The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-11-18
The MistaIIe ola Might.

Queer things occur "amid the blaze Of
noon," but queerer still take place among
the still hours Of the night Tie following,
for instance, is one Of the queerest In the
category, as Watts says:
'The rds of darkness we have done,
Must all appear before the SUM-"
1t may not be quite improper to make itpub-
! lie, positive that the parties therein concern
ed will not object thereto, as their identity
must remain 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. Land
lords eeonomized room and space with amaz-
ing cunning, packing as many as three men
| IN bed, on dog-day night too; or on the
f1oor In such copious confusion as to make
the property of certain set Of limbs to par
tlcular body matter of serious doubt. Bon
liace could not put out single individual,
but he could put him away some how or 9TH
er.
One of these good natured hosts, howev-
er, was saoly perplexed where to lodge a
particular friend. He could not, consistent
ly, with correct notions Of amity, run a pole
out of the window aud request his friend to
roost for the night, as a Kentucky landlord
is reported to have done when pressed for
room, and it was only after good deal Of
calculation that bright and generous idea
came to his and his friends relief.
"My old woman's gone to see her folks, %
snid he, sand won't come home till to-mor-
row, now you take my bed, for | shan't have
occasion for it, seeing must attend the
folks, and keep them 'arc chaps, scattered
on the dinner hall floor from fighting"
10, 81 tNnly n
Bonlace's bed, sunk up to his nose among
the feathers, and soon went to the land o
Nod, thanking his stars for having escaped
from the confusion below. Had he known
what some poet had written, with chuckle
smothered in his two pair Of pillows, h
might have exclaimed
ain this tur ultuors sphere for thee unfit,
How seldom art thou found, tranquility
, He slept and snored, but twas for littl
while only. An intruder appeared, and h
, awoke with this inquiry, b..
, "Who that"
"Its me, old man-go 10 sleep again,
was the reply, given in female accent, 'bu
don't take up all the bed"
= 81 amt your old man." said the stranger
whose nose, by the way, sngularly resc m
bled that of Boniface, whose wife the reade
}, has already guessed to be the new conner.
. Being very bashful the poor fellow drew tn
' Clothes over hishead, and in smothered tone
besought the landlady to clear right out.
"Just as expected" exclaimed the ol
= woman, "drunk again, when the house
/, full of folks what can steal, rob, and murd'
i the whole of U.S." and she proceeded to til
# bed side, and grouping in the dark, contrive
: to uncover the unfortunate mans head, al
5, he had to take it in every sense of the wor,
l. Being q bachelor he had merely heard of
;, matrimonial combing down on the locks, ,bu
n his experience Of the operation so far ou
e stripped his conceptions, that he bellow(
!, most Justify.
= "Cry murder and raise the whole hous
l. will you!" cried the landlady, shaking h
e victims scalp from the root almost.
70 "Let me CO." shouted the man, Il air
IL yer man, murder! murder!"
: The last yell, wrung by the intense pa
rs from the greatest power of the sufferer
,r lungs, brought Boniface and a posse to Il
= door. A general rush was made to the apal
j. ment and the matter was soon eXplnine
amid the shouts OF the aSsembuge.
"Now," whispered the Jolly landlord,
D his friends ear, when leading them to "iic
j. err" just think how I've got to be p
>. through"