The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-24

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risk. Wait till I tell you how the mejum-
sized cooker saved my life. Well, the
old witch doctor took big dislike to
me, and kept tellin' the folks that
would make better meal cooked than
] would cookin'. Ugogina wanted to
marry me, and the chief was willin',
but the witch doctor prophesied lot of
calamities if the marriage took place,
and scared the chief. Now ! didn't
want to marry Ugogina, but could see
that if did would be saved from
bein' ct; but thought would try to
save myself and get out Of the marriage
also. I could have run off to sea
any day, but there warn't no
boats. could see ships sailin by quite
often, but there warn't no way to git
off to 'em. decided to fix the witch
doctor first. got Ugogina to wheedle
the old felleI to give me my mejum-
sized cooker, the small-sized not bein'
large enough for my purposes. Then
got lot of African beans and some
hollow reeds and some sticky clay. |
set the beans a cookin' and put the
reeds into a little hole made in top of
the cooker invited the witch doctor
in, and told him this was some of M
new vaporized atmospheric air, and
told him to put his mouth TO the reeds
and suck some in. You kLow, if yol
have studied chemistry, that beans are
highly charged with gas Especially is
this true of the genuine African bean.
Well, sir, that old chap swallered a lot
of that gas, and quicker than a wink
7 h Il
plastered his nose and mouth up with
clay, and I'm dummed liar if that gas
didn't float that old feller right up III
the air, clear out of sight, You see. he
was remarkably capacious. and the ga
was remarkably strong-rcmarkab
strong. stood there in front of the
| people when he was foatin' in the air.
and told 'em | was a magician, and
could set em all floatin' They wa.
scared; wanted to elect me chief; but
wasn't used to high political honors
and compromised with alderman and
president of the school board. Well
sir, Ugogina was dyin' to marry me al
once; but l STAYED her off for time by
sayin' ] wanted to git my troussear
ready. That's how the mejum-sizeC
cooker saved my life
~ will buy medlum-sized one," sale
the rector, family. 1T can be used b,
st. Margaret's ward of the guild churcl
fairs"
''Or country fairs, either. However
1 think you would like the large-sizet
cooker for the church fairs. But yo
wait till finish my story. Now, wa
engaged to girl in the United States
If married Ugogina what would b
the consequences? Breach of promis
suit for ten thousand dollars. and M
with no assets but three sample cooker
of block tin. What then? Default O
payment, states prison for life. sides
I didn't want to marry ugogina. Wha
did do? Well, sir, one day | see
ship goin by, and, stretchin' out tn
large-sized cooker-they are all ali
tight jumped on it and padded o1
to the ship, poundin on the small an
mejum"sized all the way to scare sharks
That's how the large-sized cooker save
my life"
) Put me down for the large size,
said the rector of St. bartholomew.
wearily.
~ knowed you would" said the milo
hammered man with the soft, low voic,
"There's something affectin' in tn
story of how them cookers saved m
life. "-Wardon Allan Curtis, in Ha
per's Weekly.