Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-06-30
DOSING ATRAyELER.


It was in one of the extensive hostelries |
shich are to be sstied up to'' in most of the |
arge towns in the interior of New York, that |
The following scene actually occurred, as can
be proved by 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 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 watch with
him. The landlord had entrusted the afore-
said watcher to administer portion Of some
little physic to the patient at II O'Clock the
dose to be repeated at certain hours of the
night.
ssHe is rather techy,'' said the landlord, sand
you had better keep out of his room until you
60 up to give him the medicine"
ooh, for that matter" +" replied the watcher,
who was novice in the vocation, 81 prefer to
sit here - and he eyed sofa which was in.
the apartment, in suspicious manner.
"Well, said the landlord, you won't forget
the number of his ROOM"
s"No,Sir.''
ssAnd tell him he must take his medicine
without making such a confounded fuss as he
made with the last dose. Tell him that l said
he must take tits good for him."
ssYes, SIR
issGood night
Boniface retired and the watcher deposited
himself on the sofa from which he was reused
by his own snoring at q quarter before one.
In dismay and confusion he seized the potion
and hurried up stairs.
The sick man was lodged in No. 90, but the
nurse in his haste mistook No. SO for it, and
entering 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 indicates strong lungs and pie
thoric habit.
ssAh 20 mentally exclaimed the astute
watcher, she makes a fuss about his medicine,
does he ? I'm blowed though if he don't
take one dose quietly-before he wakens up
in fact
The idea of giving portion of bitter physic
to a somnolent patient was sufficiently ridicu-
lous; but when we consider that the watcher
had entered the wrong room and was about to
administer it to the wrong man, the affair be-
comes still more ludicrous.
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 the healthy Hiberian that
had never tasted pbysc before in his life. The
Irishman struggled and bit the spoon severely,
but the watcher plunged it still deeper in his
throat, saying as he did so
sOh, but you must take 1.-THE landlord
says you must
The nasty dose went down, but when Patrick
recovered his breath and began to pour forth
his objurations his own peculiar rhetoric,
the watcher discovered that he had committed
an eggregious bIunder, and seizing his light,
fled from the room.
The astonished and Fenraged traveller sprang
from his bed, and was soon heard rushing a
bout in search of the landlord, swearing ven
geance against him and all connected with his
house. On he came tearing through the pas
sages, banging the doors, and roaring like a
grizzly bull
.sOo-oo-ohl it's kilt am, bedad, any how
Ah-uh ! I'm choaked with pisen. Diyil a
bit of farum in the wisthern country will
buy now-for Pm dead man. The pisen is
ating me up just! Och! it's enough to make
dog throw his father in the fire. Hooly
Saint Patrick Landlord landlord land To-
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Pat had by this time descended to the floor
on which the landlords apartment was situa-
ted, and the worthy host, hearing the hillabul
loo, opened the door and asked what was the
matter.
..Ah! is it there ye arer Come out for
batting or let me come till ye! A id poor
ty house yer kaping, to send yer man into an
honest thraveler's room, to pizen the innocent
divil in his slape. Ugh the bitter nasty pi-
zen come out here, and I'll lather ye like
blazes.'
quired Boniface.
SOW! the matter, is it when l was walked
from my swate slape and big dirty blaggard
stood fornint me rammin big ladle down me
trote full OF piZen-and seZ he, you must take
it, the landlord sez SO; and now what's the
matter, sez you. And that's one ov yer tricks
on travellers
ssCome out here and Eli bate We! Be the
blood of the hooly marthers, I'll break livery
bone in yer ugly body! I'll tache We to pizen
a dacent traveller, that's going to buy land in
the wisthern country.
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 him In
rough and tumble fight in the dark-and-hav-
ing plucked him back into her sleeping apart
ment, she locked The door and bolted it secure
ly. The prospective purchaser of sswiSthern
lands'' having extracted his legs, and arms
from those OF the settee, stilf' thirsted for the
landlords blood.
9Bring me till the murtherin' auld yilyan,
let me come to him 20 = = . - - = =
At this junctuTe, however, Mick, the ostler,
made his appearance with a lantern, which he
held up to the physic smeared face of the en-
ragged traveller with the polite request that he
would hold his tongue. But Mick was triast
compelled to give his countryman good beat
ing, which had the effect to restore him to
good humor; and when he found he was not
sspisened'' after all, he retired once more to
his bed to dream of his ssfarum' which he
was going TO buy in the s.wisthern country.''
al hab always in my life,'' says Cesar Han
nibal, ssfound the gals to be fust in lub, fust