The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-02-26

live minutes when loud, quick knocking
was heard at the door. The wife scream
ed, Non Dieul There is my husband
What will become of us?" The shoemakel
was frighrened out of his wits, his teeth
chartered, his knees knocked together, he
was utterly bewldered with right. "Comt
into this wardrobe, quick!" exclaimed the
wife He obeyed instantly. the wife
opened the door; the husband entered il
a towering fury and violently threw hi,
cap on the floor, exclaiming: "Accurset
trip! have not brought one cent bach
with me to pay the note of 200f. due to
morrow. | never in life was IN such aC
luck as am now. Give me something tc
eat! l am half dead with hunger anc
thirst" The wife replied, in her softest
s-nt est tone, Here is some COILS meat
n al and wine, dear" The husband seiz
| two knives on the table and sharpened
nm in such manner as must have
m ..le the poor shoenrker's blood run cold
as he crouched in the wardrobe naked
We. >hivrring with fear, and cold. nearer
lead than alive "Wife," continued th4
husband, II must sell the wardrobe to-mor-
~ Nv friend the shoemaker over the
way has long been wanting to buy it. !
will carry it to him to morrow morning y
As the husband spoke, he went up to the
wardrobe, and after rattliug the KEYS for
some time, in which were new terrors to the
poor amorous shoemaker, who, doubtless.
vowe if be ever got 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 wardrobe and carried it over to the
shoemaker's. The husband found the shoe
makers family in state of the greatest
CONSERVATION. The shoemaker could be
found nowhere the warmest apprehensions
were entertained OF his fate; bis family
were in tears. The husband was unat ie
to relieve their anxiety; he had neither
seen nor heard of his friend. The shoe
makers wife accepted 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 exam
Inc the condition of her purchase. The
instant the door opened naked man with
hair on end, covered with red, bounding
forth, knocked down the wife. Her screams.
the terror of the porters and the appren-
tlces, were dreadful. Meanwhile, the naked
red man, evidently beside himself ran wild
ly about the shop; his wife, porter. and ap-
prentices, few at him with whatever they
could lay hands on, and gave him such a
drubbing, until he recovered his senses
sufficiently to discover himself. The house
painter had prepared The bath with lag
quantity Of sae, and had thickIy ''dusted"
the inside cf the wardrobe with powdered
, chre, which had been transferred to the
poor shoemaker's body during his nights
while the glue, getting into
his hair and drying made his hair seem to
stand or end. When the shoemaker's wife
found out all these things she took broom
stick and belabored her husband thorough
ly. An immense crowd was assembled in
front OF their door, they lived ia the Rue
St. Antoine and the poor shoemaker has
become so ashamed, be has not since the
occurrence dared to show his face in the
street-PdriS Litter