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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1225, 3 November 1874, Page 3

"NCIDENT OF TRAVEL. At the head waters of the Jordan a camel took charge of my overcoat while the tents were being pitched, and examined it with a critical eye all over with as much interest as if he had an idea of getting one made like it, and then, after he was done figuring on it as an article of apparel he began to contemplate it as an article of diet. ''■' (Continued.) SPRING- GOODS HAVE BEEN OPENED AT WESTPORT HOUSE. He put his foot on it, and lifted one of the sleeves out with his teeth, and chewed and chewed at it, gradually taking it in, and all the while opening and closing bis eyes in a kind of ecstasy as if he had never tasted anything as good as an overcoat before in his life. Then he smacked his lips once or twice and reached after the other sleeve. (Continued.) FASHIONABLE DRESS GOODS ON VIEW AT WESTPORT HOUSE. Next he tried the velvet collar, and smiled a smile of such contentment that it was plain to see that he regarded that as the daintiest thing about an overcoat. The tails went next, along with some percussion caps and cough candy, and some fig-paste from Constantinople. And then my newspaper correspondence dropped out, and he took a chance at that—manuscript letters written for the home papers. (Continued.) A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF NEW PRINTS FOR SALE AT W E S T P 0 R T II O U S E. But he was treading on dangerous ground now. He began to come across solid wisdom in those documents that was rather weighty on his stomach, and occasionally he would take a joke that would shake him up till he loosened his teeth. (Continued.) LADIES' HOSIERY & UNDERCLOTHING FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR AT WEST PORT HOUSE. It was getting to be perilous times with him, but he held his grip with good courage, and hopefully, till at last he began to stumble on statements that not even a camel could swallow with impunity. (Continued.) BLANKETS FROM 12s Gn to 60s AT . WESTPORT HOUSE. He began to gag a.ud gasp, and his eyes to stand out, and his fore legs to spread, and in about a quarter of a minute he fell over as stiff as a carpenter's work bench, and died a death of indescribable agony. LONG CLOTHS, SHEETINGS, TICKINGS, COUNTERPANES, AND LINEN TABLING AT WESTPORT HOUSE. I went and pulled the manuscript out of his mouth and found that the sensitive creature had choked to death on one of the mildest and gentlest statements of fact that I ever laid before a trusting public. Mark Twaijt. MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING OF SUPERIOR MATERIALS AND MAKE. HATS, IN GREAT VARIETY. NEW CRIMEAN SHIRTS AND SHIRTING AT WESTPORT HOUSE.