Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-11

proceeded ut once to set them off. There 10
! one street in Malvern, and II is outright
! up a hill. We set our skyrOckets gong
/ plumb up that hill as fast as We could
/ touch 'em of. When we commenced there
Were horses and wagons tied in front OF
eYerv store i'm the street.
/ '''F-s-s-s-s-h-h-h, Whlz! Bang" would
I go a rocket and snap would 20 halter
strap or two, and in less than three min
utes there was nothing 10 seen IN that
town but runaway horses and mules III
was equal TO a stampede of cattle on the
plains. The more they ran the more we
b0mharded, until there was a stretch OF
fire going up that hill without break IN
II from one end to the other. People were
shouting and bowling from windows.
StOrekeepers came out and put up their
shutters, and il ever there was a red-hoJ
town il was Malvern about that time. Inc
tram we were TO take was about due aJ
the junction then, and the agent OF the
company, who knew me well, managed to
get within speaking distance OF me ana
made me understand that they were or
ganiZiug a committee Of citizens to take
us in and ride us out OF town in way we
didn't care to 20 and we gathered up our
remaining rockets and made for the depot.
The train didn't come minute too soon,
for It had barely pulled out when the com
mittee came sweeping down TO the depot.
Then we fired rockets at them from win
dOws and Platforms and left the town in
a blaze Of glory.
AFTER the rockets were gone | thought
if there was one thing that would maze
me happy it would be 70 kill centipedes,
and, as there were none on the tram, J
fully intended to get off at the next station
and 20 back south somewhere and Kill
centipedes. / afterward changed my
mind, and said would return TO ST. Louis
tirst, get my two dogs, and then 90 TO
Texas and spend week or SO at cent?
pede hunting. When ! got to st. Louis
the pine-tOp was working of, for | hadn I
had IA drop for two days. Still the cent?
pede idea was strong within me. | went
70 my room at the Lindell House and went
70 bed. AS i lay there with the gas
turned very low / saw one side Of slOp-
ing roof obtruds itself through the window
Of my room. On the roof lay a centpede
nearly two feet lOng-about four times the
usual size. 1t was working its hundred
OF hideous legs along, when suddenly it
rolled from the roof and fell with a sound
like big sponge tul! OF water on the floor
IA Dy room. Instantly my two dogs, a
0lack-aDG-tan and skye terrier, buckied
into the centipede. The centipede struck
the blAck-and-tan one blow, and ne Eeeled
over like ten-pin on the floor and began
to swell until he looked Ike Il t0adhsh
with s dogs head. Then the ceutipede
and the skye had it hot and heavy around
the room, but the centipede WIS too much
Tor the dog, and In y minute or SO he was
swelling up, and he 5welled up SO much
that be tlOated up 10 the ceiling, and went
bobbing along against it like you've seen
beetles on summer night. After the
dogs had been settled the centipede rose
up on one end OF himself and made straight
for ne. ! didn't wait for him, bur got out
Of that bed like a flash, and cut out Of the
room Just as quick.
tits probably needless to say that there
was no centipede there at all. 1t was all
plne-top whisky. ! forget how many
doses Of bromide and stun they liked me
up With, but is took "A good many. You
can use your own Judgment, but il ever
you 20 down to Arkansas I'd go light on
Dine-tOp whisky il were YOU"