| Show w J What Davy dV Brown Town Learned from Uncle flose ose About Oll Prehistoric Relics e Ics and an the e Strange Adventure i That d Was dS the e outcome BROWN and Undo Uncle hose were great t DAVY frie ls t Uncle Hose Mose was An oM old colored man woo who by profession was It a arti artist t as he caned called it but lie he was known to all his neighbors as s a whitewasher w He Be was old far older than anybody else ele in Watertown and aDd wry very very pry wise wise of course as was U quite natural in one of his age That he was fond of f a 8 little boy might L LJ be considered J odd but it often happens that an n man becomes attached to a youngster BOO and these e etwo two were great eat friends U Uncle Nose MOoSe lived right by the riverside and ho hoo o owned ned a boat in which Davy spent many a happy hour The of the river were high and of a sandy gravelly soil in ht which men of science very ery often to dig for those objects of ets arrowheads and the are scattered rf all over our land gOO but nowhere so plentifully as on th the banks of this river As far back as Davy could rl lie 00 Lad had seen U Uncle Nose lose tho scientific visitors with shovel and pick Jick but he e Deve realized low tOW much Uncle dose ose knew about things until he be was quite a big boy and had begun t tip find arrowheads and such thin things s for himself One day he picked up a long straight club f f article very carefully polished in a spot where the river bank hied fallen recently and he hastened to uncle Unde Mose to learn what hat it was for 11 he hd had never seen n such an instrument although h now new he was quite familiar with many of the cb discovered tl in the gravel Pats a pestle fo sure r Uncle UDde Here flats Dats what dean Stone A Age e men used ter grind der eri in a big hollow rock JOk Ill bet you could git a half dollar doHar for dat if one of dent dem professors was roun hc But wIlY why did they take so match trouble those Stone nc Age men men demanded the die boy Vhs t they hey take tako their corn to the mill and have ime it Y ground grund f How you yon talk Dont you know dey de he have heno x uIO no mill nor Or in dt dem m times 1 rePlied Moss OS Dey Der fist naturally had to do everything by hang How long ago was that time asked Davy Long Lon before all d at gravel and sand came to he be piled ou on to de earth said Undo Uncle Nose Iose Pris g 1 thirty a hundred thou thousand nd years AgO AgOt t HoW ILow do you know that f asked the 00 boy boyt t h Cause we find dein clem stone things down don beneath tIle the gravel and sand De say dat long hoot out de Caloric Age or some sick sich t time lne down carne slam bang all dat gravel and a and hur buried l up everything in men Inen and an all Fust time I hear bout it good while sen senor am dey says dat it aU all hap happen happen pen in what dey call de Ice Age Ase and den dey say saT de d ice done bri bring g all dat sand day clay and gravel here bore hut but lately dent dem professors des de say its impossible for any Jn ice to make an all dat stuff and besides dat where wheres s k de ice to Kit git all slat flat stuff from anWa anyway Well then where did it come front from f demanded Davy D v Dey 0 says a comet just hauled off oti and slapped it aU all on de face of de earth tarth and den went spinning aWI away again Reckon lots ats right cause all dat sand and clay am jilt lip up in spots like de d wind windswept swept i it roUl and noun roun hike lik a And d at the bottom botto underneath the hardest and aid de toughest hest part lays Jays dem stone lives knives and axes an and St so ou on h Vell eU a anyhow even V Jt if the ice iee hr brought ht it aU all These this must be mighty might old ventured th the boy r life exclaimed rn t nde Mo I 1 reckon r on Pm was de times o 0 witches and hobgoblins Why dt der had bout as big as railroad trains a round de earth seeking who ho ley dey might devour ease case souse SOMe of deir has been heen found and in em sticking to leir deir riM ribs ant arrows n and spears Gee whiz exclaimed Davy DaTY I wish ish Id been alive ie then theny i y You 00 wouldn t a been Jen a 8 mouthful to 10 one of dem clem or dem deDI ms replied tIle the old man I seen dt de head of what My dey eMU call A thud it was bigger erdan dan your pas wagon lady 1 So ow f tese as your father will tell you yeu did not really name these ancient animals correctly but i it made no to Davy who listened in won dr der MIMI anti awe after which he more Inore ea eagerly for relics of the past and aDd found many which he sold to in collectors for lord ocd sums Along the sloping barks of the river ricer and up tip the nary Darrow creeks that flowed into it it lIP be roamed da daily with eyes that rarely missed the g gleam m of a white quartz arrow arrowhead head the ro rough end of a spearhead or some other ancient implement 1 V JI r Every time he be spied spiro a maa of gravel he be hastened to it and it was as not often that lat lathe he failed to ford fiad a treasure hidden there In i time mc the profs l ro wre tile the tOI colleges who fairly e ed 1 thAt locality came to look Jook for hint hill and nd depend on hint for supplies and in the college Dm were many things marked with ith DA Davy Browns name lame lamens ns as t the Original discoverer which he had p presented to the museums