The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-08-26

victuals they ever ct. and they set me free
and made me royal cook, and the chief
kinder smiled i~ndulgently al the way
Cgogina was maxim up to me. So you
see the small-sized cooker saved nv
life
'I1l buy the small size" said the
rector, hastily. Il have a sermon to
write"
Now you just take mr. advice and
git q meium size. You can afford it.
When ron take that ~small-sized cooker
round to hat young lady you're after,
when you ask her to marry you what-n
she think? Why. she'll say to herself
that in buyin' this small cooker you are
layin' u no. to ever have any com
pany TO meals, and if she is a girl that
Is fond of company, you're runnin' a
risk Wait till | tell you how the mejum-
sized cooker saved my life. Well. The
old witch doctor took a big dislike &c
me. and kept tellin' the folks that ]
would make a better meal cooked than
/ would cookin'- Ugogina wanted &c
marry me. and the chief was within,
but the witch doctor p~rophesied a lot of
calamities if the marriage took place.
and scared the chief. Now / didn't
want to marry Ugogina, but l could see
that if | did l would be saved from
bein' ct: but / thought / would try tc
save myself and get out of the marriage
also. | could have run off to sea
any day, but there warn't nc
boats could cao Sb;pc ~Sa;I;p- h- zr;4x
often. but there warn't no way to git
III to EN- decided to fix the witch
doctor first got Ugogina to wheedle
the old Teller to give me my mejum-
sized cooker, the small-sized not bein'
large enough for my purposes Then |
got a 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 NV
new vaporiZed atmospheric air, and
told him TO put his mouth to the reeds
and suck some in. You know, If you
have studied chemistry. that beans are
highly charged with gas. Especially is
this r u of the genuine African bean.
Well. sir, that old chap swallered a lot
of that gas. and quicker than a wink
Ugogina and knocked him over and
plastered his nose and mouth up with
clay, and I'm a dummed liar If that gas
didn't float that old Teller right up In
the air, clear out of sight. You see, he
was remarkably capacious. and the gas
was remarkably strong-remarkably
strong. l stood there in front of the
people when he was foatin' in the air.
and told 'em l vas a magician, and
could set 'em all hoatin'. They was
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 at
once: but i STAYED her off for a time by
sayin' l wanted to git my t~rousseau
ready. That's how the mejum-sized
cooker saved my life"
Il will buy a medlum-sized one" said
the rector, family. 1T can be used by
St Margaret's ward of the guild church
fairs"
"Or country fairs, either. However.
| think you would like the large-sized
cooker for the church fairs. But you
wait till l finish my story. Now. l was
engaged to q girl in the United States.
Ii married Ugogina what would be
the consequences? Breach of promise
suit for ten thousand dollars, and me
with no assets but three sample cookers
of block tin. What then? Default of
payment, states prison for life. sides,
| didn't want to marry Ugogina- What
did | do? Well, sir, one day / see a
ship goin by. and, stretchfn' out the
large-sized cooker-they are all air
Tight jumped on it and padded off
to the ship, poundin' on the small and
all the way to scare sharks.
how the large-sized cooker saved
my life"
Put me down for the large SIZE"
said the rector of st. Bartholomew's,
YEARLY.
Il knowed you would" said the mild
hammered man with the soft, low voice.
There's something affectin' in the
story of how them cookers saved NV
life. "-Wardon Allan Curtis, in Har-
per's Weekly.