Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-05-13

with screw and drawing the cork for
look inside. But though the wine of
the gods had been in them, you couldn't
have climbed that bottle. There wasn't
anywhere chance to catch on with fin
gers or toenails. And if there were any
thing harder that the quartz in that pill
lar, dynamite e-makers may be acquainted
with it; I'm not.
Our settlement was proud of its bottle
Dragging about it at barbecues, aud
camp-meetings, and turkey -pullings, and
corn-huskings. We were forever daring
climbers to try their nails, and spurs,
and chisels, and augers on it. Every
stranger that came our way was certain
TO be challenged to try his skill. There
wasn't soul in the settlement but
claimed a share in Bottle Pinnacle, and |
reckon there wasn't shareholder that
didn't take look at 1t every day.
No wonder, then, that on one certain
morning the villagers were running about
before breakfast, calling on one another
to look at an unusual object psrched up
there, on the stopper of Bottle Pinnacle.
Sure enough, there was something up
there. 1t was parti-colored red and yell
low, as far as could be made out. Its
size well, you know it is with the moon.
You can n.ake it seem to you the size of
dinner-plate or as large as the hind
wheel of n lumber wagon. The size of
that object on the stopper was anywhere
from that of butterfly to u calf, accord
ing as you allowed for the distance or
didn't allow.
Z. Most OF the people OF the settlement had
cold breakfasts that morning, OF burnt
biscuits, because Of the disputes they
got into about tie "thing" perched on
the cork, disputes, too, that didn't stop
for weeks. ats shiny like gold.n lit
is gold" "It's gold nugget sticking
out of the quartz" sits no more like
gold nugget than cat Is like cattle. y
"lt's like a face that's up there-there's
a nose as plain as there's nose on your
face" "It's a human iace!" ''iIow IN
reason could a face get up on that stop
per when hands and legs couldn't do Ii
to save their souls" "Nobody means
its u mortal face; It's a ghost.face. "If
we could ouly get up thercl"
The people twisted ani screwed their
brains over plans aud schemes for seal
ing the Bottle Pinnacle. There were
not any bridge builders In tho settle
ment, nor any tower Of Babel architects.
There were no acrobats or gymnasts {,
jump over the moon, OF swing 10 the
stars.
Tie discussions, the exclamations
went on 1--WE might blow MP the pin
nacle aud ind gold mInel" "And
spoil the great natural curiosity OF the
settlement" I'll We had cannon. We
might shoot out the cork II
"TheTe is magnifying glass at tks
VILLAGE dowa the valley; we'll borrow
that, y sad SOME one At last.
The magnlfylng glass vas brought,
and most OF the men and buys from the
village OF the valley eame along 9Th ID.
Tho people pestesed % about their turns
TO look through iLe magnlheF At the oh
iect ON the bottle that guard had o.
stand around tho slass anl lcl IN one
peraon Al a tlne 90 the gaklag. heglunlug
with tha As. THIS made tho waiting
~ and ~ lighting mai,
The remarks weat on s'It's nat :
nnsgell" "lis aot gold 7" s'If a. gold,
~ gold face, Zoe face u isl" "Its
q facet "lss face l''--essFyboay sali.
"lt's llke lhe face al GooFge W, tlillest I"
''iis The ghost oi aeorge w, |" ''lial
he died the day afteg that fzeo teoA az
~ fesidenee ea The slopaeEF "rhe
face looks 4 heap more Ake dFanllna
1uiilssl" cts la 20 speculate about
: ghasl FACET
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