Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-06-20
a Question Of Law

I called IN at Mr.. Lambs to obtain hi
name for petition to the City Council
for gas lamp upon our corner. He wa
sitting in lower room. with a baby upo.
his knee, and Nrs.~L4mh. .xas close by
operating sewing machine. They wer
evidently greatly excited about some
thing, and before I had chance to stat,
nv Grand Mrs. Lamb said:
500 you know anything about law
"A very: Gtt'e,'' I said. ''Why:"
I'll tell you" began Mr.. Lamb.
Never mind, Achilles, INTERRUPTED
Mrs. Lamb, sharply. II will present thu
facts. Well, you know Mr. Dobbins, III
the street here:"
Mr.. Parker Dobbins, said Mr.. Lamb
"Ihe first name is not important" said
Mrs. Lamb. There are no other Dob
bins about here. Well, Mr.. Dobbins has
a 1ondne5s Of bailooning, and he under
took to take a balloon voyage, in a bal
loon OF ais own yesterday.'':
In the morning., said Mr. Lamb.
"Achllles. said Mrs. Lamb, rebuking
the interruption. "The balloon arose
swiftly from his garden, and it sailed
over the tops OF the houses until it came
Immediately above our roof. Here. i
began to descend, ar d Mr.. Dobbins threw
| out sand=bag which he carried for bal
last
'Went right down our ci1imney,n SAID
mr. Lamb, ;;olting the baby upon his
knee:
Don't anticipate me, please" ex-
claimed Mrs. Lamb, in a severe tone
"The bag fell int o the fue of our chimney.
and the house was filed with smoke. Mr.,
Lamb With his usual want of sense-''
Want Of sense, darling? How can
you-' :. -
"les your want Of sense. mean what
say. Mr.. Lamb dashed thirteen buckets
| OF water over the kitchen floor, and then
he rushed upstairs and threw two chairs
and a washstand out of the Window
AS gentle as could, nv love-
No matter, you threw them. Just
then Mrs. Smith, our next door neiehbor,
called and said she had seen the sand-bag
enter cur fue, and so We discovered what
the matter Was. determined to try and
remove the obstruction
u determined, too said Lamb.
DO &c still, Achilles Mr.. Dobbins.
however, while passing over Magruder's
ward. 1t seems, became frightened. and
threw out his grabbing iron, think thew
cali it"
"GrspPling-iron, dearest, ;nterjected
MIR. Lamb.
We'll, it's of no consequence. And. at
any rate, Nagruder's servant girl, Maria
was in the yard fixing the clothes-l lines"
..t>0a01nfr ia
Mr.. Lamb
Achilles. Mind the baby and hush!
And the grappling-iron caught, in her
skirts and lifted her clear off the ground.
Just then Mr.. Dobhine, it seems, threw
out more ballast, and the next moment
Magruders Maria was carried, screaming
several hundred feet in the air"
About as high as the weathercock on
the Baptist stceple,' explained Mr..
Lamb
Never mind him" said Mrs. Lamb
contemptuously. "However. Mr.. Dob
BINS, hearing hez-cries,-let- some gas OUT
OF the balloon, and just as it came over
our root, ne cut the rope of the graphing
iron and dropped Magruder's Maria right
fiSe." A@
I'VE hadn't any idea she was there,
Pray don't be SO absurd replied Mrs,
Lamb. "Of course we were not aware
that she was sitting upon our chimney,
tor we We're in the kitchen. Achilles
here. with his customary recklessness, in
s!sted upon blowing the sand-bag out OF
the tue with haIf-keg of powder.
Well, darling, you know you tried to
push it out with a brush handle. and
couldn't"
$50 he placed the powder in the fire.
place and exploded it. The stove and
the brick-work, of course, were torn to
atoms. The tea-kettle >was hurled
through the window, and two dish pans.
a tea cup, and potato masher hit the
door with frightful force
"You forget that our hired girl was
knocked down with the eoal-scuttle,,'
said Mr. Lamb.
PITY it didn't knock aou down, Well.
before we had recovered from the shock
Mrs. Smith rushed in, breathless, and
said she had seen Magrudc's Maria,
while sitting on our chimney. suddenly
rise, turn nine complete somersets.
and--''
Il think it I remember rightly she
said eight someisets, Lucille dear"
30, hush! Turn nine somersets and
then fly off at a tangent and fall. Mrs.
Smith said that Magrude's Maria, while
turning around, seemed to be hueging
something that looked like a pillow"
"A show-pillow, WASH t it, she saitl"
asked Mr.. Lamb.
cure a goose, Achilles. so we all
rushed out after Mrs. Smith, and a mo-
ment later we found Marsruder's Maria
curled up on the straw in Blacks barn:
yard, with the sand-bag in her arms. It
had shot out of the fue, carried her with
IT, here they both We're. Magruder's
Maria was not hurt, only breathless,
for she had fallen on the straw. We gave
here something to bring her to-
"A snifter OF brandy;s said Lamb. ..
"Snifter! How low and Vulgar! And
when she revived we garfield her home.
and this morning she sued us. for assault
and battery with intent to XIII Do YOU
think we shall have to suffer-" 81
- "1-welt- really, I don't know. It.
seems to me that Dobbins is the actna,
culprlt and that he ought to he pun
ished."
, That's 1T what I said" remarked Mr..
Lamb, tilnidTy =:
Mrs. Lamb went to him, seized his
ear and marched him out Of the room
l improved the opportunity to withdraw,
and We got 1.-The gas-!amp without Lambs
signature. 9Ths case of .Magruders
Maria against Mr., and Mrs. Achilles
Lamb comes up in September, and Maria
announces her intention to carry it to
the Supreme Court if she can't get Justice