El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-28
Copyright. 1914. by Mcclure News
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66A 7 OWY that's mOre'n the frs
~ time you've limited you don't
believe what I say" said
- Uncle AshdOd to Sim Perkins, angrily
4 sit here and tell you truthful tales
and you go and insult me by hintin
that what / say amt So How could ]
tell EN- if they wasn't true? Why, my
own widow she says to me, the last
time / saw her"
How can you have a widow when
you amt dead yet?" asked Sim Per
Rms. That's just the way, all the
time. on so and say things like that,
and when I ask question, just to get
the facts straight in my mind, you get
mad. A widow is the wife Of a dead
man, amt she? You amt dead are
your"
Well, sometimes I think I am. and
sometimes I think I amt, and some
times don't know what to think
said Uncle AShdOd. "Au Pm right
sure Of is that I had a wife once, and
her name was Josephine, and that she's
widow now Ana the last thing she
said to me, after my funerals
~, Q5nerals? DID you have more than
One?' asked Sim Perkins
OF course" said Uncle Ashdod
and the last thing she said to me
after them, was, AshdOd, you may
have had your faults, but you never
told lie IN your life. I amt seen
much Of you, you being always sailing
the seas, but I'm sorry you're dead.
AND II ever she gays, you need a
recoE1mendation for truthfulness, re-
Ter folks to me- That's what she said.
and If ever body speaks plain and
means what she says, it's a widow
when she's speakin' to her late hus-
band"
what say her address wasp asked
Sim Perkins pulling a pencil from his
pocket
Il didn't say" said Uncle Ashdod. 81
didn't keep track Of where she moved
to never having need to refer to her
for truthfulness, but the last I see of
her was at Comquag, Maine, where she
was born and raised and married. She
was standin' on her porch, wavin' at
me with one hand and Wipin' her weep
ing eyes with the other, and I hated to
leave ner, but man that's buried
Oughtn't to hang around his own wild
oW's house like a ghost So Invent
away And all my pallbearers went
away at the same time"
What pallbearers?" asked Sim Per
kins.
Mine. The ones that had rought
my remains home from foreign parts
said Uncle Ashdod. "They brought
them home, and they guarded them
jealOusly-tOO dang jealousy, almost
They almost fought about my ashes
they did. And the Mate Of the Sally
Ann was the jealOusest. When he come
up from the railway station with the
crew Of the sally Ann in a process
sion"
"Oh, weur' said Sim Perkins sadly.
IF you've got to tell 1t, I guess I've
got to listen. What killed you in the
first placer"
Jungle fever" said Uncle Ashdod
promptly. Me and the crew Of the
Sally Ann was huntin' pearls in the
jungle OF ZanZibar-'
Didn't know pearls was found in
jungles," said Sim Perkins. what did
you hunt 'em With2 Microscopes
Gums" said Uncle AshdOd. shot
guns mostly. We used to shoot the
"shot 'em on the wing, I supposer
said Sim Perkins, sarcasticalIy. "I
suppose you went into the Jungle and
shot the fish as they flew over, didn't
you?"
Sometimes we did" said Uncle Ash
dods land sometimes we waited until
they lighted on the trees"
what kind of fish, hey?" asked Sim
Perkins.
''F1yin' fish, Of course" said Uncle |
Ashdod. 1.-THE kind of flynn fish that
feeds on oysters. You see, them flynn
fish would swim down in the ocean
until they came to an oyster bed, and
then they'd eat a lot Of oysters. They'd
gulp EN- down, pearls and all, and
then they'd fly ashore and perch on the
trees and take a nap, and we'd shoot
en-, and cut 'em open, and get the
pearls. I used the tin fish from off the
church spire at Comquag, Maine, for
a deeoy- / set it up on the top of a