Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-11-20
Back From salt Creek.
REcKs ALONG THE SHo'-FANToM KRAFT
AND INvIsIBUL KRU.
ON DECK, Nov. Is, 1855.


OK DECK, Nov. Is, 1886.
Mtstur Editur:--When yu'nns aud We.
uns got TIA the hedwaters we didn't tarry
long. Thar was no room fur the 'noiuted;
the Kalifornians, the Indyaniani and the
Jerseyans of publikan persuasion KINDER
tux up the front setes, and lef very little
room fur the demmykratlc cru from Berke-
ley. / seed tho that sum was Virginians
that he'd gud places Thar wus FIJI SDy-
der, from the third district, who WIS dun
up pretty tolebul Brown Then thcr wus
Hutchinson, who wus penned up by Hogg.
He wus in u hog-pen He intens to rute
hog or di; an l guess he'll di. The sites
were very interestin, an l Wud heY lln-
gered longer, but didn't longer linger, as
our cook sed that the tripe he'd awl Civ
OUT so we sot sale for hum
/ inioved the trip down Salt Creek more
than did the trip up, and the picturesque
scenery wus very comfortin. There wus
a crate menny recks of "a an So along
the sho. l seed one bote which wus tn
affeetin fur ennything. Thar she wus,
bottom side up, an a big hole in her starn;
tilot at fust it wus the hole whar Mister
Flick he'd holed hiZ man; but when lux
ed closer soon seed that the hole he'd BIN
made by a Lemon. 1t was sartinly VOL
liper and had to laf real loud when seed
the name of the bote. Thar it wus in big
letters: "SliperyLM Miller" And i seed
it wunce more, and the secund time 1t Nus
marked: "patent piled fur IN 1885," and
the name wus nearly awl gon; but the hole
wus thar just as big as life, and lookin' tor
awl the world as If some big animule he'd
made il, and it wus so, fur thar as plain as
ennythlng were the hoof-marks OF mare,
and / sed to myself, Mare Lambert did IL
with hiz little foot. 1t was a solemncholy
scene! ! wud hev gazed longer, but Bob
Criswell wus tn anxious to get home to
hiz loved wuns, and menny of the boys
were sayin' to each other what wus wunce
sed by the Gunner of North Kariny to the
Gunner Of South Karliny, so we pulled fur
the sho We sailed down Dry Run very
saieingly, and were startled awi most out
of our boots by SEEM a piratikal kraft with
big black sales comm down on our lee
bows And such singin' as they did du !.
Why, it wus worse than mine. They wus
singin Their bottle-bymn, and it wus terri
{ fyin'
ssDot leetle Sherman band,
Dot leetle Sherman band,
Dot don't schmell so sweet,
When it gets beat,
BY Wilson's jolly CLAM
Well, when | herd that, ! sed tn our
Captain thar wus the fantom ship and the
Sherman invisibul cru, and he at wunce
sed; "Heye tu!'' and they heyed-and
when they got close tn our kraft they Wus
the sickest loolSin' cru that wus ever seen.
| believe if our captain he'd tole them tn
heve tn hundred, they would hev done IT.
They looked sick enuff tn heye up thar i'm
mortal soles, and pc Grant Pitzer, he look
ed as if he wud liked TIL hev heved up hiz
proclamashun / looked in yanei fur the
man who wanted tn be Senatur, but found
he he'd no chans OF Getting-erth this time, but
he war no whar to be seen. Mister Flick
wus thar and over biz he'd wus Il banner
with the strange device: ~ Chorus Flick
tory but it WINS a sham and should hey
red ga Crate Af-Flick-ton," Thar Wus
Mister Miller who KEEP hiZ blind side tt