The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-02-03

! Queer things occur 'amid the blaze of noon,'
but queerer still take place among tao still
hours of the night. The following, for in
stance, is one of the queerest in the category,
as Watts says:
| ''The deeds Of darkness we have done,
| Must all appear before the sun ~
It may not be quite improper TO make il public.
positive that the parties therein concerned will
not object thereto, as their identity must re-
main a mystery to the inquisitive:
1t was on public occasion, when all the
hotels in--. call the place what you will.
were filled from top TO bottom. Landlord econ
omized room and space with amazing cunning
packing as many as three men in bed. on
dog day night, too or on the floor in such CO.
Infusion as to make the property of limbs mat
ter of serious doubt. Bonface could not put
ont single individual. bM he could put him
away soue how or other.
One of these good natured hosts hosts how
ever, was sadly perplexed where to lodge a
particular friend. He conld not, consistently,
with correct notions of amity. run pole out of
the window and request his friends to roost for
the night. as a Kentucky landlord is reported
to have done when pressed for room and il was
only after a good deal Of calculation that a
bright and generous idea came to his and his
friends relief
My old womans gone TO see her folks"
said he. land won't come home till Tomorrow
now you take my bed for shan't have occa-
sion for II, seeing | must attend the folks, and
keep them ARE chaps, scattered on the dinner
hall floor from ighIiog."
Accordingly the guest took possession of
Boniface's bed. sunk up to his nose among The
feather. and soon went to the land Of Nod.
thanking his stars for having escaped from the
confusion below. Had he known what some
poet had written. with chukle, smothered in
his pair of pillows, he might have exclaimed
''In this tumultuous sphere for thee unfit.
How seldom art thou found tranquility
He slept and snored, but il was for little
while only. An intruder appeared, and he
awake with the inquiry.
WHO thar
''It's me. old mango to sleep again. was
the reply. given in female accent, 'but don't
take up a ] the bed "
III amt your old man." said the stranger,
whose nose. by the way, singularly resembled
that of Boniface, whose wife the reader has al !
ready guessed to be the new conner. Being
very bashful the poor fellow drew the clothes
over his head, and smotbered tones besought |
the andady to clear right out
"Just as I expected" exclaimed the old wo-
man, drunk again when the house is full of |
folks what can steal, rob- and murder the whole /
Of u.s." and she proceeded to the bed side, and |
grouping in the dark, contrived to uncover the
unfortunate mans head, and he had to take il
In every sense of the word. Being a batchclor
he had merely heard of a matrimonial combing
iown Of the locks but his experience of the
operation so far outstripped his conceptions,
hat he beloved most Justify.
"Cry murder and raise the whole house. will
your cried the landlady, shaking her votem
'calp from the root almost.
"Let me 60" shouted the man., 81 amt yer
nan. murder! mufderl"
The last yell, wrung by the intense pain
rom the greatest power Of sufferers lungs.
'rought Boniface and posse to the door. A
!eneral rush was made to the apartment. and
he matter was soon explained. amid tho shouts
4 the assemblsge.
SNOW" whispered the jolly landlord. in his
ricnd's ear. when leading them to 'licker,"
nst think how I've got to be put through"
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