The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
MIRACLES In OLDPASSADANKY.
AMAZIN' PICKEREL OUT THERE
SURPASS THEMSELVES.
Stealing OF Jim Bodies watch by Those
Alarming DeniZens OF the Deepy
Deep and Its Surprising Recovery
Furnish Items for the GeeyAlle Paper.

] Alarming DeniZens OF the Deepy
Deep and Its Surprising Recovery
| Furnish Items for the GeeyAlle Paper.
-One day, the time l was running the
Trumpet Blast of Freedom for the guidance,
enlightenment and elevation Of the way
back constituency Of Geeville and parts
adjacent" said the citizen who has since
made a reputation in a more extended
sphere, "a comfortable-looking native
came into the Office and remarked
al s'pose you wouldn't object to few
jottn's from the Old Passadanky dees-
trict, would you2'
al assured the visitor that the Trumpet
would be only too glad to print the news
| from Old Passadanky.
| IAN right, said he. Make the hrst
| jottn' somethin' like this: Them Old
Passadanky pickerel is fierce and alarmin'"
You mowt put that in big type, cause
them pickerel is wuth it. Then put 1t in
that jim Bodle has found his watch. The
third jottin' you kin string along SOS it'll
| read: There comes pooty dern nigh to
miracles bein' done. up on the Old Passa-
danky.'
"Them's about all the news l brung
| in this time, but they'm enough. You
mowt head EN-: "Old Passadanky Ag'in
All Creation" and say that they was brung
in by Obadiah Colbraith, landlord OF the
| Old Passadanky Tavern, where he ia pre-
pared to entertain man and beast Mt all
times O. day and night with the best the
| market affords, terms made known on
| application; special rates to them that
comes by the week or month, and satisfac-
ton guaranteed. You mowt string that
in ahead o. the jottin's as an evidence that
they can be took in good faith and that
amt foolin' you with no news that amt so. '
Il nodded, and referred back to the
| jottngs
AS to the one about the pickerel,
I said that, of course, explained itself,
| but the finding of Mr. Bodies watch and
the lot about the miracles seems to me,
| Mr.. Colbraith, that there ought to be more
in those than the mere mention
Them pickerel explains themselves
exclaimed the bringer-in Of the news from
Old Passadanky. why, Great Sloppin
81 Slocum, mani Them pickerel can't ex-
| plain themselves. There amt nothin' on
top O. earth kin explain them Old Passa-
danky pickerel. Anybody can lose watch
| and find 1t, and if miracles is goin' to be
did there amt no place nowhere where
| they mowt be did better than they mowt
at Old Passadanky. But them pickerel
| explainin' themselves Why
He paused and looked around the office
| as II he were seeking the possibility of
finding words sufficient to express how alb
soutely absurd the idea was that those
| pickerel could explain or be explained, and
failing to find any he turned to me and
said
But, mebbe I'd better say few
remarks about them pickerel?"
Il declared that would be glad if he
would, And he did
I'm the first place said he, I'd like to
have you come up and try them pickerel.
some day; but you want to look out Thpy'm
actin particular bad jest now. And in
the second place, Jim Bodies watch wasn't
lost, 1t was stole.
when Jim came to the tavern and told
me his watch had been stole felt terrible
sorry fer him. cause he had been savin'
ND considerable while to git it. and twan't
likely that he'd ever git another one. But
! when he told me who stole it l Jest billed
| over, fer twas only the week before that
the only pig jim had was stole by bear,
and a hawk stole nine chickens, and now
| when II come TO pickerel raisin up and
| stealth his watch, it was more than could
stand
-DinRnation take 1t says jim, sit amt
| safe TO be in this bailiwiclI no more" says
he.
"'.Of course, it amt, JIM says I, -and
he looked 40 desolatn' low down and dumpy
that give him two good snifters, and half
a pint to take home with him.
| And Jim want out after pickerel,
neither He was ont dilly -dallin' with
the bass, some o them old sockindoodlers
that laws low fer things along the Big Slip
| pin Rocks o the Old Passadanky. jim was
standn' jest above his knees in the water.
playin' a bass he had Jest hooked, when
aplunk,r come somethin' ag'in his stomick
that knocked the wind outen him and
doubled him up like a iack-knife.
| Now, s'posin' that you had been winded
and doubled up like that by PUNK in the
stomck, and when you come to, and looked
| down to see what in Sam Hill had done the
| windin' and doublin', and had zee that 1t
was a tremendous, glarin, grindin big
| pickerel had done it, and that the pickerel
| had grabbed your watch chain and was
tuggin' and vankin' at it like mad, wouldn't
you been surprised"
Il said would.
! II thought mebbe you'd more than
likely cay So said my visitor, cause It d
be- funny If YOU wouldn't. And, of course.
| Jim was surprised when he seen that setch
was Jest what was happenin to him. And
before he gotlall o his wind back and could
! hitch some o that doubIin' out OF him, the
| pickere had shipped the watch outen his
| pocket yanked the chain outen Jims but
| tonhole and was divin' back into the water
| az in with its plumber And jim said the
| pickere was mean enough to stop when it
was half under and wiggle its tail at him
! the aggravatinest kind.
| And Wit you say that them pickerel
| explains themselves! Why, Juggling Joe
| Jaggers, man, what be you thinkin' about|
AZ admitted that l was wrong, and MIR.
! Colbraith continued:
well, sir, Yesterday jim come into my
tavern, and he was Jest a-whoopin' and
! a-yellin'. / thought sure that the losn' of
his watch had druv him crazy fer he had
been ponderin' on it like all-possessed.
"1Obadiah,' he holers, -l've found
a'"Jim," says /, soothin' like, sure now
| that he was orazier than loon; Jim" /
saws, "don't let II work on to you like that.
Ding ii Jim says, "I'n buy another watch
| myself l says.
"'"Buy me another uni" hollers jim.