The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-06

its tail at him the aggravatinest kind.
And yit you say that them pickerel
explains themselves! Why, juggling
Joe Jaggers, man, what be you thinkin'
about? =
4 admitted that I was wrong, and
Mr.. Colbraith continued:
Well, sir, Yesterday Jim come into
my tavern, and he was jest a-whoopin'
ana a-yellin. / thought sure that the
losin of his watch had druy him crazv
fer he had been ponderin' on it like all
, possessed.
obadiah" he hollers, I've found
my watch!"
Jim" says I, soothin' like, sure
now that he was crazier than a loon:
jim. says, don't let it work on to
you like that. Ding it, JIM" 1 saws.
IL Duy another watch myself says.
49,, Buy me another UNI hollers Jim.
What do I want with another IN
When I've got my own watch back? ?"
ne says, and pulls out his watch and
chaln that the rampagin' Old Passa
oanky plckerel had riz up and stole
from him.
Jim says, holdin' up my hands.
and feeltn' skeery. "Miracles?"
Pooty dirgnation might" says
Jim, and then he told me all about it.
J1ms cousin, Ben Lippincott, lives
three mile below the Big Slippin'
ROCKS. Ben is the l-pervadinest best
plckerel ketcher on the Old Passadan-
KY, cause he amt afeard of 'em When
teller hooks on to one O. them nick
erel and hauls in and gifts one sight of
him comm, and don't cut the line and
let the piclzerel go, then that feIIar
amt afeared to tackle his weight in
wildcats. III
Ben Lippincott he's Jest that kind
OF a teller, and he'll go all alone and
tackle them pickerel any time. Well
day before yesterday Ben thought ned
go out and skeer up a fight with 'em.
and he went. He hadn't trolled long
before he got strike that sort o. made
him shiver
"Belshazar's GhostH' says Ben. 'I
pet boss there amt no precedent on
the Old Passadanky fer setch a strike
as that" says he. "That pickerePs a
pickerel from the deepy deep waters.
says he. and he's madden than a
trapped BEAR
"And Ben was right, too. It amt
with while fer me to tell you how Ben
had to fight and tussle and sweat and
swear before he got the pIckereI
ashore; but he landed 'em. Yes-two
or EN-. But only one of 'em had Ben's
hook in his mouth. Tother I'm had to
come along, jest the same cause he
was fast to the hooked pickerel by a
NolSA CIldlU DIT ITdI.
Ben said 1t was the most su'prisfn'
thing he ever see. One end o. the
chain was fast In one pickerels teeth
tight as wax, and the other end was
some'rs down in t'other un's innards.
Ben felt that he ought to investigate.
lie Knocked the two pickerel in the
mead ana ripped tother picrel open. He
found a watch fast in it's gullet
Ben danced for joy over the prize
h.
and turned pale. He reco'nized the
watch as his cousin Jim Bodies Ben
hadn't heerd nothin' about Jims havin'
his watch stole, so there was only one
thing he could think of that had hap
pened.
:" '"Them pickerel has waylaid Jim
and gobbled him!" says Ben, land all
and chain!"
ben didn't lose no time, I tell you,
sittin' up to Jim's folkses with the
news. Well-but of course you know
what the upshot must a been, and
what lively time there was to Jim's.
One O. them pickerel had stole the
watch from Jim, and t'other pickereI
had tried to steal it from that pickerel.
In the tuSsle fer 1t they got into a
scrape, and Jim found his watch. But
1t was tolerble close on to miracles
toler'ble close!
Them piekerel Of Old Passadanky
explains themselves, do they? Well,
now, you see that they don't; and you
Jest put 1t in the paper in big type that
they're fierce and alarmin', and then
jot 1T along that Jim Bodle has found
his watch, and that there comes pooty
dern nigh to miracles bein done up on
the Old Passadanky. And don't forgit
to string 1t in that them news was
brung in by Obadiah Colbraith ct set
terry, and then mebbe I'll scribe fer
your paper some day, and you kin
come up and decker 1t out at the Old
Passadanky Tavern
Then Mr.. Colbraith went away, and
whether he liked the way 1 put them
news in the paper never knew. Per-
haps he didn't, for he never 'scribed for
It,"