The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-19

CoMBING 1T RATHER STRONG.
In short, Ryder was Dangerous Female, and
would not like TO ride alone with her on one of
the English railways, where the carriages you
must know, arc small, and seldom filed. Not
content with pulling out her mistress hair, she
was always and forever putting fess in her mas
ter's ear
1t may not have been before remarked by our
reader, but Litiiths chief besetting sin-aside
from his unfortunate habit of getting drunk
was lunaoy. On the subject of priests he was
monOmaniacai, He had a way of strangling
them when they ventured upon his grounds
which was not only inConvenient to the priests
but distasteful as well to his wife, who had
remarkable respect and fondness for the cloth
sending them soups and gravies till one might
have thought it was table-cloth.
And Ry der was always eggng him on.
One day she nagged and egged him so much
that he determined to break the yolk. So he
collared poor devil of q priest, with whom his
wife happened to be discussing the vicarous
powers of the Pope, and shook and trampled
him till there was seemingly no life left in him.
Black and blue and livid, those who picked
the poor priest up thought he was suffering from
an attack of the Malignant Collarer.
So Lithth, thinking he had killed his man,
fled the county, taking with him all his wife's
jewels. In his desperation he never drew bridle-
rein till he reached an inn in the next county
a good twenty miles away, called the Pack
horse" (Why he did not go further know not,
but perchance be was fearful of faring worse ]
There he proceeded to unpack, and, having
nothing better to do fell to drinking on an
empty stomach, until he drank himself into a
braintever.
Liffith was always in luck, and at this inn he
found another woman with grand and beautiful
orbs. But this was q dove-eyed angel. When
Mercy Vintner looked at things she saw them
which was mare than could be said of Mrs.
Lank.
Had not Lifith possessed the constitution Of
horse, he would have succumbed to the fever.
And perhaps IL was because of his possessing
the constitution of horse that farrier sue
ceeded in curing him after regular physician
had given him up. SiDliid SinlUlbuS cttrGntur.
ANY way, what with Mercy's nursing, and the
glauber and aloes which the farrier prescribed
for him. Lifith got sufficiently we'll to decline
wearing the shroud which kind old lady was
| embroidering for him, and call for shirt.
The next thing he called for was parson, and
! he and Mercy were made one, much to the de-
! light OF the parents, who thought that such
! son-in-law behind the bar would bring custom
! to the "Packhorse." Had they known his
! habits, they would have trembled on trusting
him with the keys. For than Litfith there were
| Iew squarer drinkers in the country.
The farrier, who had been engaged to Mercy
came in just as the ceremony was over. For
moment he stared wofully at the picture, and
then said very drily:-'I am too late for the
wedding and too early for the funeral, me-
THAT you be, Paul, said Mrs. Vintner cheer
fully, "she is meet for your mastern
"If be be taken sick again, the Devil may
dose him." growled Paul. and leaving the room
in disgust he withdrew his custom from the
'Packhorse" forever. On being asked the
reason, he replied that he did not like the new
Bar Keeper.