The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

all the vinegar barrels and make potato
salad, which would keep until we reach
be land"
a noble suggestion" cried Captain
Squibob; you may have suck on my
pipe as a reward, my clever lad!
Thank you, I would rather have some
potato-salad," replied Jack.
You shall have a plateful. SURELY
said the captain, with a benign smile
Now began a very busy time on board
the Meadowlark. For many days all
hands were occupied cutting up with
their pocket knives potatoes, onions ana
parsley, until the whole cargo had been
disposed Of. Then they emptied all OF
the oil and vinegar into the hold and the
potato salad was made. The pump 5
sounding-rods indicated twenty-five feet
Of potato-salad in the hold of the Meadow
lark, and the captain measured i every
day to see if any of the crew We're eat-
ing it.
At last the billy shores of Oompalooloo-
land crowned with waving cOcOanut ana
date-palms. bread-fruit trees banana.
orange. tamarind and hg trees were vtsi-
bic in the distance. Their arrival was
well timed. for it is only at the season or
the year in which they arrived that the
shore could be approached for during
solid for many miles from land and the
cold is so intense that the flame Of a
candle is frozen stiff and is used as an
arrow-point by the fur-clad hunters.
At the time they arrived it was mid
summer in OompalOolOoland, and was 50
hot that the hens laid hard-bOiled eggs
and the bread-fruit trees dropped hos
rolls every morning. The ship was well
coined by an enormous number CT saw
ages headed by King Oompanga, and
came to anchor right in front of the
Kings palace. When the inhabitants
we're presented with samples of the pO-
tato-salad they went wild with delight,
and brought bags of gold dust, pearls,
diamonds. Ostrich-feathers and ivory to
exchange for this delicious dish, and in a
very few days the captain had sold out
the entire cargo and began 70 look about
him for some strange animals to take
home on the return voyage.
Every one of the crew was entitled TO
take home as many animals as he wished
as his share Of the voyage, and Jack Ge-
termfned to procure the rarest and most
wonderful creatures that Oompalooloo-
land afforded, instead of monkeys, ant
eaters, armidilloes or Mongooses, which
we're easily obtained, and which the 9th
ers were satisfied to take. King OOm-
panga took a great fancy to Jack because
his hair was red, something never before
seen in the land. He called him Walk
ing Torch, and said he lighted Up the
palace better than a cOcOdnuI-Oil lamp
and he took him with him into the re.
mote forest, where they hunted and cap
tured such remarkable animals that Jacl
knew he would become famous as well a.
rich upon his return with them to Amer
lea.
The first that he caught wes the Gazoozs
bird-fish. This creature, which no ma
turaIist can assign TO its element, it being
equally at home in the air, the water OF
on land. is an animal with fishlike sCal1
body, featneTed wings and hairy legs Wit
claws, and it is d wonderful sight to Sc
it come darting up TO the surface Of tn
water, swim about leisurely and then q.
up and perch upon Talolu tree and be
gin to crack nuts with its funny beak
breaking into a joyous song now and then
as If full of glee.