One Olle afternoon he struck It a new spot one that he had never f explored where immense trees o overhung a hi creek and aud ao the gnarled roots riots of It a fallen n tr tree he spied something that Je reflected ted the sunshine WIth strange a greem greenish h gleam It was half alf buried in the sand but ut his keen practiced e eye e Instantly detected that It was stone and one of the ancient reli relics When men M lie had lifted it frost froat its gravelly bed he was gas delig delighted ted to find that he be had discovered i me tIling entirely new and strange e a stone slone object the like of which nobody had ever before seen for of off f course urse D Davy noW knew just ab about ut what hAd been found previously because the professors had given him many books on the subject of Stone Age implements ments The thing which hue he hAd found wu was made mado f a dun dull green flinty Hinty stone shaped like a heart lacart with a inn sur surf f 1 c bolt h and w when e navy Davy tad removed l thOc tho cling from frolli it he saw t that R a round made ad d been b e t fored t ita it that it might be suspended d like a J about a out t neck of its wearer p td c i J rr lt y r s its v e Tf i r s 1 S r f v x y s s sy sI 1 t y LL J J 1 O I 1 lJ S S T i fr t fi s sf i f 1 rv 1 r AIt y CRAM 90 ti tiTHE THE BE OFER 01 i THE r t I He hastened home huDIC with hi Lis IH ac Do Doctor tor Pollard d oculist who WB was always a fags fa ju judge of diamonds md and other precious stones instantly J ly the find to be Q emerald an and one of immense value alue Mr Gol the dIe town jeweler offered Day Davy 18 for it as soon as he saw it Judge of Da s surprise when Professor Rankin Hankin of Princeton declared that Ute the emerald heart was worth fully Parting with it WAS far rr from m his hat as said it ought t to be polished DAvy be began began gan to the task in a Japanese which consists simply d in rubbing a stone sUme between between the hands This is the way they used to give gie such x II perfect polish to the beautiful ware before they learned how to polish with machinery Day after da day Day Davy rubbed his prize noting with delight light that it greW smoother and more Blore shining g as the time passed although it certainly taxed axed the thebo bo boys g patience Finally it glittered like a green sun and not a scratch remained to slow what hard usage it had pASSed through during the thousands of years it had lain Jain in the gravel amid pounding rooks and swirling floods Now he had often held the stone heart to todie the die light and looked through its green splendor at atthe the thc sun for it was as clear as c crystal stal throughout Bud and but one day he saw with astonishment ItS as he peered through it that he was looking lear clear through the walls of If the thc house and across acres the fields Ids beyond This rids was his first intimation that the stone had magiC qualities He tested it again to find that with its aid it was possible to see gee through h an all sorts of f substances and then he h this hapP happened with it one could see any anything thing he wished the worM world over c At first lie he experimented only witH simple things suck such as looking down the well or through the this ness of au an oak osk tree or into a rock Then Theil lie he went farther and saw by its magic magie where thi things were lost and what people were doing ft afar ar off Thus without leaving his own room lie could see a play in the theatre or witness the dIe performance in a cir circus cir circus cus althou although h of Df course he could hear nothing at atan atall an all of what was said As to fires it was possible to see soe a half dozen at once if he be wished and prize prizefights fights football games boat races and baseball w were re continual sources of fun fin Ile He used to spy into aU all sorts of things at first dc c all manner of wonderful happenings he knew just what everybody carried in his pockets acid oo he could read letters in the post office of flee fice if Itc he wished Thus he be knew where Uncle Amos spent his evenings how much money Mr Ir Barritt lad had in the bank and whose dogs were killing sheep nobody in the town could keep a secret from him so far as 85 it related to actions for he C could see everything J Later he found that ho he could detect diseases which had baffled even Dr Reynolds skill His Ilis Aunt Amanda Brewer was a lady who imAgined sIte she Jd had every disease in the known world and andas was as continually on the lookout for symptoms of o 1 new ones When hen she read the advertisement of any patent medicine she instantly imagined that slim shoo fE felt lt every pain and ache there thero described and in inthe inthe the course of one day she would have every S tom of a dos dor n awful illnesses very Tery plain and dis distinct distinct At one moment she would hare lUIte all the signs of the disease cured by Fiery Fever Pills then the Baldine advertisement would cause a queer feeling in her scalp next nest Celery Compound Jd had her all twisted with agony unspeakable able after which for a short period she sho would la Ia that she felt as if she needed Potters Per Perk vian Lung Jung Balsam Griggs German Capsules Irish loss ts Cod s Emulsion Liquid Air Inhaler Radium P Plasters and Talcum Powders gave her one nile after another