Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — How to Start an Echo. [ARTICLE]

How to Start an Echo.

We cannot vouch for the truth of the following story, but an Austin gentleman said he was an eye-witness of the occurrence. He was on a steamboat on the Hudson river with a party of excursionists. The boat stopped at a place in the river where there is is a wonderful echo. One of the gentlemen asked everybody in the crowd for a pistol with which to wake up the echoes. Nobody had any pistol, but a gentleman from Arkansaw said -that he had something that was a darned sight more reliable than a pistol, and, pulhng out of his boot a knife with a thirteeninch blade, handed it over to the party who wanted to stir up the- echoes.— Texas Siftings.