AN AMERICAN STORY.
Once there was a man. He went into the woods and chopped down four trees. He used the four stumps for corner posts, and he built him a nice lo? hut* or*' those stumps, There he and his family went to bed in the houße. The next morning he found himself and family up sixty feet in the air, with a lot of Indians down below waiting to out their-hair off, and the Indians did scalp the whole of 'em. " Stranger," said I, "you don't mean to tell ma those trees grew sixty feet in one night J" "Sir, I do," says he," and uoi only that, they hoisted the house up with 'em." " Are you sure it wasn't sixty-ono feet?" I asked meekly. " Sir," said he, " I never prevaricate, especially on one foot." "So they took'and scalped em all, did they?" "They did," said he. "How did they get up to 'era?" I asked. Says he, " Eespected; sir, tha.se Indians eaoh one sawed off a tree. '. Then each Indian sat on a stump, and th.o«» stumps grew the Indians up to the 5&. and then they soalped the family." "*"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1033, 27 March 1882, Page 2
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193AN AMERICAN STORY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1033, 27 March 1882, Page 2
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