The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-07-31

we've had. A total stranger borTows five
dollars Of me until he can "see Stole" The
glasses are filed up again by order Of a
party at the other end of the room.
6 P. M.--Men with their coats off, vocif-
Grating violently. Everybody in intense
perspiratiOn; disposition TO spill beer on
our shirt bosoms and our clothes. Beer
mug knocked off the table. Bar keeper
gets excited and wastes his German on the
desert air, the air not understanding it.
imagine that be is asking us all to drink,
and accept the invitation. 1t is charged
TO me.
/ P.M.-More beer spilled on our shirt
bosoms. More fellows grow pale and 60
out in the back yard, and more suddenly
recollect that they have business to attend
to, going about their business as though it
was the "rail fence" business.
/ Lager beer won't intoxicated
Man asleep across the table. Another
man offers TO ''rasse" any one in the party
for the beer (haying arassled'' large
quantity of beer). A stranger takes it up,
! the 'rassie" proceeds, and-and l go un-
der. More beer.
/ 10 P. M.-More men sleep. | embrace
two or three Dutehmen at the next table
telling them, ''you're my friend" Look
around and discover, all of sudden, that
my party has changed. All gone "wot |
knowd," and a lot Of strangers there.
Think it is time to 90 home. Drink a
glass of beer and 60 it. .ar
/ 11P. Nam rudeIy awakened by some
one. Open my eyes, and see a couple Of
watchmen. l am on a door step on Vine
street. The watchman says;
"You don't want to sleep here
"The devil l don't. Do you suppose /
would be (hic) foolish enough to lay down
and 60 to sleep here if l didn't want tol'
'.But you can't sleep here"
"Ihat's a different thing altogether.
\ on said | didn't want to, and (hc) new
er wanted to so bad in my life before"
1l.30 P. MI reach home. Expert
fence good deal of difficulty in unlocking
the hall door with lead pencil. Try y
pocket knife, and then blunder upon the
night key. Suddenly remember that I
have got the l1iceups, and getting under
the hall gas light try to cure them BY
seeing how near can put my two little
fingers together without touching them.
/ Job them by each other, clear up to the
elbow. Then experience e 'ow of triumph
as hold them very near together, tw0
feet apart. 2.
l1.55 P. M-The hiecups cured. Cen
graduate myself on the cure as | go up
stairs. Think of taking out license to
practice in that line. l open the door
give a hlccup that starts the roof, and
nearly throws my head of. Wife starts
up in bed, and says:
"DrttRk again - s"
| protest that | am (hic) not. I wax
dignifed and learned, and ask her if she
(hic) understands the dag (hic) nosis Of
hiecups. She says she had ought to; she
had seen me have them often enough.
Said |, in an injured voice:
"Do you know, madam, that thic) hic-
cups come from (hic)-comes from cold
in tie stomach? ?'''
She said she thought it came from
beer garden across the canal.
Iinsisted that cold fit Of {hicl hiccups
often comes from severe stomach, and re-
member wandering of into dissertation
upon the intoxicating properties Of quaiIS,
while she was pulling of my boots
Lager beer won't intoxicate. Oh, mol
Attn KI-Do-RI."