spasms spasm of m mysterious aches s 1 read about them and anybody who wished to io afflict the good w woman man had llad but to send lier t r bY mail JliI the he circular of some me now ip medicine ciuc to tor r with Woo vet CL All her time was in 1 t l temperature watching her S symptoms pouring out d desea count counting jug ing her r puls and readi reading tile the testimonials of the latest inventions in the nt medicine line lino Upon Uon berJa conc t nagie heart and after carefully examining her Iter interior he 1141 told his trou troubled bled relations r who were constantly expecting Aunt Amanda to die lIC suddenly that she he was health healthiest iet iest in in Watertown But Aunt Amanda was AS Yer very indignant at his taking such a liberty ibert with wit her Iter Department of the Interior and said that bat when she did die she would leave nothing to Davy in town at l last t knew that lIe he was able abla to detect IU n ll hidden things thin and for a thine ti le Dy Davy was well weIl liked and actually made quite a good in income income come h by finding lost articles Thus lie di discovered a lost deed that had been hidden in a wall an for nearly a century and which gave Squire Gelwicks when it was taken to court complete possession of n a large tract of land an all built up with handsome houses IOU and stores for all this property had once belonged to his who had lost the deed Then again Da Davy gained a great reputation tion for miles around by seeking for and Kud finding a very valuable able coal mine on n a farm belonging to a p poor or inai who at once became ft a millionaire and who gave gaveDa Da Davy for the discovery discover lint ut as time pAssed began to worry over oyer his power of detecting secrets for all knew that nothing was hidden lidden from him im The Common Council at last held a meeting and decided that the magic heart must he be taken from him and amI placed in the City Han hall safety vault ault where the city charter harter the Civic Pride and the Freedom of th the City were stored along with the old and last years ballot boxes This was not to Davys s liking you ou maybe sure and amI as lie now had plenty of money he resolved resoled to foil the plotters b by running away So late at night Itc he slipped awa away and taking a train he was far from his bis horne home by morning and at the shores of another but greater r river er where ships ps lay at the wharves immense vessels that sailed to foreign lands with cargoes of all sorts On one of them The Sleeping Cow commanded by Captain Davy took passage to which is a country not far front froDl and near to stan Its not on any map so you look in your our geography for its too small smaIl to be put there It was ruled by King Oram the Ninetieth who had a daughter so surpassingly lovely that aU all his income was derived from charging ing visitors one dollar each just to look at her Iter for fora a few minutes Some wealthy young m inn n had be become become come poor gazing at her beautiful face others had squandered such v vast st sums that tIm the King was really a millionaire Still lie IC was as eager as ever to gather in the money and he md had issued a proclamation tion that for five dollars one might look at leer her and make a guess for dollars lie might stare at the lovely princess whose name vas as Cin for a half hour and have bave two guesses There were however so few visitors in of 01 late that dIRt scarcely ten a day came to the palace to see seo seethe tile the lovely and have a try at the rings Kings and to soy say some of them were never seen to come out of the palace after entering it Y X low ow as soon as the ship Was tied up at h r whaT tIle the captain crew and passengers heard all about this guessing business and they marveled much forit had all come about since the tho ship had bad been there before but as Davys curiosity was vastly c ex excited cited lIe he got out his magic glass and took n a long careful look at the Princess He was pleased with her Iter and with gazing on her ber beautiful l face lie soon fell in love loe with her also He resolved to visit isit the greedy King but before he did so lie c ex examined the thc whole palace to o discover what it was that the King made his visitors guess There happened luppen d to be a rich y young ung man from Pittsburg Pa three at tho time trying to ta make a proposition to the King Icing to lot let liim marry his ter Davy could not of sour cou lets kt hat was ft sat saW he had a 1 pretty good idea oL what was The ii kt had toW toil the yu young man that if he g gave n him two hundred thousand dollars and m guessed first what was in iii a certain bo box an and then wl what gt was behind a certain brass braES door lIe he might ask tIle the Princess to wed cd him lim lint but that was all The young man was quite confident that the Prin Princess cess would have hint because MIl all Pittsburg lads are arc very pleasing to princesses but he didn t want to tike take the risk of guessing as lie was a 1 poor or guesser But after a l tim he tried to hazard what was in the box and said it contained diamonds and then lie he declared that t the Princ Princess s herself stood behind the tho brazen door When lie he ha had 1 uttered the tho words the door flew 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