The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16
HE SWALLOWED ALIVE MOUSE.
Rev. j. ii. Kelley of Pasadena, Cal.
Describes the Sensation.

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Describes the Sensation.
Pasadena Dispatch to San Francisco Elk
aminer
Rev. ]. H. Kelley colored, pastor of the
Friendship Baptist Church of that place,
recently swallowed a live mouse To a
correspondent of the Examiner Rev. Mr..
Kelley said:
Il went to bed, as is my custom. at
about IL o'clock Thursday evening. 1
had been preparing speech 1 was to make
as orator of the day at the Lincoln birth
day celebration of Saturday Feb r. 1
piled the pillows up on my bed at my back
and read the Bible awhile. Then | took
the pillows away and put out the light and
went to sleep fiat on my back. l guess it
was about l O'Clock when l woke up. 1
felt a strange choking and rubbed my
throat sleepily, not realizing then that D
mouse had crawled down my throat while
1 slept. There seemed to be something
stuck in my throat. You see, have a big
mouth and big throat. nave expanded
my throat by speaking. l have spoken
in public ever since l was Is years of age.
WELL didn't know what had happen
ed l didn't in the slightest recollect the
animals crawling over me or down me.
As 1 gradually became fully awake swal-
lowed. There was a tightening of the mus.
Giles of my threat and l began to feel ter
rible pain. The mouse slipped down a lit
tie and 1 could feel 1T clawing and hear ii
squeak, squeak distinctly. Then / must
have got to my feet and put on my trous-
ers and coat. l can't recollect doing this,
but / found two or three hours later that
/ had them on. ] was half crazy and
couldn't reason. The pain was intense, for,
as l say, the mouse was clawing my in
sides. My brain reeled, and believe that
l could have had my leg amputated with
out feeling it. Where did II hurt? We'll.
the hurt was hard to locale. 1t seemed to
change location. The pain seemed 10 be
where the mouse was, and the mouse
seemed to be everywhere at once--all the
way down my aesophagus. 1 can renem-
Der vaguely rushing into the other room.
where my neighbor slept, and munbiing
something about having swallowed rat.
| could barely make a sound, and 1t hurt
terribly. They wouldn't believe that had
swallowed a mouse
81 don't remember getting on NV yvbeaI
but did and rode around the corner onto
Marengo avenue, where / vaguely recoI-
lected having seen DR.. GrinnelPs sign. I
threw my wheel down in the street ard
hammered on the Doctors door I'm ne
came down. / managed somehow to tell
him that | had swallowed o mouse He
and his wife sat me down in chair and
poured ipecac, warm water and other
emetics down me til / was as full as 1
could hold. But this didn't float the mouse.
and the doctor remarked that he guessed
I'd have to digest him.
II couldn't remember leaving my wheel
in the street, but the doctor brought IL TO
me, and / mounted and started to 20 homo.
The emetics began TO take effect before I
got 100 yards away.
my friends at lodge the next night jck-
ed me and seemed to doubt that I had
swallowed a mouse, but l was in a position
to know. 1 heard 1t squeak and felt Il
claw my insides. My friends asked ne.
too, AZ 1 wasn't sorry it had gotten into
the papers. / told them / would rather
have it i'm the papers than ia me-"