The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-02-01
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the sofa which was in the apartment, in
suspicious manner.
"Well," said the landlord, "you won't
forget the number ofhis room?"
mo, sir"
"And tell him he must take his medi-
cine without making such a confounded
fuss as he made with the last dose. Tell
HIM that say he must take tits good
for him."
e. " Yes, sir"
GOOD night"
GOOD night"
BoRiface retired, and the watcher de-
posted himself on the sofa, from which he
was reused by his own snoring at d quar-
ter 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 entering the latter, he saw a person
lying in the bed, face upward, with his
mouth wide open, respiring with that pc
culiar gurgle in the throat which indicates
strQnglungs and u plethoric habit.
"Ah! mentally exclaimed the astute
watcher, "he makes fuss about taking
hs medicine, does he! I'm blowed, though
if he don't take one dose quietly-beiore
he wakes up, in fact"
The idea of giving a portion Of bitter
physic to a somnolent patient was suffi-
ciently ridiculous: but when we consider
that the watcher had entered the wrong
room and WAS about to administer il to
the wrong man, the affair becomes still
more ludicrous.
Our friend, the watcher, acted promptly
and having filed the bowl of large spoon
with the nauseating mixture, he forced it
down the, throat OF sleeping traveller,
who happened to be healthy Hibernian
that had never tasted physic 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 must take 1.-THE land
lord says you mustm
The nasty dose went down, but when
Patrick recovered his breath and began
to pour forth his ohjurgations in his own
peculiar rhetoric, The watcher discovered
that he committed an egregious blunder,
and selling his light, fled from the room.
The astonishcd 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 grizzly-bull.
"Co-oo-oh! It's kilt | am, be; dad,
any how. Au-ugh! I'm chawked with
pison ! Dvil bit iv tarruu, in the
wisthren country will buy now for
am dead man ! The pison is ating me
up just. Och !! it's enoug to make dog
throw his father in the firel Hooly St.
Patrick! Landlord! landlord Iand-lo-
Pat had, by ,hi. time, desseeainndea dsea d t; the
floor on which the landlords apartment
was situated, and the worthy host, hear
ing this hillabuloo, opened his door and
ask ked what was the nisstera
"Ah! is II there ye areiy Come out
for bating-7-or let me come till ye ! A
ID poorly house yere kapcn, to sind
yers man into an honest travellers room
to pison the innocent divil in his slape
Ugh! the bitter, nasty pison! come out
here, an I'll lather ye like blazes!"
What's the matter, my good friend 7"
inquired Bonifacc.
SOW the matter is it when was
walked from my swate slape and big
dirty blaggard stood fornint me, rammin
a big la-adle down my trote full ov pison,
an sez he, ye must take 1.-THE landlord
sez so; And now, what's the matter, sez
you! An that one Of yer tricks on trav.
ellers {! Come out here and I'll ba-ate ye
BE the blood Of the hooly marthers, I'll
bra,ake livery bone in yer body I'll tache
ye to pison dacent thraveller, that's goin
TO buy land in the wisthern counthryp
The lrishman here become entangled
il: the msshee of, a wooden settee which
stood in lis way, and, at the same time
the landlords wife seized her wrathy lord
although "ho,t" in himself, she was
not willing to risk him in trough and
tumble fight in the dark--and having
plucked him back into the sleeping apart.
ment, she locked the door and bolted II
securely.
The prospective parshaser Of " wistern
lands" having extricated his legs and arms
from those Of the settee, still thirsted for
the landlords blood,
Bring me till the murtherin ould Will
yum; let me come at him. !, H..
At this juncture, however, Mike, the
hostler, made his appearance with Ian
tern, which he held up to the physic
smeared face Of the enraged traveller with
polite request that he would should
his tongue. But Mike was at last com.
PEELED to give his fellow countryman a
good beating, which had the effect 10 rs
store him to good humor, and when he
found that he was net pisoned after all
ne retired once more to his bed 10 dream
j of the t.farrunnn ,rh;oh Ia ...a. ..n;..1. a.