The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
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Yes" said the man. "Take me
away! l am sick of jelly. am sail
or. but l got drunk and they maroon
ed me here. l have been here three
years, and all I had to eat was jelly
jelly, jelly! I have turned to jelly.
Feel me-"
They felt him, and sure enough he
was sticky and soft like jelly. Sinbad
the Sailor put on his gloves and took
hold of the sticky man and lifted him
into the boat, and they showed off.
They scraped the jelly from their
feet and started for the ship, but It
was hidden behind little gray island,
and they thought they would see what
was on that island.
AS they came close they saw people
standing on the shore looking at them,
but the peoples necks were as long as
trees. They kept stretching their
necks and staring at Sinbad the Sail
or and his men.
WONDERFUL they said How
strange these people are!"
Sinbad thought he was not half as
strange as those people, with their Os-
trich necks The boat touched land,
but seemed to bounce away, and they
had to get out and wade in the water
a little to push it to dry land.
When Sinbad and his sailors went
ashore the people there drew in their
necks until they were like ordinary
people Sinbad was standing on a
rock, and when the boat was made
fast he jumped down. Much to his
surprise. he bounced up from the
ground like a rubber ball and nearly
fell over.
He tried it again, and found that the
earth was like bedsprings, The sail
ors watched him and then initiated
him until they were all jumping up
and down.
They bounced harder and harder
till they bounced as high as the tallest
trees, and came down without hurt
ing themselves.
The people of the island looked at
them and nodded their heads and said,
That's right, that's right"
Sinbad told his men to walk by his
side, in order to be on the lookout for
trouble, and they bounced along to-
ward the town.
They were surprised with every
thing they saw. The street cars ran
without noise, and the peoples feet
made no noise on the sidewalks. The
horses trotted, or rater bounced,
without making a sound.
A man was talking with another
man when a car came by and he
Jumped upon 1t. The Otner man nelQ
him by the arm and the car started.
The man on the car began to stretch,
and stretch, but the man on the street
would not let go until he was through
talking. Then he let go, and the other
man snapped back into shape like
rubber band.
On that island, when a man wants
to make his house bigger he simply
puts in stout boards and stretches the
rooms till they are big enough. The
children do not play with rubber balls,
because they are rubber themselves,
and can bounce better than rubber
balls in this country.
All the clothes are of one size, and
they fit everybody, from the biggest
man to the littlest baby, simply by
stretching the clothes to fit.
The lead pencils have no rubber
ends, because the pencil itself is rub
Der and rubs out whatever is mark
ed.
Nobody wears rubbers when it rains,
because they don't have to. Their
every day shoes are rubber.
The people of the island were very
kind. Everybody bower clear to the
ground whenever Sinbad spoke.
They were so timber and polite that
it pleased Sinbad very much. He
thought it was a very interesting coun-
try, and told them so. Once they
went into store, and the door was
so low that Nebo, who was very tall,
had to stoop down. The storekeeper