Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-07
An Amorous Shoemaker.

orleans Ftcdyuhe reiates the ioiiowing
funny story:
We are laughing over an adventure
into which an amorous shoemaker fell.
He was not content with the one wife he
had taken, but must needs go poaching
on his neighbor's bed His neighbor's
wife, annoyed by his declaration, told
her husband The latter replied: We
will punish him." They put their heads
together to devise some suitable pmish
ment The evening after this family
consultation, the amorous shoemaker
(who lived Immediately opposite the
house-painter, whose wife he so loved),
seeing the husband absent, called on the
wife He was in higher spirits than ever;
he bought an enormous nosegay, made
entirely of roses, and was as full of COM
pliments as he could be. The wife said
to him, in reply TO question: My
husband has gone to St German to re-
cover debt of some 200f" The shoe
maker was delighted at the prospect of
spending the whole evening with her.
Two hours flew away in most delightful
conversation. He pressed her to yield
she refused At last she said my
greatest objection to you is the horrible
odor Of leather which all shoemakers
have Take bath in my husbands
bathing tub, and perhaps, after you smell
like other people, will not be as obsti
nate as you Lsay.I am The shoemaker
hesitated He dreaded foul play, but
faint heart ne er won fair lady he
undressed and was soon in the bath. He
had not been in it more than FIVE min
utes when loud, quick knocking was
heard at the door The wife screamed,
Mon Dieu There is my husband |
What will become of usY The shoe
maker was frightened out of his wits, his
teeth chartered, his knees knocked to-
gether, he was utterly bewildered with
fright. Come into this wardrobe,
quick 7 exclaimed the wife. He obeyed
Instantly The wife opened the door;
the husband entered in a towering fury
and violently threw his cap on the floor
exclaiming Accused trip | have
not brought one cent back with me to
pay the 200f, due tomorrow. never
in my life was in such bad luck as
am now Give me something to eat
am half dead with hunger and thirst.
The wife replied, in her softest, gentlest
tones, Here is some cold meat, bread
and wine, dear. The husband seized
two knives on the table and sharpened
them against each other in a manner
that must have made the poor shoema-
ker's blood run cold as he crouched in
the wardrobe, naked, wet, shivering with
fear and cold, nearer dead than alive.
WIFE" continued the husband, i
must sell the wardrobe tomorrow. My
friend the shoemaker over the way has
long been wanting to buy it. ! will
carry it TO him tomorrow morning. As
the husband spoke, he went up to the
wardrobe, and, after rafting the keys for
some time in the lock, as if he could not
turn it-all which we're new terrors TO
the poor amorous shoemaker, who, doubt
less, vowed if ever he got safely out of
this scrape, he would let other mems
wives alone. After supper husband and
wife went to bed The next morning at
nine o'clock the husband went out to
get four porters They took the ward
robe and carried it over to the shoema-
ker's. The husband found the shoema-
ker's family in a state of the greatest
CONSERVATION The shoemaker could be
found nowhere; the warmest appre-
tensions were entertained of his fate;
his whole family were in tears. The
husband was unable TO relieve their anx-
iety he had neither seen nor heard of
his friend The shoemaker's wife ac-
cepted the wardrobe (which she knew her
husband had long desired to purchase),
and when the house-painter gave her the
key she opened the door to examine the
conditions of her purchase. The instant
the door opened, a naked man with hair
on end, covered with red, bounded forth,
knocking down the wife. Her screams,
the terror of the porters and the appren-
tices, were dreadful Meanwhile, the
naked red man, evidently beside himself,
ran wildly about the shop, his wife, por-
ters and apprentices flew at him with
whatever they could lay their hands on,
and gave him a sound drubbing, until he
recovered his senses sufficiently to dis
cover himself The house-painter had
prepared the bath with large quantity
of Glue. and had thickly busted the
inside of the wardrobe with powdered
ochre, which had been transferred to the
moor shoemaker body during his night
restlessness; while the glue, getting into
his hair and drying, made his hair seem
to stand on end. When the shoemaker 5
wife found out all these things, she took
a broomstick and belabored her husband
thoroughly. An immense crowd was
assembled in front of their door they
live in the Rue St Antoine), and the
door shoemaker has become 30 ashamed
he has not since this occurrence dared to
show his face in the street GAMMA.