The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-02-18
A Hotel Scene.

nephew of the landlord lay sickin one of the
rooms on the third floor. He was to receive
medicine during the night from the hands
of a person who had been procured to "wstch"
with him. The landlord had instructed the
aforesaid watcher to administer potion OF
some little physic to the patient at / O'Clock;
the dose To be repeated at certain hours OF
the night.
I "He is rather techy," said the landlord,
land you had better keep out of his room
! until you go up to give him the medicine. u
"Oh, for that matter" replied the watch
er, who was a novice in the vocation, 81 pre-
fer to sit here" and he eyed a sofa which
was in the apartment in 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
without making such confounded fuss as
he made with the last dose. Tell him that
l say he must take tits good for him. u
"Yes, sir"
GOOD night"
Good night"
Boniface retired, and the watcher deposit
ed himself on the sofa, from which he was
reused by his own snoring at quarter before
one. In dismay and confusion he seized
the medicine and hurried up stairs.
The sick man was lodged in No. SO, but
the nurse in his haste mistook No. So, for it,
and entering the latter he saw person ly-
ing in the bed, face upward, with his mouth
wide open, respiring with that peculiar CUR
Ill ~, a., l.
and plethoric habit.
"Ah!" mentally exclaimed the astute
watcher, che makes fuss about taking his
medicine, does he? Pam blowed, though
if he don't take one dose quietly--bcfore he
wakes up, in fact!"
The idea of giving portion Of bitter ply.
sic to a somnolent patient was sufficiently
ridiculous; but when we consider that the
watcher had entered the wrong room and
was about to administers it to the wrong man,
the affair becomes still more ludcrous.
Our friend, the watcher, acted promptly,
and having filed the howl of a large spoon
with the nauseating mixture, he forced il
down the throat of the sleeping traveller,
who happened to be healthy Hibernian
that had never taste physic before in his life
The Irishmen struggled and bit the spoon
severely, but the watcher plunged it still
deeper in his throat, saying, as he did
So
ooh, but you must take 1.-THE landlord
says you must?
The nasty dose went down, butwhen Pat
rick recovered his breath, and began to pour
: forth his objurgatons in his own peculiar
:, rhetoric, the watches discovered that he had
r committed an gorgeous blunder, and, seizing
the light, fled from the room.
The astonished and enraged traveller spranq
from his bed, and was soon heard rushing
about in search Of the landlord, swearing
4 vengeance againsthm and all connected witt
s his house. On he came, tearing through
the passages, banging the doors, and roaring
like grizzly-bull
"Oo-oo-oh it's kilt anu, be dad, any how
r Au-ugh I'm chowked wild plsin Divil BIZ
: iv faFrum in the wisthren country will
, buy now, for am dead man! The pisr
is atng me up just Och, it's ekoug tc
. make q dog throw his father in the fire J.
> Howly Saint Pathrick Landlord! land
0 lord land-lo- 90 o-rr-rd Il"
. Pat had by this time descinded to the floor
. on which the landlords apartment was situa.
ted, and the worthy host, hearing the hula
, buIloo, opened his door and asked what wa,
the matter?
: "Ah, is it there yc are? Come out for &
. bating-or let me come til ye! Add pur
ty house yere kapen, to sind your man into
an honest travellers room topoison theinno
cent divil in bis shape! Ugh! the bitter
!. nasty pison come out here, and I'll lathel
i ye like blazesF' ..
WHAT'S the matter, my good friend
inquired Boniface.
: Ow, the matter. is it,!-when | was
: walked from my swate slape, and big dirty
r blaggard stood fornint me, remain big la
down me throat, full of pison-sn' sez he
you must take it; the landlord sez so = and
= now, whats the matter? sez you! An that,
one of yer thrcks on thravellers Come ou
= here, ar I'll bate ye. Be the blood of the
howly mariners, I'll brake livery bone in yel
body I'll tache veto pison adjacent thrav
Ter, that's goin' to buy land in the wis.
! thern eounthry?"
The Irishman here became entangled in
: in the meshes ofa wooden settee which stood
n in his way, and, at the same time the land
lords wife seized her worthy lord, although
> Ghost in himself, she was not willing tt
: risk him in rough and tumble fight in tho
dark-and having plucked him back into
t her sleeping apartment, she locked the door
= and bOlted it securely
The prospe ctiye purchaser of "wistherr
lands" having extricated his legs and arm.
from those of the settee, still thristed for thu
Y landlords blood.
t Bring me til the murtherin ould vilyan
:, let me coue at him p
At this juncture, however, Mick, the host
; Ter, made his appearance with lantern
: which he held up to the physlc-smeared face
i Of the enraged travler, with polite reques
O that he would "hould hrs tong" But Miel
was at last compelled to>give his fellow
countrymen good beating, which had thu
; effect to restore him to good humor, ant
n when he found that he was not poisoned
}. after all, he retired once more to his bed tt
dream of the "farrum" which he was goinl
to buy in the "westhern country"
EETo spite fellow that is waiting OF
your girl, Just hide his hat, under the stove
for instance. Butcherknives and buck
wheat cakes but its capital.