The sun., 1903-02-15
ZOE JOLLY BOYS
j TRIP TO JOLLY LAND.
No. In With He Sets Out oa
= Voyage


.outbern norton, which IL a French POS.
session. Ny father was French sold cr
ana NV mother q native woman. ami SIS
the second child born to them. Tee hrst
was also boy, and being three year pller
than I he lad the care Of me to great TX.
tent.
MY name may strike you a. queer, and
will explsin how 7 got 1t. Our famdv
name IL Bart. and INV given name II Paul,
hut I was so full of mirth, even az an niaat
that made everybody SIN H. "itn nl"
Az a yo,ngster I was laughing from
morning till night. and nothing over put
me out OF temper. One day wien ! was
about 10 years old. father brought com.
rade home with him, and when this man
heard me singing and laughing he said TO
my parents.
.Your boy IL 30 jolly that you ought to
change his name. II were you Id call
him Joe jolly Boy"
MY parents smiled at the idea, hut in
little time they began TO call me Joe and
Joe Jolly Boy. and by the time | was .
years old everybody used the name in speak
ing TO me.
The same soldier who gave me the name
also put queer ideas into my head. Wien
he came a second time he sat down with
me on bench at the door and said
.Joe Jolly Boy, when you get to be
Young man you should pay visit TO tho
island Of jolly Land 1t is situated half
way across the China Sea in the direction
Of Borneo, and a soldier who was there
once has told me some rare tales about
the people. 1t 10 Jolly Land indeed, az
everybody laughs from dawn till dark.
NV yconrade was there for four weeks,
and he did not see any ono weep or even
put on a serious face. The people are not
like us in color or build, and there are very
strange All nals on the island.
what is rightsideup 10 us is upside
down to them. They live in strange houses.
eat strange food, and are altogether unlike
any people you ever heard of before.
Hasten to grow up, and o ne day you
NAV nay a visit to the people who can
laugh & az loud and long as you can
The soldier talked simply TO be friendly
with me, and I don't think he believed
half he said. but my interest was at once
aroused ! wanted to set out and find
that island and see what was TO be seen
Indeed. I was on my way down TO the sea.
shore to find q boat and put TO sea when
my brother Anak met me and took me
back home.
I told him what the soldier had said. and
ne replled: ,
heard Of such an island. and I'm sure father
and mother never did Even II there was,
how are YOU TO get TO il? 1t is hundreds
of miles away over the water, and II you
put 10 sea in a boat you would perish mis-
erably within four days. DO not tmnK
But did think Of IT, 1t was in my mind
day and night, and though I was as jolly
as ever / was planning 20 do very TOOL
week after the soldier had told his
story | had determined to set out on
VOYAGE. Had my brother suspected what
/ was planning he would have told nv
father and then ! should have been se-
yere!y talked to ana PERHAPS % Mn,ptea
Down on the shore beyond our house
all the fishing boats were always drawn
up at night had been out in boats many
times S and yolns y,ss, ei them sso r.slizsd
that must have food and water In plenty
II was to 90 to sea.
The soldier had said the island was far
away. and might be two weeks reaching u.
boat kegs at the spring. but most OF the
II took me a week to secrete the quantity
I wanted, and then l gathered bananas,
oranges, lemons and other fruit to add 70 ~
bundle and slipped out Of the house with
out any one being the wiser. =,
There were no fishermen on the beach'
and having filled my keg and slowed away
INV food I showed the boat into the water
and set out on the strangest voyage a boy
ever undertook
/ was going to brave perils and dangers
I did not dream Of. and to have adventures
that might bring fear TO the heart OF
st rong man. Ibid not realize this, however
and had any one been about when ! sailed
out upon the dark waters he would have
heard Joe Jolly Boy laughing as he SCI
out for the unknown Jolly Land.
To BE- Continued.