The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-09
IMPORTATION WILL DO.

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  WHAT IMAGINATION WILL DO. (reeks San-l
 A man vhc has heen drinking pretty hard foE . year or mcee, and who had walking aeoaf n the vicinity of hos | pit1l recently, and nan uho knew him and has watched his downward courss. and knew he must have had Jim Jams, went up to him and entered into con- versxtion. The drunkard said tAas he had had . fearful vaming, and must have ben vssy sick. but he had unda- gone an experience that had taught him q lessoa. and he should neses drink again. The flend asked him to relate his experiences, and he did, as follows:
 "You see, had been fall for year og more, until vas on the verge q d0liSism uemens, and my friends, who arc pretty we'll o6, advised nc to 70 out to one q the summer resortA and brace up. Thsy said could go fishing and Aavs good time Well, do like to 6sh. For . week before vent away had noticed circus bills on all the bill boards, on which was . picture of two Aippopoea- muses in the water, with their mouths vide open, and got te thinking bow t would scare man, to be out uolling tor pickeEel, and get hippopotamus on his hook. laughed when | shought of t and couldn't keep it od my mind. vent out to summer resort, noas . lake, to brace up, and hired fellow to 70 out and row boat Cor me. He didnt know the condition ] was in, and whan told him to take me where there vas good hippotamus fishing, he laughed and said he could take me right on the ground where . Chicago man caught ten 6ns hippopotamusos and . rhinocesos only . couple of days be6ors, and . Ss. Louis man caaxh. a mes oi sss lioas Rless me if didn't tremble whsa the man talked %. actually believed t, asd while tried so i.ssh at the idea of catch- ing such things in . Wisconsin lake, l actually shivsrsd when threw in spoua hook, expecting to see at least . sea-lion grab is. O, vas bad, l tsll you. l trolled along for half mile, end became nervous every time weed would catch my hook, and the man who was roxing me began to get sxcited as jumped around in the boat. Pretty ,,oon some thing caught my hook. gusss it was . log. and the folks who got the hook tho next day said 1t was caught on . stump or something, but ss quick as 1t sszuck the hook l could sse hippoposamus come to the surface with its mouth opGa, as plain as l can ses that houss over there. l jumped up in the boat and shouted to the man that had got hip- popotamus, and he yelled to me to cit down or would tip the boat over, bat stood up and pulled on my hippopota- mus, and could sec it nearing the boat, struggling, and lashing the water. lwas scared, but was bound to land my fish. and described 1t to the man rowing for me, and told him to get ready with cir GUS tent for landing net, to scoop it in the boat could see the man was fnghtened, as got the animal near the boat He looked at me as though vas the wort case he had evW talen out kshisg. Finally got tho hippopotamus night up scar the boss, iu ny imagisa- ton, ard was telling the man to hit t oo the head with an oar, when the man dropped tAs oars and jumped out q the boat and started to swim ashore. l looked altes him, and while my back vas turned the hippopotamus had oawisd in- to the boat, aad with its mouth open, and the spoon hook caught in iss upper lip, vas wiling to catch . hippopoeamrs e it ssassd me ! gave yell a.d jumped and was Aoaadsring aroasd, trying to get away fum it, when boas loa1 ol tsll0ws from the hossl piched me up. told thsm about the hippopotamus, and txisd se sAow t so them following us in the wassE, but tAsy would not bsiisve 1t, and thsy sook me to the hoesl, and sent me to tks Aospital undsnsood they dsagged the lake for the body Of the .man vho vas with me, but a fsv days aftesward thsy got . dispatch from him somswhse ia Illinois, selling thsm to sond his trunk down thsse. euess hs sos adhere and .svss stopped running until be got to Illinois. The landlord says it is hard to ret . man to 70 out rowing fog fisherman vho icols red in the face, e thsy think he is liable to sse hippcpotnmuses Wen, that vas two weeas ago, and l an bselsr nov ; bat l shall nevW tDuch insox3caiing iquoss again, and want to Fl cut Of this hos. pital and % around Ssaring down all tho circus bills that have rot picturss of hip popotamuses ou. It is wrong to fTighssa drunkasds tAat vay.
 The American Summer.
 | lBuziington Hawkeys.l
 Yoa Q to . sumner hossl down by tho sounding ssa es away up in the browning mouufains. Well, thare comss . day Eaw, foggy, cold, the mercury drops