JOHNNY ON CAMELS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1658, 13 June 1879, Page 4

JOHNNY ON CAMELS.

One time a man wich was a travler he cornea to a lake, and a caml waa a standin’ in the lake up to the camla belly. Then the man he tuke out hin led-pend and rote into hi* diry book • “ This ia the land of the •won. The *won ia the blgist bird which •wirna the deep, long graceflo nex like snakes nex, and not any tail for to apeak of.” JBime bi the caml it come out and wocked away, and then the man he rote a other time: “ The awons leg* ia 4, and its feet* in wop-

pers. Swous is jest like camel*.” After a wile there was a natif nigger, and ha sed had the man see his caml any were. Then the man he rote again, the man he did —“ They call em camels, too." A man wich had a caml in a sho he stood to the door of his sho and hollered—“ Week In gents, ony 2 bits for to see the grate caml of Madgigasker, which wocks the dessert like a thing of life, and which is so high that its haunch is cuverd with eternle sno ! ” Then my sisters yung man he sed—“How hi is yure tent! ”

Then the sho man he hiked at ray s’sters yung man a wile and ho sed—“ The arkiteck which desined it is absent puting up a Idiet sylum for fellers which Basses the shoman and his plans is lock up in the ephalents trank, but I gess mebby this tent is bout as hi as the platform wich yure father was gettin down off from time he broke his neck.” Then my sisters yung man he was offle mad, and he take of his cote and was a goin for to lick the shoman. But the shoman he hollerd back in the tent—“ Jim. feteh that caml out here and make him pay his 2 bits, cos there’s a yung feller which is a other sho.” But if I was my sisters young man I wude hit the shoman on the snoot of his nose, yes, indeed, and holler—“l’me the grate fiter of Madgigasker and my back is go upper than a camls back, lots of eternle sno and some clouds, too, hooray ! ” Cos Ime brafo like a aojer wan its a fair fite, no strikn back.