The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-06-11
Trout and Pugnaoity.
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day last he was brought before a police mag
istrAte Tor the first time in his life, ahd under
such circumstances that there viii be no
harm done In naraling lhem,
Mr., Blank il d remarkably clever rnrn, and
sets high value upon a joke, provided il
isn'rBetup vtoo Steep A short time ago
Mr.. Blank received present from a custom
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Of twelve Of the finest trout ever taken In
that celebrated trout stream, Young Woman's
Creek, II there il any thing for which Mr
Blank has weakness, Il is foT breakfast
of trout, hanked by nieAint and cup Of Old
Dominion coffee, aud the reader may, there
fore, imagine how welcome was the present
In question. Upon The delivery Of the tFea.
sure In covered basket. he placed Il In q
cool place until evening On his way home
he dropped IN At certain restaurant 10 See
a friend, and " hile there a certain hardware
clerk came Ia and entered into conversation
with Mr.. Blank,
What have you in your basket my dear
sir'
present from Clinton County, dozen
Of the biggest trout ever seen out n water
"Who is the donor?"
- customer Of ours at Lock Ilayep, BJ
the way, have you ever been in Clinton cOun'
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"NeyGE"
"Well then, you have a sensation IN store,
Til YOU visit that region you can have no
--lra,-i'-irr- t+'t-l''''tI4'ts tssre-''.-
Last winter a friend of mine shot eight deer
in an hour. What do you think Of that p
THAT story ia good one, hut something
like the gcntlemans neck who was Hung in
Chicago last week"
"What do you mean by thAt?"
THAT il ia slightly stretehed, that's Oh ?"
Mr.. Blank being slightly miHed at this re,
ply, proposed to leave, while the hardware
clerk insisted that they should frat step into
a side-room and partake Of Pinet champaign,
and fried oysters. Mr. Blank nssented and
took his seat, while the hardware clerk went
to order up a supper. While Mr. Blank wal
reading over the North American, the hard
ware clerk made an excuse TO 60 down intc
the bar-room. While there he nbstrnctet
the trout from Mr.. Blanks basket and ~
placed them with string Of suckers. llay'
\ ing done this he returned to his friend Blank
and pnrtook Of the supper the last course Of
which consisted Of dish Of trout, which Mr.
/ Blank admitted 20 be YEARLY as large as thos,
sent him from Clinton County. Amer sup
per Mr. Blanks friend settled the bill, nnC
-IhePaFt sepmucd-Mr. Bi5uk 10 CONVEY
his present to his wife, and the hardwar,
clerk 20 spend the evening with a lady il
Ninth street The moment Blank rcache,
home he opened n conversation with Mrs
Blank.
"Got a present for you my dear, from Mr.
Wright Of Clinton County-the finest mes
Of trout ever taken out Of the water"
"IIow nice Ars.lbry in this basket, Blank!
dcnr?"
Mr.. Hank sHid '-5rpEa szsA 4.sa.4lAA ever HI
the basket, while Mrs. Blank lifted the cove
| to examine the fish while Blank removed hi
4 boots.
Mrs. Blank examined the trout, and locke,
dubious,
"Are these trout, my dear ?"
"Ccrtainy, and the finest you ever saw"
care you sure Of that, Blanky?"
"Surc Of itP or cootse am. II is $,
long since you ate game fish tina, you've for
cotton the earmarks."
81 think you're mistaken Tor once, dVur
lie I'm any judge Of piscatorial arrangements
this lot of trout consists of suckers"
Mr. Blank laid down "thc baby" and ex
amined the fish. lie admitted that the ttou
had become suckers. He saw the matter a
once, and admitted that he had been Sucke
himself, or lie would not allowed a"fool" hk
hardware clerk to have hocussed him in sucl
a manner. Mr.. Blank then determined 4
have revenge. With this intent he put ol
his boots and rushed out Of the house. IL
went up Ninth street, in violent passion, Il
pursuit Of the young man he advised to visi
Clinton County and kill eight deer in on
hour. As luck would have it he met tn
Young man just as he stepped out of the houp
he had been visiting. He came up behint
young man and lifted him about six inche
off the ground, with the toe ofAis right boot
Young man was so taken by surprise an,
pain that he shouted "murder"--a process
which resulted in Mr. Blanks capture by a
officer in less than a minute afterward. Tn
Recorders Office being still open, Mr.. Blanl
was taken before him. Hardware clerk mad
his statement and Mr.. Blank made his, whe
the Recorder voted that Mr.. Blank had serV
ed hardware clerk precisely right. Hard
agreed to consider the assault in Pickwick
ian sense, while Mr.. Blank magnanimous AG
serted that the "trout sell" should be cor
sidered as n joke. The matter thus ended
and so ended Mr.. Blanks first arraignmer
as violator Of the constitution PhilO
e4elphia North American.
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