| Show TALL TALES As told to FRANK E RAGAN HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON steel darivin man or S BISHOP who knows tho tha H history of the chesapeake and ahlo railroad backward as well as forward and vice versa has often heard the old timers tell about the difficulties they had bad in driving a tunnel through bruzee mountain among the negro laborers they hired was a young fellow named john henry a likely lad ad only seven or eight feet trill tall right away they discovered that john henry ans a mighty good hammer man even though he got his growth yet ile he ins as so fast with his 12 pound hammer that tie lie wore out its handle every nine minutes he always allays had to have a boy standing by with a pall of ice water so lie he could keep the hammer from melting the result of this was that the 0 and 0 had to hire a ging gang of tony beavers to log oft off tho the whole state of wiit west t virginia in order to provide joho john fleory with enough hammer bandics hand lis to 10 keep him busy also they had I 1 make the potomac river run backards birk aeils arils so be ba enough water on hand to keep his hammer cool just about the lie time john henry began to wear out a lia handle adle every six and three quarter minutes a fellow showed up with a steam driven drill and challenged john henry to a drilling contest boss man how many days you all want sos I 1 wont ketch up with yu too soon asked john henry the steam drill man said start at the same time so at it they went and ns as everybody lu in i f the south knows john henry beat dat steam drill down rock hock was high po john was nas low well he laid down his hammac hammah an he died laid down his bammah an tie be died it was too bad that the contest resulted fatally for the victor it if john henry had ever grown up to be a full size man he might have hung up some real records as a steel darivin man the good ship wobble HB first stories about the good T TUB ship wobble were written by frank ward Ol lalley alley and printed in the new york sun but other newspaper men have added details to its ita history it was OA lalley of the sun however who first interviewed its master capt heinle and discovered that he quite sane captain heinle had been a second story man in new york when he sought new fields for his talents in africa and found that the houses there were only one story high the rhe disappointment unbalanced his mind for that thai matter his ship was a bit unA unbalanced lanced also it had only one pad dle wheel and that was mounted on the starboard side so when the wobble started out on a voyage with ltd its cargo of subways and artesian wells it just steamed around and around in a circle and never got anywhere to correct this defect catain captain 1 heinle junked bunked the engine and P paddle addle wheel installed masts and sails and set lut ut across the atlantic pour four anil and i halt lays daya out the ship ran into what seemed to be a I 1 dense black cloud but the captain soon found that it was a flock of mosquitoes by the time the tha wobble had passed through them the insects had eaten off every scrap of sail and tarred rope from the lie ship for a month the ship drifted drift eil with the tides off the coast of south america it again ran into a cloud of mosquitoes by a queer coincidence it was the very same flock allock that hid had stripped the ship captain heinle knew they were the same sam because every mosquito quito wore a pair of canvas overalls ralls made from his sails held field up by tarred rope suspenders A shout for bellow ROUND HOUND horse florse caie cae kentucky athe A the natives will tell jou somewhat pridefully that never neer be 3 able to 0 get the best of 0 Iler herman nian Be bellow f fler fliermans mans knowledge cinie came from a study udy of nature in the numerous av IN erns of his beig neighborhood libo once an Engli sliman visited vasill d horse cave so the batory goes and engaged in III argument with herman the re suit stilt was a bet the loser to be thes the man who answer his hij own question 0 said herman florman why Is it a wood chuck chuch leaves no dirt when he digs a hole your que question tion retorted the an englishman lishman because ec ause he be starts to dig the hole it the lie bottom instead of at the lop herman proudly ilist but how doca he get to the hot bot im III the briton wanted to know your question I 1 cracked her oan nun bellow 0 western newspaper unload |
