The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-05-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
(. OF Course He Could Swim :
4 rhe s,ercopticon Man Convincss tho :
Gas Man OF II.
- ~. 81. 4,:. 81. -. D'AOAOAJ
GIVES" said the stcreop:icon man,
Il kin swim.

Il kin swim.
like a bricl?" asked the gas man.
"Not on your miniature. returned
+he stereopiicon man. Il learned In
ne fal. JUS before the water got
cold
SAY" said the gas man. sternly,
saint seen you at Coney Island
.r,ery summer for four years, wen you
.onldn't swim no further than
bullet in n beer bottle? say, If you
want 10 lie, why don't you lie like
are I'm weary of your life, | am
That's right
say said the stereopticon man.
-.lid YOU see me at Coney island las
.summer? | guess not.
That's right" admitted the gas
man. Il didn't. You was in Ohio last
sumner. Least you says you was.
That's right. was in Ohio. was
dom two-week stands with mov1n
pi'ture machine. AN a string OF pat
rnt medicine ads. an there's where
the thing happened at made NE learn
u swim
sheriff chase YOU into the river?'
.sncered the gas man.
1T wasn't the sheriff the stereop-
ticon man went on. patiently. The
sheriff don't live at could scare me
like was scared then. IL was IN
Toledo" said the stcreopticon man
.nhere all the men wear their pants
short. SOS 10 keep en- up. outer the
street, an was shown iight PIE
lures 10 big crowds every night. Bu'
course was loatin days. an one day
! walks out along a crack IN the
ground them Ohio gaxabos calls
river They call it the Maumee river
Well. | walks along in the sun, TIL
feels pretty dusty myself, an then
lays down under big maple tree, an
watches the traffic up an down IN
crack in the ground. an the cloud
dom hasd-walks mp in the sky. an IN
grass wa,in an the caves rustlin al
sporty lookin' sparrers scrap'n owe
worfa | falls asleep an dreams u
barkin' for a snalIc-shop on the low
cry an must a slept long time
cause il was five O'Clock when l wok
up. and the sun was come IN unde
the maple tree and burnt the skin @
my nose, so it looked like pickle
beet on frec-lunch counter.
Well the show wasn't opened b.
fore half-past eight o'clock. so Jus
locks around to see what's in sigh
But there wasn't much. only a co
that had broke into a timothy iiel
an couple of crows sittin on
fierce But just then. looks a lit
way up the crick and there's DC
fishin' OF the end of an OIL scow. We
climbs along till | comes TO
boz. an then gets on the scow.
"'How's luck?'
Tain't worth a hurrah.' says u
boy.
What you caught? says ].
Not dod-binged thing says q
boy. an | bin here all day
"'Ncll.' says I. your language
pretty s,rong-for a boy. says |.
"'Y' otter hear dad says the be
an he puts a new green grasshopr
on his hook. an goes on fishin tho
sayin' another word. That's 7
kinder kids they raise out west,
Ohio.
But he was poor-lookin' boy,
hehad ath instead OF fishin rod.
was scttin' on the stern of the sec
with his legs hangin' over. The b
was high an dry. but where the Y
was the water looked bout 40 Il
deep. II was black loolin' water, Q
Won couldn't see an inch in under
But the boy don't &c. n nibblc. q
gets tired watchin, an | says to
boy
Gimme the. line. I'll show
how & ketch fish, SAYS"
An did he give We the line"' asl
the gas man.
Cert" said the stercopticnn m
why wouldn't hc?''
Say. you're cold bluff" said
gas man. Say. IL there was fish
was old. an'easy. an starvin' : DEF
an ready to commit suicide
wouldn't know how TO catch IN.
the boy give you tn" liner
Sure. An ] hadn't no sooner
tn the hook than kctches a hsh
Jaw, any," said the gas man, y