Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-12-06

| on tne cnicken rOOSl, anu tnen L matte
speech to her in Indian. l said. The
pale faced maiden from the rising sun is in
the hands Of the Apaches, and they YEAR,,
for gore. Her brothers and fathers end
uncles, the Indian agents, have robbed the
children of the forest of their army blankets
and canned lobster, aud the red man must
be avenged. But we will no, harm the
pretty white maiden. except to burn her at
the stake. What has she to say ? Will
she give the red man taffy or will she burn p
J just then pa came out with a cisternspole
and he rescued the white maiden and said
We mustn't be so rough. Then the girl said
she would give us all the taGy we wanted.
and she went IN, and she and ma watched
us from the back window Pa he watched
US rob coach and he said it was frstrate.
| Tue man that collects the ashes from the
alley, with horse and wagon, he had lust
loaded up and got on the wagon, when two
of my Indians took the horse by the bits,
and four of us mounted the wagon and
robbed the driver of clay pipe and pocket
comb and knife, but he saved his ashes by
! promising never to reveal the names of the
robbers. Pa just laughed when we gave the
ash man back his knife and things and said
he hadn't had so much fun in u long time.
Then we were going to lasso wild Texas
steer and ride 1t, the way they did in the
show, and pa said that was where he came
IN handy He said he could throw lasso
just like cowboy. We got my chum's
! pas COW out Of the barn, and drove her
up the alley, and pa stood there with a
clothesine. with II big moose rin the end.
and he headed off the COW and threw the
lasso. Well, you'd dde to see pa
sweep things out of the alley with his
| pants. The COW was sort of scared when
We drove her up the alley, cause guess
she thought 1t was time she was MIXED, and
when pa stepped from behind the barrel and
throwed the rope around her neck guess
she thought It was all day with her, for she
turned and galloped, and kicked up and
bellered, and pa did not know enough to let
so OF the rope. First pa followed the COW
down the alley sitting down, and about
oushe OF ashes got up his trousers legs, and
the tomato cans and old oyster cans flew
around like cyclone was blowing. Us
lnJns climbed up on the fences to get out of
the way, and that scared the COW more, and
she snatched pa along too quick. yelled
TO pa TO let go OF the rope and Just as the
COW drawed HIM under a wagon he let 60
and the cow took the clothes-line home. Pa
got up and shook the ashes out of his
trousers legs and picked up piece of board
and started back. You never saw A tribe
OF Indians get scared so quick as we did
AS went IN the hen coop and got under a
barrel heard pa say That busts up the
Buffalo Bill business. No more wild west
ern steer lassoing for your uncle Ike Well,
no one was to blame but pa. He thinks he
can do anything, and when he tries and gets
tangled he lays it to ne. We went out on
the street with our tomahawks, when pa
went IN to brush himself, and disbanded,
and went Oh to our reservation, and peace
reiSns again, and the Boston girl has gone
home with an idea that we are all heathens
out west
Il should think your pa would learn
after while, that he is too old to fool
around as he did when he was boy," said
the groceryman, as he got away from the
boy for fear he would be scaped.
"lhat's what told him when he wanted
to try my BICYCLE said the boy, as he broke
out laughing. "He saw me riding the
bicycle, and said he could do it as we'll as |
could, II he could once get on, but he couldn't
/ spring upon 1t quite as spry as he used to,
and ne wanted me and my chum to hold it
while he got on told him tie would get
| hurt, but he said there couldn't no bov tell
bim anything about riding, and so we got
the bicycle up against shade tree and he
put his feet to the treadles, and told US to
] turn her loose. Well, honest, | shut nv
eyes cause didn't want to get pa tied up in
/ knot. But he did. He pushed with one
/ foot and the bicycle turned SIDEWAYS then
ne pushed with the other foot and it began
/ to wIggle. and then he pushed with both
feet and pulled on the handles, and the front
wheel struck an iron fence, and as pa went
on top Of the fence the hind wheel seemed to
rear up and kick him, and pa hung to the
fence and the bicycle hung to him, and they
both went down on the sidewalk, the big
wheel on pas stomach one handle up his
trousers leg. the other down his coat collar.
and the other wheel rolling around back and
forth over his fingers, and he Yelling to us
to take It off. | never saw two people
tangled up the way pa and the bicycle was,
and we had to take it apart and take pas
coat off and roll up his pants to get him
out. And then he got up and shook him
self TO see if he was all there, and looked at
1t as though he didn't know it was loaded.
and looked at me and then at my chum in a
sort OF nervous way, and looked around
and scrlnged as though he expected.the
bicycle was going to steal up behind him and
4 kick him again. He wanted ME to 90 and
| get the axe to break the bicycle up with, and
when laughed he was going to take me by
4 the neck and maui the bicycle, but | reason
ed him out of it. wasn't TO blame for his
| trying to gallop over an iron picket fence
| with bicycle cause told him he'd better
| keep off of ii. think if men would take adj
! vice from boys oftener they wouldn't be so
apt 10 get their suspenders caught on an iron
| picket fence and have to be picked up in
/ basket. But there is no use of us bows tell
ing grown person anything, and by keep
ing still and letting them break their bones
we save getting kicked. 1t would do
some men good to be boys all their lives,
/ then they wouldn't have to initiate.
! Hello, there goes the police patrol wagon,
and am going to see how it rides on the
back step And the boy went out and
jumped on the hind end Of the wagon, and
then picked himself up out of the mud and
felt CT bis head where the policemans club
dropped on it -PeckS Sum
--John>ton's recent mile in 2lO, the per
tormance Of which placed him at the head Of
The list OF trotters and PAGERS, has led to a
comparison of the records of the two WAYS
Of gong. 1t appears that from the wear
1910 to 1867. the PAGERS carried off the palm,
the best record Of the side whcelers being
| 2l1 -. made by Pocahontas, but in 1867
Dexter trotted in 2.l1 IA, and for the first
time the trotting record was the fastest.
The trotters held this position for two years
when the DarerS arain went In rho FRONT ,,J