Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-10-11
GAME ON ARAFAT,
The BAD Boys Idea of the Noachian
Deluge.

II don't see how it is that the minister
is down on you so, said the grocery man.
.Ie was in here this morning to get
trusted for a number three mackercl, and
he said he would walk around block
any time rather than meet you, because
you asked him so many questions that he
couldn't answer. What have you been
asking him lately?'
"Oh, only wanted to get little light
on catching. He is paid salary to en-
tighten his congregation, and he always
wants us to ask questions, but lately he
has turned me away with a soft answer
I asked him if he didn't think Mount
Ararat would have been boss place to
hunt just after Captain Noah turned all
the game loose, aud the water was high
so you could sneak right up on to ele-
plants, and tigers, and chipmunks, and
fox-squirrels, and the minister, who had
been telling pa what a boss time he had
last winter hunting deer mp in Michigan
got offended and told pa he better dismiss
me with boot don't know as it would
be any more harm to hunt deer on Mount
Ararat along about 2,349 years b. C.
than it would now though they nigh,
have had game law that would protect
the game on account of there being only
limited supply. But | suppose tn,
game would have been very poor, 'causc
it had been shut up in the ark long
time without food and the captain of the
ark full Of bug juice
"Hold on now, boy, don't be bearing
false witness against thy neighbour said
the grocery man, Mortified at the remarks
of the boy. "There is no record that
Noah had anything to drink on the ark
Give Noah his dues, whatever you dc"
swell maybe you are right, but as
understand it he had a terrible appetite
for intoxicating fluid on shore, and one
would suppose if he didn't have bar on
the yacht he would have strapped a coup
lie of jugs on the mules when they went
aboard, and he must have known it was
going to be long and tedious cruise and
very lonesome, and if he had anything
stimulating on board he took nip occas-
ianally. And you couldn't blame him.
Everybody's appetite is better when sail
Ing, and Noah had to run the boat night
and day, and it wouldn't be strange If he
spliced the main brace BY lingo, |
should think that Noah would have got
sick Of managerie, and been mighty
glad when he struck the top of the noun
tain and turned them loose, and when the
water went down, and the animals went
sliding down hill, falling over each other
'" "ho tspbu IidCo W ulUDlc grass, IL
must have been picnic to Noah. But
what do you suppose the lions found to
cat? They live on meat, and as there
were only two animals of kind they had
to wait until some more small animals
could be arised before they could eat,
cause if they cat any animal that settled
it, and there wouldn't never be any of
those animals on earth. Say, don't you
think those lions had pretty good control
over their appetites not to make mince
meat of the other animals? How do you
account for the fact that all those animals
lived without anything to eat?n
"Oh, l don't know. You make me
tired. | don't wonder the minister can t
get along with you. Maybe Noah took
along fresh meet enough to last the lions
year, and baled hay for the elephants
and girailes and cattle. Fix it any way
you want to. Darned if l know anything
about it" said the grocery man.-Nil