The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-15
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Terrible yet. magni acent Ii that speetacl;
In which the sleeping lion III finally. reused
&c YVES nest elabo rateiy visible In the we@
|!ernscity Of Ind anapohs recently, and finely
Illustrated the gratifying idea that even tise
some 1.-THE softer influences oil. civil izati0H,
and dossnot always dire upon the atinhap.
|pywretch arousing him. There arrived HI
q popular hotelin the city above tsarneti, ~
about 10 o'clock In the morning, d gentle
man with q large cluster diamond
pin, and lady Of endless fashionable
back hair, who placed their sigma
lures upon the register as 80 Mr. Gaylord
and Lady, and ordered q reception parlor
and breakfast served 10 room. The clerk
ushered the way to the parior, and, return
ing, was meditating upon the ctancesos d
Dill for wine, when he suddenly found him.
self in the arms Of three truly rural gentle
tlemen, In ghostly linen usters,w who .inx.
lously inquired whether lady of end
less fashionable back hair was In the
hotel. The clerk .sternly answered that
she was, and that hes husband, Mr. Gay
lord, had ordered breakfast. sfRis wife!s
exclaimed the latest ruralist. +" She's
my wife, sir, and she's reused the sleeping
lion at last Gaylord must dieW The clerk
assured him that there could not possibly be
any mussing" Of the hotel carpets by
murder but; that he would 60 up stairs
himself and respectfully request. the impru.
dent gentleman and lady to come down and
be! Killed IN the yard. To this the sleeping
lion c0urteously assented :; and after brief
absence In m upper story, during which
Mr.. Gaylord called himself az. wretch "
and cra@led under.a sofa, the clerk re-
appeared with the lady inhis custody. At
sight of the wife who had so nearly eloped
from him that morning, the imprisoned
husband seized her by an arm, with an UNI
Ineligible roar, and pushed her before him,
from the hotel as though she had been some
new and despised kind of hand-cart. Salts.
tied that he and his friends would not shy
her upon the premises, at any rate, the clerk
retired to wait for Gaylord's coming down;
with his little bill for ordered breakfasts
While ne waited, an obese figure bounded
past him up the stairs, and immediately after
Gaylords bell rang frantically. In fact the
sleeping lion had returned to the hotelwith q
handy bar OF iron, and was paying his from
leal respects to his enemy's door, like Rieh-
ard at the gates of Ascalon. l1sRealiy," the
clerk told him, se.this noise is too much.
Come down, IL you must have satisfaction,
and take shot with brick at his windoW.s.
Shr1Yelled by this sarcasm, the sleeping lion
went down stairs and out from the hotel
again, as though he would fain collect his
thoughts in the open air. g Has he gone pr |
asked o quaking voice through crack of q
door. eyes, to get his pistols, ~ replied the
clerk, who is q man of some native humor.
and Mr.. Gaylord precipitately' reloeked his
door and diyed beneath the sofa, again. In
reality the clerk supposed TINT he was now
fairly rid of the married people, and was
mentally casting UP the cluster-diamond
party's bill once more, when q perspiring
bell-boy reported that gentleman was
very anxious to see him tnntheG reading
the sleeping lion and his still living
wife. ! haye finally concluded" said the
lion with much gravity, 'ipff to let
this woman 60 with the man she prefers to
me, and then kill myself in one of your
parlors." AS the clerk afterwards remark
ed in confidence to his friend, the barber,
this was really too much so he escorted his
country friends to the nearest door, and
assured them that ~ they could just
catch the next train, aNoso, Thought
he, they are off for good, and Gay
lord must be informed That the coast Is
quite clear and peculiarly favorable to his
paying off that little bill: "Nr.t Clerk said
voice in his ear, Give just come back
to ask if you couldn't lend me S1.50?" It
was the sleeping lion! But instead Of COM
plying with their friendly suggestion of pc
cuniary relations, the clerk once more ac-
companied the lion to the nearest door, al.
lowing him, however, on this last occasion,
the temporary accommodation of boot on
which to rest in mid air for moment.
From which it may be inferred, as before
declared, that even the king of beasts is
amenable in his rousingto some of the softer
influences of civilization, and does not ~
ways dine upon his arouser.-Exehange II,