The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-09

thing you could do, unless it is tohold Cora,
the baby" t1'ff>
She gave me chair and put the baby in
my lap. IL looked up in nay face and COM
menced crying, and didn't know what to
do. he
She said: "Can you whistler
Says l: Eyes, ina'am."
Then you'll have to whistle to il, shy s
she. ''usr i'f
1t took me some time before could get
started. Then the little thing looked up In
my face and laughed / thought that was
better than sowing or going TO sea; but il |
stopped q little, baby would begin CRYING as
hard as she could, and | had all could do
to keep it in my lap. l wished that had
never come here, but 1 was broke and had
to put up with it. Sometimes | would
slight my whistling. 1t seemed as if when
left out one note that baby would begin
crying again as bard as it could. | will say,
right here. that it Yves the crossest baby
ever saw in my life.
Since then / have had family Of nv
own, but never whistled to my babies. nor
let my wife do so, for was afraid I'd have
to whistle all the time.)
l stayed there one week, aud all | did
after l got done with the mornings sowing
was TO whistle to the baby. l got up at 5
o'clock in the morning, and just as got
downstairs the farmers wife would hand
me the baby and say: ~ guess you'd better
hold it." I'd hold it till at night. and
mourn all day for the deep blue rolling
ocean. | used TO- begin by whistling
Yankee Doodle,Y and from that went
through all the tunes to the "Doxologv,n
and then back to Yankee Doodle" Some
may think had chance to reSt when 1t
was asleep, but i'll stopped one minute it
would wake up aud begin crying again.
One day she (the farmers wife) asked me
to go out to the stack and I'LL bedtickwith
straw. I started out and did this work and
had nearly gotten back when she yelled at
me: Hurry up, the baby Is cryiugm 1t
took me ten minutes of hard whistling be-
fore could quiet it (the baby, not the tick
down. Then began to think that if this
was the only way,I could make my living
ashore would prefer going to sea. said
SO to the farmer.
He thought he might, If 1 would stay a
few days, give me something different to dc,
but he never did. My lips were sore and all
puckered from whistling, and guess they
have never got back into shape
At last | said TO MIN: 81 guess I'll
leave. u
Said he Eyes, think you'd better go
away. Pm going into town tonight. You
can ride with me or wait and 60 Tomorrow.
have done just as l agreed to do. PROM
it to you. l wish had something that YOU
could do. but can's afford to pay a man to
take care Of one baby at 81 80 q day. 1t is
too much. II had two babies I'd hire Won
to whistle to 'em all the time
so he paid me and went to Walla Walla
that night. l was the happlest man in the
world to get away. / made up my mind
that l never would whistle again in my life.
When got to the hotel the proprietor
pulyo I'D rA,oN-, haA 80 l.
story. He called in all OF his friends, aud
wanted me to tell it to them just as It was.
The house was full l guess it was 3 o'clock
in the morning before they went to bed.
The next day there was a paragraph in
the paper about the sailor who had hired
out TO work on a ranch and was set to work
to whistle to the haby.
1 thought l had better get out of the
country, for couldn't live there III peace.
The next day, whenever went out on the
street, little boys would ch so me around
and shout, there goes the whistler" The
police had TO stop them from yelling at me-
| would have given anything in the world
il had never seen the place, but l was
anchored and had TO stop awhile.
One night | rugged up and went 70 Charlie
Roses theRter. l sat down close TO the
stage. There was a girl singing on the
stage, Some one must have told her of me,
for when she was almost done, she said: 80,
if l could whistle like that felleRn and
pointed her finger at me. was mad enough
to shoot her, but the audience commenced tc
shout and stamp. The proprietor had tC
coll in the police to make them keep quiet.
| managed to get out Of the house.
l went back and told the proprietor had
to get out Of the country; that l couldn't
live there in peace So packed my things
and walked to Wallula that night, from
there to Portland, and, in few days, wa
lucky enough to get ship to Australia.
l haven't whistled since