Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-01-26
From the ". o. Picayune.
"FiFe in the Rear"-Latest Joke.

FIfo III Tue keaf -LaLeSt joke,
There was fun as we'll as fighting
down in the neighborhood of the Rio
Grande, last summer, and a Yankee in
that section, about tolerably shrewd
specimen of the genius, got "a fire in the
rear" which raked down and demolished
the best calculations ever made for a small
fortune, and at the same time raised a
laugh which filed the adjoining chapparoI
for mile in every direction.
Water was scarce during the heat of
summer at Brazos Island, and liquor not
so plentiful at times as the necessities OF
the sojourners required. 1t was in one
of these thirsty seasons that our Yankee,
by some hook or crook, got held of bar.
rel of tolerably fair cider, and with this
stock in trade he ''set up" business
To rake aud scrape together parcel OF
boards and old bits of canvass, enough to
build small shanty, was the work ofbut
a short hour to set his barrel upon a
couple of skids in the back pa sfthe tent,
to tap it and to commence i billing the
cider at dime a glass occupied but a
short time more.
Customers focked in by the dozens, the
cider went off at rapid rate, and the
Yankee was making his @eternal fortin' .
Eat stride that would have elaied John
Jacob Astor in his early days: Some of
his patrons complained that dime glass
for cider, which was not worth more than
two dollars barrel at the outside, was an
enormous price; bit the times were hard,
the retailers conscience easy--he had all
the cider in the market. and could not &c.
ford to sell any cheaper. M
This state of things went on for an en-
tire the Yankee being neset by throags
ofpatrons. On the following morning and
before the cider was yet half sold, they
began to thin off gradually, and by the
middle of the afternoon it was only now
and then that a Struggling stranger visit.
cd the shade and cider of the retailer.-
What was the matter? What hSd caused
this sudden falling off of custom! The
reader will soon see. t4
Towards night new face appeared in
the shanty and called for glass of cider.
It WAS drawn, swallowed, and the Gus.
toner took out his purse and enquired the
price. .sa
zone dime" said the Yankee.
"One ,ehat 2" retorted the customer.
"One dime," coolly replied the Yankee.
''One h-ll," snarled the customer
"why, can get just as good cider here at
fire cents a glass" ~ g b.
"N-o-y- o-u-c-a-n.t," drawled the YAM
kee, ''there aint pint of cider 'cept what
I've got in that are barriI, this side of Or
leans, I'm darned ifthere is"
II know BETTER" ejscuIatedthe custom
er tartly. 81 bought glass Of cider not
two hours ago, and only paid five cents for
it," sH .-.sss..ss. (.
"I'd like to know where you effected
that small transaction" queried the YAM
kee. -s, , Il.
"Right round here" was the answer.
81 guess it. was right round here.''-
Right round sohere, I'd like to know con.
tinued the cider vender.
"Why, close by here, somewhere-iust
back of your place. returned the custom.
er. ggs.g4
:lel bet Jontu drinks you didn't spoke
up the Yankee, ''and veil go right round
and sec. a,fseta. ..t +.
"Done," said the customer and off they
started. $50 ..ff r. .st.ts + 81
Sure enough, fright round here" they
found another cider establishment in ful
blast. A second Yankee had rugged a
small shade in the rear of the. first Van.
KEGS shanty, had tapped the other end o.
the latter's barrel through a board, and
was retailing il al 5 cents glass to per-
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