Judge — April 21, 1888 — page 10: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JUDGE THE BENDER'S RETREAT TOPOGRAPHY, 4 ASPAR W. FEEDPIPE of Kensico, N. 7 morning recently and found that by a clo brutal and aval vars as a hardware, dry-goods and meat de hundred and eighteen waked up one including protest fee and interest. Casting about for an investment, his hook caught on to an announcement which set forth the advantages to be gaine equirement of some town lots in Bende Retre d with a caution born of life in Kensico, and an inabil y in chirog. ked his son William to writ descripti property, with a view toward careful investi- id possible pu William was vary the post-oflice by a and current ¢ ial sec his duties as stamping clerk in meral and home-made course in tly aroused his in- terest: in study he sent, in the same mail with his father’s letter, a request toa Philadelplua publishing house for a rt showing the details of the works involved. How those two requests, whic nd similarly, * please send a picturshewin’ latest dises vs of the plaice,” got mixed in the mail, nobody but a man who has had in- timate dealings with a country post-office can tell, but that it was so was proven in the course of du . William never medicin read simply “ard from his v y after the event of its mailing re- 1s coal-yard, left home for tment as night-watehn Two or three weeks so blurred as to be illegible, came directed to Mr. Feedpipe, who found, after taking it to the hay-mow so as toavoid the prevalent Westchester county curiosity, that it contained a map of which the adjoined is a copy. He smoothed it out on the barn floor, laid down over it with his chin on his hands, studied it long and earnestly, and then, with and unsatisfied look on his face * with post-mark As Mr. Feedpipe A after it was wri perhaps, to ; . ' it of the sprays of original and unique LASYNX 1 spelling. on, penmanship and blots and offer only a free translation, which ap- proached this: ' ' at * Manaaen ov THe UttiMateM Laxp AND Carrie Co. BENDER'S RETREAT, ARIZONA ty which you kindly aples of color-work I * Dear sir inclosed to me ‘ever saw, but in some part “To begin with, in sewer a sewer and not a experience of drainage, I fail e why you carry the pipe across instead of into the river. Another thing in this con- nection puzzles, and [may say discourages ine. If the citizens of that flat town on the east side of the river get up artificial breaths of a p run their canal through your town of Windpipe? By the way, all right for vs ff you will map them nav Hawthorne rk, Windsor Terrace, or Tuxedo Grange sou will find that you will ket more ti Jays of * let me know whether the dot ted line at the top of the map ix a fence or a crvek, and if the latter, how the fishing is, 1 like to flab, and last week caught a pickerel CHURLISHNESS REBUKED, up considerable room, Guess ua punch with his elbore.) eR—" That man's takin TI give him a reminder!” (Lets yo a treme ‘A FLYING EXPERIMENT IN SHANTYTOWN. Gams (attached tw kite)" Say, Spudsey, If yer don't let me outer dis right away I'll knock de duff outen yer when 1 git 3 ya bear: weighing two feet ten ounces from his bead to bis dressed diameter. “Tsuppose the spot marked *B* on the map isa bar. room, ax I understand they are getting prevalent in the west but please tell me whether the A’ means ‘Abbatoir’ or * Arsenal,” as I have had some experience in the meat bu ness and would prefer to have my claim staked in a congenial locality. “Am glad to note that you have laid out a race-track between the breath-way and the tube opening, and will say bow that I own a brown mare that can trot the stuffing out of anything of her length in these parts “Let me hear from you again, and perbaps wecan make a dicker. Yours invariably C.W. Feeppire.” Mr. Feedpipe’s supposed map chart description of the operation of nd had been mailed from Phila he interest of his son’s education. lightened the old man, and he has been haunting the post-office ever since for re- tion regarding Bender's Retreat. JAMES & GOODWIN, The man who drinks to drown his sorrows “ W-what in blazes have you got in that b-bundle?"" Ocr messexoen— be a for-rty-pound littygraphic shtone fer th’ paper, doan’ know as it's anny av sure business, but it dc comicbooks.com Ew