The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-09-14
Don't Know his History.

side for some time, and improved
tho FIRST favorable opportunity to
make his presence felt.
: "Lend mo q quarter, boss" he
. said. "l'm looking for money from
! the east, but tho draft don't seom to
get around as soon as l expected. i
will bo--"
? "That don't wash. Tako II to
the Chinese opium den. Are you a
Journalist ?"
well, no. Two been pretty low
down in this world have seen what
you might coll northwest sidc OF
the sbag back hickory, but, honesty,
never was journalist. I've work,
ed in slaughter house, aud dug
bitches in tho swamp lands of Hi.
nois. md blackoncd boots and ten
ded Turkish bath room bat !
never was a journalist. No, /
"Wevo nothing to-day for you."
"Boss, just believe il you knew
my past history You would feel im-
PEELED to negotiate this loan Of q
quarter. Only a quarter OF a dollar,
rvo had an evontful career, boss,
sure as you are O foot high. My
mother"
Haven't time to listen to your
biography"
Nor That's what I thought.
Well, you see my mother diod whom
was only two-yoar old and
when I was three my father was
knocked oil an oyster sloop by the
main boom when she was II jibling in
Chesapeake bay. That jumbed me
out onto tho woods all alone at a
very tender age, and since then 70
had to rustic like dead cottonwood
in u blizzard. Well
"Now say, il you don't 60 out
we'll got tho foreman to fro you
through tho roof.
"Yes We. got in with on Ital-
ian organ grinding family in New
York, and being small Of my age
and email featured. thoy dyed my
face and hands, sowed tail on tc
mo, rugged mo out in o rod dress
skirt aud blue polonaise, and passed
me OF for monkey. You wouldn
think that to look at mo now, would
you :"
"lf you don't
"Well. OF course Ioutsrow oil such
nonsense rs that, and got to 60 tc
school for couple Of months, ant
played with the worry kids who uset
, to put pennies in my cap when | wal
a monkey. When l got some big
ger I shipped as slush cook on I
whaling brig, aud WAS gone three
years, taking in mighty sight mor'
ocean travel and experlonc than W,
did whales. Whom I came to settle
I up with the captain no figured th'
q account. can ought's an ought
and two's two there amt any oil
coming to you 30 was landed in
Baltimore without sou markoe il
in my jeans. What did I dc
, then ="
snow il"
"Why, you see thero was q circus
e. in town with gorgeous old mauag-
erie, and tho manager OF the con-
, cern had lost his elephant .raine--
run of with the clowns wife-and
1 as Ihad seen some elephant training
, in Calcutta where we laid in for res
pairs for couple of months, ]
l struck him for job, and old Bonn
bastic the best trick elephant which
a ever appeared before tho crowned
heads Of Europe was turned over to
me. The old hide-bound cuss and
-. me got along 6rstSate aud We show
4 cd all over the north west. One oi
his star tricks was for me to lie down
v ard he'd walk over me, Well, one
!. day some sneak OF canvass mar
lgave him quart Of whiskey mixed
9 in about two pounds OF sugar, and
when the afternoon performance
, came on Bombastic was 30 blind
, crazy drunk that he stepped on thai
, hand and mashed it thinner than Q
q greenbaok newspaper. Looks bad
don't II = There Is o whole temper
r ance lecture and a prohibition amend.
ment TO the constitution ID that paw.
, Since then I've never touched q dror
Of liquor, and never will Come,
. boss, know my noso rather gives
me away, but IL you'd had the cry.
|. sipelas for three years and q half
. straight heat, your nose would sugs