Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-05-31


This is story that Ananias Slime
told me-" warned Captain Barnabas
Fish as he skillfully mended net on
the silver sands Of Ounce harbor;
therefore. ma'am. I'm not responsible
Cor its veracity."
Never mind" assured him eagerly.
"Of course know they can't be true.
Nevertheless they are interesting II one
can separate the truth from the fic-
ton"
Miss Telham." said the captain,
turning his twinkllng eye upon me,
ton with my old messmate Ananias
Slime He's just a plain and simple
liar. but every once In awhile, like
most liars. he swings the pendulum so
far to leeward that back she comes
and runs afoul Of the truth. At such
times Ananias gets into heaps Of trou-
BILE.
Now. the story | have in mind is
about the time Ananias got into trou-
BILE with the rajah of Raddabah, out
IN India You wouldn't think the mate
OF peaceful trading ship like the old
Indus was would be mixing In such
high society as Indian princes, but
when Ananias got started on an ad-
venture there was no knowing where
he'd stop-not at princes anyway.
Likely 1t would have to be kings or
queens or big bugs Of some extra high
standing.
well, we had left Calcutta and was
running along down the coast with the
Jaipur hills in the background when
Ananias came aft and told me that the
water butts had sprung a leak and
that we would have to put ashore and
get another supply Of water.
Il won't 60 into the details Of how
this happened, ma'am, for 1t was all
most unsenmanlike. and 1t had never
happened TO me before. Our ships
carpenter repaired the damages. and
all we had to do was to tie up at the
right place aud try and find some pure
water, and In India. ma'am, that's no
easy matter.
AT last we came to a fair sized vii
lage where the natives DIDN'T seem any
more thun naturally curious at sight
OF US, ana Ananias went ashore with
some men TO have a powwow with the
headman.
How could you talk to that head
man. Ananiasr ! asked him. 1 didn't
know you could speak HindustanL
i don't wear all my accomplish
ments on my sleeves. skipper ne says
excitedly.
"'S'pose you talk IA little HindustAni
to me- baited him.
Ihen Ananlas rattied on iot OF
queer g1pDerisn that SOUNDED as IL no
mao sWahowed all ms Ieeth ana was
Laughing ahout IL. You saveeF ne
ended up JUST IKE Cninee laundry
man.
understand. ! says 10 MN grim
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