Huldoo, the juicy Wuzjig and the tender
Chiddlepin, whose teeth are like tho teeth
| OF honeycomb, and whose voice is as the
voice OF sapsucker.
But annoyed by the morning and the even>
ing gun of Medoodlins, the noisome beasts
that dweft in the dark depths of the deem.
deliberate forest arose and precipitated thems
selves upon him. Aud the lions and the
tigers and the csmeiopards aud the hyenas.
and the fierce snakes and the dromedaries,
the crocodiIcs, and all the bad butterflies
including tho Incorporate iuch.worms and
tho impacable doodle,bugs, assailed that
lonely mau in his chiIdIess hut. Aud thew
gnawed and they clawed and they paved and
they chawed they ramped and thew cham
ped and they tramped; they yelled believed
and howted. until tho stout, wifeless hut
trembled in every limb
But the bold NledoOdlins was a woodsmsp
bold. lie sat lost in Thought while thew
gnawed and chawed. "If / don't do soma.
thing pretty Immediately quick" he said,
''they will cat me up Aud again he was
lost in thought, because he thought he was
lost. At last he fetched himself mighty
slap upon the precipitous brow of his cocoa.
nut and exclaimed. "Hah have it. On
my top shelf is kcg of giant powder, each
grain OF which will split an earthquake.
LII take that down, put it on the floor, fix
slow match to it, open my door and let in
the urgent assassinating beasts that incouve,
nlence me. And when they get to ramping
around and looking up the chimney for me
they II be sure to pull somo Goals out of tho
fireplace aud set fire to the slow match. And
the slow match will say 'psit.' .psit' as tho
fire goes along toward tho keg of giant pow>
der. 1t will fzz, whiz, sizz and big. and
when it says biz it means business-the
keg will go of aud so will mine enemies, for
they will be much gone"
And the bold Medoodlins did even as he
said. lie opened his front door, and pro.
PEELED himself by fierce, flying leap out of
his high back window, for he had made II
high up from the ground in order that the
catsmount and the ravening pecker wood
might not glare upon him. Aud ho fed into
the deepest, darkest depths of the dismal.
dreary and deliberate forest, and pcrched
himself in the top of tall outrageous tree.
to await results, for he was a childless, wife>
less, lonely man. And while the beasts were
rnmplng, aud tramping and looking up the
chimney they kicked some Goals out and set
fire to the slow match, which whizzed. and
hzzed, and sized, and bizzed until il. came
to the keg of giant powder, each grain of
which will split an earthquake. Then there
was loud Bur-doo>ee ! and tho whole face
of the place, for tho space of about three
quarters of mile, was spattered with burnt
blood, brains, ears, eyeballs, jaw bones tails,
toenalls, knee pans, elbows, chimes, iowls'
spareribs, &c, together with a miscellaneous
smell of sulphur and scorched skin. which
was warning forever after to them that had
participated in the molestation of the lone.
chlldiess, wifeless McdoodIins.
But the lonely MedoodIins. sitting in tbs
top OF his tall, outrageous tree, fetched him
self another slap upon the forepart of his
capaclous cocoanut and said, .'Now I am
worse off than was before, for nv stout hu,
ls gone and have no place to sleep unless
l sleep like flying squirrel or the dream7
ouLhnch IN his hours of ease But am =
woodsman bold. i know what IN do. III
slide down this tree, bic me to the hauu,,
OF men, and marry bue-eyed girl named
Which he did, and that was the Last o,
Medoodllns- He wasn't bold any more.
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