Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-10-06
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me up somewhere mighty high. new
er said word. What was the use?
couldn't see or move. All I could do
was to hear, and didn't like the sound
Of the things l heard very we'll. There
was a buZZing and tapping noise above
my head as if hundreds of birds were
flying round and round, and there was
an awful kind Of tame something like
! the siren fog whistle, over on the point,
only suddener and shortener and lots
awfuller, and then the fellows that
were lifting me were breathing fast
and kind Of granting, and | was think
ing thed let me fall every minute, and
| didn't know where I'd fall to or what
I'd do when l got there.
ala Ba Fan stopped laughing all at
once. He yelled like anything. Lift,
foolsr he said, and the men who were
carrying me lifted. Ladders, laddersp
whopped Ala Ba Fan, and heard them
all running and Juggling and pulling
and dragging and l heard the wings
rustling and apping and the awful toot
footing, like TO set me crazy, and all at
once the men carrying me stopped jab-
berlng in their fire wOrshipping lingo
and took long breaths, and I took a long
bretah, and then they began TO climb
something, and l could tell by the
sound thta the something was a ladder,
and all at once, plOuf, they dropped
me.
when felt them so l gripped my
tongue in my teeth, so as not TO yell
and tickle Ala Ba Ian, but l didn't drop
far after all. 1 just kind of SAB, and
the thing / sat on was q sort OF soft and
feathery like a nest Of kittens.
Come says ! to myself, this ain
so bad. Maybe this is just one OF those
ireworshipping jokes Then thought
I saw. No says l myself, it amt a
Joke at all: it's an anitiation. This is
some high up lodge. Alas letting me
| in TO make for staying mad so long.
1 was just going TO say something klhu
Of iokey to Ala when he hoilered, Ley
him see and someone grabbed me ana
united my eyes and / saw / looked
aronudD for Ala Ba Zan He was way
own on the ground, looking up at me
with the hatefulest grin l ever saw.
He took off his turban and made a low
! saJaam. Then he said long lingo III
freworshippers' talk and it meant, On
bird. this Is the wretch who stole your
ego. Take him to your nest upon the
tree and there let him repent.
"T0ct tCot. loot. went the aWlui
whistle Ala Ba Z2n hollered again.
"Release him." he said, ana there
was noise like big chains a-clanbing
| and the thing 7 sat on began 10 move
and the first thing [ knew Aia ga Gan
and the fellow that selZeu me "eIe
miles away and L was just a-zippihs
through the air. TO-.
"Tben | knew what was the matter
with me. was sitting on roc
hacl, and I was tied, and he was lying
FASTER than any electric car that ever
whizzed. r,.od,,
a rock" echoed Jimmie Kennedy
What do you mean?
"a roc is a bird" said the new mem
her Hes bigger'n fifty thousang
eagles. and there's room on MS PACK
for eeyon men to ride if they sat III q
row. tandem fashion ,s
"Vveu 7 was dizzy and sick, just as II
had been out in a whiteal, beyond the
| heads with a heavy sea on, and WISH
ed I had eaten something Desiues Va
con and eggs for breakfast kept my
ewes shut for awhile, and then / open
ed them kind Of gradual, one at time'
| till / got used to 1t.
'The old roc flew on the level Tor q
while and then I could look down and
coo blue stuff. and | knew that must be
water. and green stuff, and | knew that
ms land and I saw something shiny,
wav down near the ground, and knew
that was the diamond knobs on the top
Of the palace. They weigh down the
tiles there with diamonds, stead Of
rocks.
MY legs were tied around his body
and my arms were tied behind my back.
I'd have been quite easy when I got
used to the dizziness if my arms hadn {
been tied. That made me mad. They
ached like fln, and / kept trying TO
Jerk them loose, but the more / jerked
the tighter the strings tied. so I just
| leaned back against a big bunch of
feathers that grew at the bottom of his
wings and took it as easy as / could.
An at once he rose straight up in the
| air. Gee whiz. 1t was awful You
| KNOW now YOU lttl NJ lrM YOU UItAIl
YOU are falling. Well. this was just
| like that, only worse, cause there was
no way to get used to it.
"Up. up. up we went, and I shut my
eyes and said good-by. All at once I
felt something brush my face Il felt
just as If I was q kid and my mother
was washing my face with a wet rag.
I looked and there we were right in the
midst Of the clouds. They were wet as
sops and kind Of sDungy. They were
pretty good old things just the same.
81 bit a piece out of a big white fell
low and Il tasted kind of good and
chevy, and lemonady. l don't know
how the lemon taste got into it. but it
was there all right, and that's all
cared. But pretty soon the blessed old
bird few out OF the clouds and kept go
ing higher and higher, till l nearly
froze to death, and then he went higher
vet. and l almost friZzled with the heat
| and whenever I'd groan he'd set up his
awful old foot, toot, toot
at last he kinder began TO settle. ]
didn't care much what he did by that
! time. so I Just shut my eyes and got
good and sick. All at once l felt one
of nv hands move I wiggled it lit
tie. and, sir, it pulled right away from