The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-11-16
The Fat Man.
WATEREE.

1t isn't every day we encounter a sketch
so amusing as the one subjoined, and where
all parties seem to enjoy the joke with so
good relish Let the reader peruse for HIM
self:
Bridget" said lady in the city of Goth
am one morning, as she was accommodating
in the kitchen, "what a quantity Of soap
grease you have got here-wc can get soap
for it, and we must exchange it for somc.
Watch for the tat man. and when he comes
along tell him want to speak to him.
Yes, num-" said Bridget.
All the morning: Bridget, between each
whisk of her dish-cloth kept bright look
out of the kitchen window, and no moving
creature escaped her watchful gaze At last
her industry seealcd about to be rewarded,
for down the street came a large portly gen
tleman nourishing canc.and looking in a
very good humor. Sure, and there's the fat
man now, thought Bridget; and when he
was in front of the house out she flew and in
formed him that her mistress wished to
speak to him.
Speak to me, my good girl 2" replied the
gentleman.
"Yes, sir, she wants to spake to you, and
says would you be good enough to walk in,
sir"
This rc4cest, so direct, was not to be re-
fused, so in state Of wonderment, up the
steps went the gentleman, and up the stairs
and up the stairs went Bridget, and knock
ing at the door Of her mistress, put her
head in and exclaimed, "Fat gentleman in
the parlor, mnn."
/ So saying she instantly withdrew to tbs
lower regions.
I'm the parlor" thought the lady, what
can it mean? Bridgct must have bluuder-
cd, but down to the parlOr she went, and up
rose her fat friend, with his blandest smile
and most graceful bow.
"Your servant informed me, madame that
you would like to speak to me-at your SER
vice; madam"
The mortified mistress cav the state oftho
case Immediately, and smile wreathea itself
about her lips in spite of herself, as she said :
"Will you pardon the terrible blunder of
a raw Irish girl, my dear sir? I told her to
call in the fat man to take away the soap
grease, when she saw him, am she has made
mistake as you now see.
The jolly fat gentleman leaned back in his
chair and laughed such a hearty ha ha! Ia
as never came from one Of your lean gen.
try.
"It is decidedly the best joke Of the seas
on. Ha! ha! ha 50 she took me for the
soap grease man, did she? 1t will keep ME
laughing for month. Such joke"
And all the streets and around the corner
was heard the merry HI . ha! ha! ofthe old
gentleman, as he brought down his caae, ev-
cry now and then, and exclaimed, ''Such
joke"
EMINENT COUNSEL FOR TIE kU KLUX.-
The New York Herald Of the 11th says:
The Baltimore american is advised that
Reverdy johnson is to 20 to Columbia, S. C.,
to defend the Ku Klux prisoners to be tried
there at the November term Of the United
States Circuit Court. Mr.. johnson is a
gentleman of eminent legal abilities, and
possesses profound knowledge ofconstltutlon-
al law. In the conduct of these Ku Klux
cases no better man could have been selected:
This is different matter from dining and
hob-nobbing with the nabobs of Great
Britain, and will afford Mr.. johnson ample
opportunity to develop his talents as an
advocate and as an expounder ofthe constitu-
ton. :"
MARRIED.