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Extraordinary Death Of The American Sea-Serpent.
to America in no time at all , at all ; so get your dispatches ready , and a compass out of the binnacle , ancl I'll go before , and tell ' em that you are on he road And do you , Bill , ' says he , talking to a powder monkey , fetch me that lot of bullocks' bladders out of the jolly boat' Well when he had got the bladders , what do ye think he did then ? By the hill o Howth he did nothing at all but jump right on the back of the ! the cratur
pJl iu , ' s ^ , 'I ' ve got ye safe enough now , Paddy Murphy , I calculate . ' 'By the trident of Neptune / said . faddy , ( paying a compliment to the sea-god , ) ' you may say that wid your own ugly mug , and ye are likel y to keep me longer than ye bargain for . Well , with that he made no more ado but began to fasten a bladder by way of a night-cap upon the head of the monster , who thought to make a dive to the bottom of the sea , but the divil a bit could he put his head under the
waves , in course , because of Pat Murphy ' s cunning . ' What the divil are ye at ? ' says the sarpint . ' 'Niver you trouble your head about that , ' says Pat Murphy ; and wid that he slips down his tack , and ties another here and another there , till he came to the cratur s tail ; ' and now , ' says he , ' my fine fellow , 111 get you to carry me to Phildel phi . ' Well , the captain , sure enough gave him his dispatches and compass , and a good keg of whiskey to sling over his shoulder ; and Pat , sticking his knife into the sarpint , away they wint at a thundering rate through the wide ocean . " AVell , —when they had travelled all night , says the sarpint to Pat
-uurpny , l m mighty hungry , and should be much obliged if ye'd let me go down for to get my breakfast . ' ' By no manes at all / says Pat -or I m but just going to get my own , and so ye see we'll have a snack together ; and he makes no more to clo , but outs wid his knife , and whips off the end of the sarpint ' s tail , to the no small surprise of the cratur Well , if ! ver ! ' said the sarpint— ' that ' s free and aisy , any how ; but you r no friend o' mine , Paddy Murphy , to be cutting off mv tail for breakfast' Take bit
your . ' a ov it / said Pat , shoving a piece into his mouth , 'sure its no matter at which end ye have it , —may be ye'll think that enough to contint ye till dinner time . ' " Great were the wonders that the sarpint tould Pat Murphy of what was at the bottom of the sea , to make him take off the bladders , ancl dive wid him to see the sights ; but Pat wasn ' t to be blarneyed that way - tor himself was the boy that had kissed the raal stone , ancl wandered all among
' The groves of Blarney that are so charming . ' Well ,-at tioon the sun became blazing hot , and Padd y piped all hands to dinner in a good boatswain-like manner , when he heard the sarpint declare he was half broiled wid the heat . ' Many thanks to ye / says laddy , for the information ; sure I ' ve been waiting to hear that same tor the last two hours ; and now , what say ye , honey , to a joint or two more of your own tail ? ' ' Don ' t mention it / says the sarpint , ' for the last bit t stomach intirel
wenagainst my y . ' ' You ' ve a mighty dainty stomach of your own , then / said Paddy , with a cunning look , ' but as J . m b y no manes m life particular , why here goes for the first cut . You should have seen , said Pat Murphy to me , ' how the monster lashed the waves , and wriggled and spit fire ancl smoke , at such a rate that the people on board all the ships that were in sight took it for a steampacket at full speed ; and sure enough we left a train of smoke behind us lor miles ancl miles in length /—but all wouldn ' t do to get Paddy off the back of him , for he breakfasted , dined , and supped off the sarpint for
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Extraordinary Death Of The American Sea-Serpent.
to America in no time at all , at all ; so get your dispatches ready , and a compass out of the binnacle , ancl I'll go before , and tell ' em that you are on he road And do you , Bill , ' says he , talking to a powder monkey , fetch me that lot of bullocks' bladders out of the jolly boat' Well when he had got the bladders , what do ye think he did then ? By the hill o Howth he did nothing at all but jump right on the back of the ! the cratur
pJl iu , ' s ^ , 'I ' ve got ye safe enough now , Paddy Murphy , I calculate . ' 'By the trident of Neptune / said . faddy , ( paying a compliment to the sea-god , ) ' you may say that wid your own ugly mug , and ye are likel y to keep me longer than ye bargain for . Well , with that he made no more ado but began to fasten a bladder by way of a night-cap upon the head of the monster , who thought to make a dive to the bottom of the sea , but the divil a bit could he put his head under the
waves , in course , because of Pat Murphy ' s cunning . ' What the divil are ye at ? ' says the sarpint . ' 'Niver you trouble your head about that , ' says Pat Murphy ; and wid that he slips down his tack , and ties another here and another there , till he came to the cratur s tail ; ' and now , ' says he , ' my fine fellow , 111 get you to carry me to Phildel phi . ' Well , the captain , sure enough gave him his dispatches and compass , and a good keg of whiskey to sling over his shoulder ; and Pat , sticking his knife into the sarpint , away they wint at a thundering rate through the wide ocean . " AVell , —when they had travelled all night , says the sarpint to Pat
-uurpny , l m mighty hungry , and should be much obliged if ye'd let me go down for to get my breakfast . ' ' By no manes at all / says Pat -or I m but just going to get my own , and so ye see we'll have a snack together ; and he makes no more to clo , but outs wid his knife , and whips off the end of the sarpint ' s tail , to the no small surprise of the cratur Well , if ! ver ! ' said the sarpint— ' that ' s free and aisy , any how ; but you r no friend o' mine , Paddy Murphy , to be cutting off mv tail for breakfast' Take bit
your . ' a ov it / said Pat , shoving a piece into his mouth , 'sure its no matter at which end ye have it , —may be ye'll think that enough to contint ye till dinner time . ' " Great were the wonders that the sarpint tould Pat Murphy of what was at the bottom of the sea , to make him take off the bladders , ancl dive wid him to see the sights ; but Pat wasn ' t to be blarneyed that way - tor himself was the boy that had kissed the raal stone , ancl wandered all among
' The groves of Blarney that are so charming . ' Well ,-at tioon the sun became blazing hot , and Padd y piped all hands to dinner in a good boatswain-like manner , when he heard the sarpint declare he was half broiled wid the heat . ' Many thanks to ye / says laddy , for the information ; sure I ' ve been waiting to hear that same tor the last two hours ; and now , what say ye , honey , to a joint or two more of your own tail ? ' ' Don ' t mention it / says the sarpint , ' for the last bit t stomach intirel
wenagainst my y . ' ' You ' ve a mighty dainty stomach of your own , then / said Paddy , with a cunning look , ' but as J . m b y no manes m life particular , why here goes for the first cut . You should have seen , said Pat Murphy to me , ' how the monster lashed the waves , and wriggled and spit fire ancl smoke , at such a rate that the people on board all the ships that were in sight took it for a steampacket at full speed ; and sure enough we left a train of smoke behind us lor miles ancl miles in length /—but all wouldn ' t do to get Paddy off the back of him , for he breakfasted , dined , and supped off the sarpint for