New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-16
THE CiOVERT0PS AT THE SEA.
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THE CiOVERT0PS AT THE SEA.
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"EvEN1N', Mister Barnaby. Evcnin',
sir. Light an come in won't yc?
Miggles, git Mister Barnaby 3 cheer.
Set ye down, sir. Powerful glad to sec
You; was afraid ye'd be gone back to
| Nashin'ton aforc we come home. Ye
wouldn't hardly a knowed Miggles,
would ye. She's growed awful stylish
! sinst we been down to the sea shore.
An her mother, sir? Well, Pm blest
ef the old lady ain t nigh as bad as the
daughter. The old man appears to be
the only one in the lot that's the same
old fool that he always was, an is glad
to get back toiNodaway County an the
farm.
Eyes, sir, we summerod down to the
sea shore. Miggles has just been wild
to go for more'n three years back an
her mother has kept her agoin'. So
along last July, airlv 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 O couple O.
months or so.
"All the time we was to Boston I
didn't see but one piece of ground bic
enough to put in any kind of crop,
and that was all put down in grass.
Twasn't more nor half cleared, either.
l don't suppose. Mr. Barnaby, thar'll
be three hundred bushels Of corn raised
in all Boston this year.
"We got onto a steamboat thar, an
went down to Maine. Lemme tell YOU,
Mister Barnaby, the Courthouse at
Maryville amt circumstance to that
ar steamboat. Everything so white We
was afeared to touch it, an niggers to
wait on ye at every turn. We had sup
per right after we went on board, an
Of we didn't lay right into the fxin's
thar's no snakes. 1 reckon we Jest
about tired two fellers clar out, carryin'
hot cakes. Then we went out an sot
down an watched the waves rollin' an
tumblin' around. Pleasant? Oh, yes,
Mister Barnaby, it was kind O. pleas
ant, at fust.
'Bime-hy, however, we sort O. quit
talkin' and sot lookin' straight ahead,
Uneasy like. Ma began to look awful.
Ma 1 says, 'ain't you feelin'
well? What appears to be the matter
with you?'
'Well, ma she sayed she didn't jest
know, she didn't feel well, she reck.
oned She d better lay down for while.
An I helped her to our room, an 1
swar to goodness Thought that wom-
an was goin' to die. Out I run agin.
Miggles, I sayed, you'll hcv to
60 an set weth your mother while l hunt
up a doctor, she's -
IAN jest then looked at NIiggles.
8" Je-roo-zalem!'
Essays 1, 'Miggles, what ais YEP
$50 "a she says, Pa, Use awful sick,
l can't hold my head up minnit long
er; don't know what ais me-
swell, holp her to the room where
ma was, and before I could turn around
TO go for a doctor, Mister Barnabv,' sir,
l hope to die ri ght hyar, eff I didn't
catch it 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 N.Y. walls poor Mig
giles, I'm dyin', oh I know I'm dyin'
I'm dyin' l can't live an hour!' Oh
dear, oh dear. It's the ice cream, pa
! she SAYS.
"'By George 1 hollered, I'm a
dead man now, but I'll lay out the man
that killed me fust-I know what the
matter!'
"An' weth that 1 rushed out, or
rether tumbled out of the room, and
set up yell for the Captain. Every
body come runnin' to me, an bime-by
a man all covered with gold tape and
brass buttons wanted to know what was
the matter.
"' Matter enough!' I yells. <sPizen!
Rank pizen, thet's what's the matter!
I'm pizened right on this boat! Me an
my family has been pizened right at
your table, an I want doctor for ma
an Miggles mighty quick!'
"Well, 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 ye amt
| pizened. 1 ct at the same table, says
he, an I amt a bit sick!'
"Well, somehow, his latin rilcd me.
"'Ye can't fool me!' roared; we
can't play no old man Bender on me! [
know pizen when see it workin', an
know 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 yittles!
Says I, this amt no milk sick!' Send
me the doctor for ma and Miggles
mighty quick says l, tell him to run
every step of The way
1.-The Captain he turned around an
as we'll as he could for laffin', fer I
could see he was nearly chokin' weth it,
an told a man to 60 an ask Doctor
Bolus to come here right away.
"'An tell him to fetch his stonmik
pump along!' hollered after him; tell
him to bring along his stommik pump!
The biggest and strongest one he's
got!'
60 An, sir, eff you'd q heered the
passengers an that brute of Captain
yell! They hollered an laft an fell
down on the sofys and helt their sides
an LATED till 1 was mad enough to fight,
on'Y / 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 we'll without
it, he says, an then he breaks out
latin, wuss' n any O. the rest on 'em.
Land of Judgement, Mister Barnaby,
sir, but | was howlin' mad. was that
mad / nigh forgot how sick was, and
the madden got, the wurs they LATED.
Bime-by the doctor he come an sayed
we was only sea sick an they want no
help fer us at all, we'd jest hev to grin
/ 4 ~ =
said, an that's all the doctor done for
| US.
"Well, we was all we'll enough in the
mornin', though I sw'ar I 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 only in the result, for
either one of 'em is thunderin sight
wuss'n the other. But the Captain was
right about the stommik pump; none
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