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Show UNCLE IKE "SAW THINGS." Ohottly Visitors That Disturbed Slumbers Slum-bers of Watchman. "I's got dat Job as wntchcrman y sont me," said Old I'nclo Iko, tho well-knowrf well-knowrf district building lnborer, "nn" I ccrt'ny Is obleegod tor you. Won I repohted foh dooty do boss say, 'Ike, henh's Bum lautruns for to put on do rtukj sum of dom Is red nnd sum of dom Is green Do red wuns mus' bo sot at e.ieh en' of do oxkervashuu mid do green wuns mus' bo placed tor show how do Hah engums kin git or-cross or-cross do dm h ' 'Jos' so, boas,' I soz, 'but whah Is I gUno to bo elashuiieil?' You mus' go to dat trench on Hrtuht-wood Hrtuht-wood nu'iioo, Just crlongsldo of dnt sojer's cemetery, nn' stay dab frum six p. m to six a. m.' Geo! I cum nenh f row In' up do Job right don an' dab, for 1 so pow'ful Bkcorcd ob night doctnhs Hut dnt night I tuk tho Inn-trims Inn-trims out to do ditch nnd bull' mo u llttl' Cab m do night m col'. 1 kop' looklj' in c ' -"T.Nojnrd tor coo of' nnyvun nl. dom nljht dectnhs m prcwlln' e i bout. Den I gits tor feclm' sleepy, but 1 kick myself e l.ttl' wlnl' bos( iti keep mo wnked up At last I v. cut toi oleep, nnd guess what 1 dreamt' I ilieamt I Haw n skellng-ton skellng-ton cumin' outen dat graveyard drag-gin' drag-gin' hlo too.ns'un behln' him wld n pleco b winh, nn ho com' orlom; to'nds iin 1U bin' him wuz crnuddcr skcllngton d aggln' crnuddcr Btun Do ono behln sny, 'Hoy, John, whntcher lenvln' dc ce: ctery fob?' 'Well, I tell yeh,' saa do fua' one, 'I'so been Bloep-In Bloep-In poac(ful. in m' grabo for ten yeah, when In ah dey cum crlong nn' put my wife eilongsldo me, an' she no soonur got i'ih don 8ho ciimmcns fus-sin' fus-sin' ns iisunl I can' stun' it any longnh, and I'so gwlno tor move Whnt Is yoh trubblo?' 'My grabo Is too damp,' say do udder wun, 'an' gibs mo do rhournatlz.' "Well, 'lone; 'bout dnt tlmo I wakes up by heahlu' do flab cngum cumin' down do road. I runs ter seo If do dubbel green lights wuz set nil right, an' dey wuz, on' do flab cngum run by." Washington Star. |