Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-02-14
DOING A TRAvELLER-A HOTEL SCENE. /

actually occurred, as can be proved by a cloud Of
witnesses who have heard the landlord tell the
story.
The hotel referred to was, on the occasion of
which we are speaking rather full, and the nephew
of the landlord lay sick in of the rooms the
third floor. He was to receive medicine during the
night from the hands of person who had been
procured to "watch" with him. The landlord had
instructed the aforesaid watcher to administer a
potion of some little physic to the patient at twelve
O'Clock; the dose to be repeated at certain hours
of the night s#
"He is rather techy," said the landlord /" and
you had better keep out of his room until you 90
up to give him the medicine"
"Oh, for that NATTER replied the watcher, who
novice in the vocation, Il prefer to sit here y
in a suspicious manner.
"Well," said the landlord, "you won't forget the
number of his room?"
"No, SIR"
"And tell him he must take his medicine with
out making such COMPOUNDED fuss as he made
with the last dose. Tell him that say he must
take tits good for him.
! ayes, sir"
GOOD night"
"Good night"
Boniface retired, and the watcher deposited him
self on the sofa, from which he reused by his
own snoring at a quarter before one. In dismay
and confusion he seized the potion and hurried up
! stairs.
The sick man was lodged in No. So, but the
nurse in his haste mistook No SO for it, and enter
ing the latter he saw person lying in the bed,
face upward, with his mouth wide open, respiring
with that peculiar gurgle in the throat which indi
Gates strong lungs and plethoric habit.
"Ah!" mentally exclaimed the astute watcher,
"he makes fuss about taking his medicine, does
he9 I'm bowed, though, if he don't take one dose
quietly-before he wakes up in fact"
| 8 &c
somnoent patient was sufficiently ridiculous; but
when we consider that the watcher had entered
the wrong room, and was about to administer it
to the wrong man, the affair becomes still more
! ludcrous.
| Our friend, the watcher acted promptly, and
having filled the bowl of large spoon with the
nauseating mixture, he forced it down the throat
of a sleeping traveller who happened to be heal
thy Hibernian that had never tasted physc before
in his life. The lrishman struggled and bit the
spoon severely, but the watcher plunged it still
deeper in his throat, saying, as he did so,
"Oh but you mast take 1.-THE landlord says
you must ~
The nasty dose went down, but when Patrick
recovered his breath and began to pour forth his
objurgations in his peculiar rhetoric, the
watcher discovered that he had committed an eyre
gious blunder, and Selling his light, fed from the
room.
The astonshed and enraged traveller sprang
from his bed, and was soon heard rushing about in
search of the landlord, swearing vengeance against
him and all connected with his house. On he
came, tearing through the passages, banging the
doors, and roaring like grizly-bul
COCOON! It's kilt l am, be dad, any how.
Au-ugh I'm chawked with pison! Divil bit iv
a tarrum in the wisthern country will l buy
for am dead man! The pison is ating me
up just. Och! it's enough to make dog throw
his father in the fire Holy Saint Patrick Land
lord! landlord !! land-lo-o-o-or-r-rdw
Pat had, by this time, DESCENDED to the floor on
which the landlords apartment situated, and
the worthy host, hearing this hillabulloo, opened
his door and asked what was the matter
"Ah! is it there We are? Come out for bat
ing-or let me come till ye! ID poorly
house yere kapen, to sind yere man into an honest
travellers to pison the innocent divil in his
Shape! Ugh! the bitter, nasty pison! come out
here, an I'll lather We like blazes p
whats the NATTER my good friend 2" inquired
Boniface.
GOV! the matter is it?-when l was walked
from my swate Shape and big dirty blaggard stood
fornint me- rammin big IG-odLe down my trote
full ov pison-an' he, We must take it, the land
lord seq so: And now, what's the matter, SEE you!
An that's of yere tricks on travellers Come
out here and I'll ba-ate ye. Be the blood of the
holy mariners, I'll brake livery bone in yer body !!
I'll tache We to pson dacint thraveller, that's 60
in to buy land in the wisthern country p
The 1rishman here became entangled in the
meshes of wooden settee which stood in his way,
and, at the same time, the landlords wife seized
her wrathy lord-although "host" in himself
she was not willing to risk hirA in rough and
tumble fight in the dark-and having plucked him
back into the sleeping apartment, she locked the
door and bolted it securely.
The prospective purchaser of "wsthern lands"
having extricated his legs and arms from those of
the settee, still thirsted for the landlords blood.
bring me till the murtherin ould villyan; let
me come at him %
At this juncture, however, Mike, the hostler,
made his appearance with a lantern, which he held
up to the physic-smeared face of the enraged ira
weller, with polite request that he would hould"
his tongue. But Mike at last compelled to
give his fellow-countryman good beating, which
had the effect to restore him to good humor, and
when he found that he not psoned after all,
he retired once more to his bed to dream of the
:. .tarrwne" which he was going to buy in the
|" wisthern country" Boston Times.
MEDICAL USE OF SALT. In many cases of dis
ordered stomach, teaspoon full of salt is certain
cure. In the violent internal aching, termed chol
ic, add teaspoon full of salt to pint of cold
ter-drink it and go to bed it is one of the speedi