Another Way of looking at it.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1902, 13 September 1884, Page 6

Another Way of looking at it.

" Them Chrischin blokes es runs them houses o' refuse in Gincinnater is the softest spots I over see. Talk o1o 1 these 'ere floods bein' a calamity, I ses es they're a hullsale ble«sin' ter the conmioonifcy." The speaker was a passenger on the B. A 0. Railroad last Saturday afternoon. " My, how Stumpy Bill an' me," he continued, " laid 'em out Toosday mornin' ! " "How wa3 it, Joe?" said his companion. " Well, yer see, Bill an' me wos 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 sea ter mo, ses he : ' Mate serciety owes us a livin'. Let serciofcy do her dpoty.' "'Eshow' Joe?' seal " ' You an' me,' se3 Bill quite solemn-like, •is two drownded out unforfcnits whose hull prospex is a busted by these mighty waters.' " ' Thet's es yer say, Bill,' ses I aecommodatin'. "'Ef thet don'c work the orakil, nothin' will,' ses Stumpy. ' Lets you ap'me make a rait outer some o' they loose planks an' float down to foot o' Race street like Noah a prospactin' Mount Arryrat.' " ' Ife's a ijee,' ses I, ' es is worth considerin'.' " Well, we fixed it up jes es Bill sed. i Rayther skeary work, you bet. But yer | should a seed us a floatin' down the bosom o' the mighty river. It were a picter ! An' < when we fetched up to a lamppost an' shuck the drippin' water from our garments, a hoorour rosa up from a thousan 1 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' 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 pictsrs alongside the awful deluge at Lawrenceburg in the papers. " Then they took us to a house o' refuse, an' the ladies began ' to take a han' in 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 in his eyes pressed a 20 dol. bill in my hand. So now, yer see, I'm a goin' ter meet my wife an' kids— in yer mind 1"— Detroit Free Press.