Kentucky Gazette

ReMarkAble Escape.—On the passage of the
ship Anaxander, from New Orleans, to New York.
a young lad about fourteen years, from a naturally
frolicksome and mischievous disposition, became so
troublesome in his pranks, that it was threatened
by the Captain if they were continued that he
would confine him in a water cask. Our youngster
took no heed however, and at his next offence
was put in the cask, which was headed up, leaving
a large bunghole for the admission of air. That
night the ship encountered a violent storm and in
a sudden lurch, the cask containing the boy, rolled
over into the sea. The circumstance was not noticed
by those on board. Fortunately the cask
struck bung up, and floated about thirty hours,
when it was thrown upon the Beach at Cape St.
Blas. Here the boy made desperate efforts to extricate
himself from his prison without success, and
in despair gave up to die. Some cows however
strolling on the Beach were attracted to the cask,
and in walking around it, one of the number it being
fly time, switched her tail into the bung hole,
which the lad grasped with a desperate resolution.
The cow bellowed and set off for life, and after running
some two hundred yards with the cask, struck
it against a log on the beach, and knocked it as we
say, into a cock'd hat. The Boy thus providentially
released was discovered by some fishermen on
the Point and taken into Appalachicola, where a
small collection being made for him, he was enabled
to proceed North by the way of Columbus.—
St. Joseph Times.

That's a d-d lie Tim, as the vintner in the
suds said, on listening to a similar tale.