Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-03-14
(Conlinued from last week
DEATH AND ADVENTURES OF
DANIEL McGlNTY, ESQ.
Evolved from the Imagination of
Jerry Coe and Dedicated to
the Teachers of America.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER III.
DESCENT OF McGINTY.

Down went McGlnty! What became
of O'Flarity we DO not know. That is
the fault of history but so far as this story
IS concerned it will make but little differ
ence.
To say that Mack was surprised would
be putting it very mildly indeed. 1t was
me nearest approach to bath that he
lad had since the night when he fell
from a twelfth street ferry boat in a
slight exhilarated condition. (That is to
say McGinty, not the boat, was returning
from meeting of the Patriotic American
Society,"
History is also at fault in saying that
McGinty went to the bottom. There
was no bottom; besides he did not
go directly downward. Instead he shot
off to seward at an angle of sixty degrees
and kept that course for several hundred
leagues going at the rate of a mile a
minute if not faster.
If the reader be at all iucredulous con-
corning the events narrated herein, let
him remember that the objects to be
attained are also well nigh impossible
and that we are looking forward many
years into the dim future. The events of
the past century would appear equally
marvellous if viewed in the uncertain
light of the dark ages.
When McGinty struck the water on
that pleasant Sunday morning he real
lied great change was coming over him.
All the events of his life passed in review
before his mind. He saw them all in the
twinkling of an eye and apparently sat in
judgment on his own conduct. It was
wonderful what a keen appreciation he
had OF all his past misdeeds. He thought
OF all the dogs he had stoned, the boys he
had kicked, the teachers he had snubbed
and the schools he had visited-on paper.
Last but not least he thought of his
recent political schemes and actions and |
Immediately he shrank into the proper
tions of crowbar which was still further /,
decreased by the immense pressure of the
water at the great depth to which he had |
attained and his progress was very much
facilitated thereby. He was still con-
scious and observant. In the fast fading
light he discovered strange forms about |
him. Some were so small that drop of |
water contained millions of them. Others
appeared like mountains of flesh but soft
as pulp held together by the density of
the water only. There were long snaky
figures with fins, acres and acres in ex-
tent. Straight ahead of him he saw q
fish with an eye as large as a Walden
pond which gathered together all the
rays of light for miles around.
At it he went headlong; in at one eye
and out at the other. The lens Of the
eye, true to its nature, detected him from
his course. He turned straight down.
ward. From this time on all was dark
ness. (For both McGinty and the fish,
The water was growing warmer as he ad-
vanced. It was getting decidedly hot.
He thought he was nearing the internal
regions. So far as this world is con-
cerned McGinty was dead.
Hoping that my reader is now prepared
to believe whatever 1 may tell him I
promise that these trivial adventures will
be
Continued next week.