The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-05-21
DOSING A TRAVELLER.
a HOTEL SCENE.
BY II. KoSHO0T,

bl lie hOSIOOi,
! 1t was at one ofthe extensive hosteries which
are TO be cited pto" in most of the large towns
/ in the interior OF New York, that the follow
! ing scene actually occurred, as can be- proved
/ by cload OF witnesses who have heard the
landlord tell Tie 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 10 receive
medicine during the night from ;he hands of a
person who had been procured TO 'swatch" with
him. The landlord had entrusted the afore-
SAID watcher TO administer a portion Of some
little Physic 10 the patient at - O'Clock the
dose 10 be repeated at certain nours OF the night
she Is rather trchy," said the landlord oand
YOU had better keep out Of his room until YOU
go up 10 give him the meticine'
sob, for that matter" replied the watcher,
who was novice in the vocation, 81 prefer
to SIT here = and he eyed a sofa which was in
the apartment, in a suspicious manner.
''"ril' SAID the landlord, ''yoa won't forget
the number OF his room %
"No sir" .,...,.
without making such conlounded fuss as he
made with the last dose. Tell him that said
he must take tits good for him.
eyes sir"
''Good night"
GOOD night
BoBiiace retired and the watcher deposited
himsgifon the sofa from which he was reused
by his own snoring at quarter before one.
In dismay and confusion he seized the potion
and hurried up stairs.
The sick man was lodged in No. 80, but
the nurse IN his haste miStook No. 50 ioril,
and entering the latter, he saw person living
in the bed, face upward, with his mouth wide
open, resplring with that peculiar gurgle in the
throat which indicates strong lungs and plethU-
rc habit.
'Ah!" mentally exclaimed the astute watch
er, she makes fuss about his medicine, does
be I'm blowed though If he don't take one
dose qulctly-6eiote he wakens up in fact ~
The idea oigiving potion of bitter physic
to a sonnoIent patient was sufficiently ridicu-
| louS but when we consider that the watcher
had entered the wrong room and was about TO
administer It 10 the wrong man, the affair be-
! comes still more Iudicrous.
! Our friend, the watcher, acted promptly,
| and having filed the bowl OF a large spoon
! with the meGicne, he forced it down the
! throat OF the sleeping traveller, who hap1rned
/ 10 be a healthy Il5rrniau that had never tasted
| PhysJc before in his life The lrlshnan strug-
! glrd and bit the spoon severely, but he watcher
| plunged it still deeper in his throat saying as
he did so
'Oh, but you must take 1.-THE landlord SAYS
you must -
The nasty dose went down, but when Patrick
| recovered his breath and began 10 pour forth his
| ohurgatIoEs in his-oWn ocular rhetoric the
watcher discovered that he had committed an
egrrgious blunder, and seizing his light fed
from the room.
The astonIshed aud enraged traveller sprang
from hls bed, and was soon heard rushing about
in search OF the landlord swearing vengeance
against hun and all connected with his house.
On he came, tearing through the passages, bang
ing the doors, and roaring like a grizzly bull
"Oo-oo-oh it's kilt am, be dad, any how.
Au-uh I'm chaWked with p:son.-Divil bit
NV faruRl in the wisthern country will
buy now-for Pm dead man. The pison is
eating me up jist Och it's enough to make a
dog throw bis father in the fire Hooy Saint
Patrick Landlord landlord and-lo-o-o-o-r-l
I'd"
Pat had by this time descended TO the floor
on which the landlords apartment was situated
and the worthy host, hearing the hillabulloo
opened bis door aud asked what was the matter1
"Ah is ii there ye are Come out for q
batting or let.me come tell ye! A Id poorly
house yer kapen, 10 sind yer man into an hones
travellers room TO pison the innocent divi il
his sIape Ugh! the bitter nasty Pison :
come out here, and Til lather ye like bazes y
whats the matter, my good friend =
inquired Bonltace.
SOW the matter is !-whin l was wakec
from my swate slaPe and a. big dirty bragga!c
stood fornint me rammln' big ia-die down mi
troe full ov pison-an' seq he you must take II
the landlord sez 50! An, now what's tn
matter, seq you An that's one ov yer thrick
on travellers
"Come out here an I'll bate ye. Be th
: blood ofthe hooly mariners, I'll brake Iver.
bone in yer ugly body Pll tache ye to piso