Another Way of Looking at it.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 270, 11 October 1884, Page 5 (Supplement)

Another Way of Looking at it.

"Them Ghriscbin blokes es runs them houses o' refuse m Cincinnater is the softest spots I ever see. Talk o' these 'ere floods bein' a calamity, I ses es they're a hullsale blessin' ter the commoonity." The speaker was a passenger on the B. & 0. Railroad last Saturday afternoon. " My, how Stumpy Bill an' me," he oontinued, " laid 'em out Tooaday mornin' ! " "How was it, Joe ?" said his companion. " Well, yer see, Bill an' me wo 3 down to ' ther city clean broke — hungrier'n anything — an' square down on our luck." " That's bad. I've been there myself." " An' Joe ses ter me, ses he : ' Mate serciety owes us a livin'. Let seroiety do her dooty.' "'Eshow' Joe?' sesl " ' You an' me,' se3 Bill quite solemn-likc, 4is two drownded out unfortnits whose hull prosper is a busted by these mighty waters.' " ' Thet's es yer say, Bill,' ses I accommodatin'. "• Ef thet don't work the orakil, nothin' will,' ses Stumpy. ' Lets you an' me make a raft outer some o' they loose planks an' float down to foot o' Race street like Noah a prospectin' Mount Arryrat.' 11 ♦ It's a ijee,' ses I, • eg i 3 worth considerin'.' "Well, we fixed it up jes es BUI sed. Rayther skeary work, you bet. But yer should a eeed us a fioatin' down the bosom o' the mighty river. It were a picter I An' when we fetched up to a lamp-post an' shuck the drippin' water from our garments, a hoorour rose up from a thousan' throats. ' Wheer from ?' ses one. • Give us yer han',' ses another. " Then Stumpy ses, ' Easy, gents, we've a toted it along all the way from Marietta, an' we're kind wore out an 1 tender.' " Well, ef we didn't git our skins full, its a pity. A noosepaper chap comes an' drors two columns of incidents out o' Bill, an' they talked o' havin' our pioters alongside the awful deluge at Lawrenceburg m the papers. " Then they took us to a house o' refuse, an' the ladies began to take a han' m the game. Rigged us out from stem to stern ; an' as I thort ef I could on'y git down to Pittsburg my afflicted wife and seven helpless kids might be. there to meet me, blame me if they didn't get me a railroad pass ; an' a tender-hearted ole cove with gold spectacles an' tears m his eyes pressed a 20 dol. bill m my hand. So now, yer see, I'm a goin' ter meet my wife an' kids — m yer mind 1 " — Detroit Free Press.