Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-07-10

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He told the story Of the belt to the
friends of the deceased when they came
down from New York a day or two later,
and for years afterward, until the mort.
gage was paid off, check for the amo nj
of the interest regularly came by mail to
Mrs Hendrickson just before quarter
day. -
SUFFERING.
Not Medical Treatise, but Little Story
The Affections Of Young Man with an I'm.
T. pediment in His Speech.
IBsooklyn Eagle.]
ssIt don't bother me-" he said, "except
when get excited, or have been taking
q little to much to drink. l could sit
down and talk to you an hour without
suffering, but it got me into all awful
scrape while ago. You see, was going
home on last Thursday NIGHT"
.sor Friday 1.orning?"I suggested.
MOI vas early enough that time
Not later than II O'Clock. Just after !
turned into Spring street met party Of
three men, WHO had been drinking pretty
hard. They seemed to be strangers in
the CITY. and there was no dou bit that they
had lost their way.
''They stopped as came up, and one
Of them a big, broad shouldered man,
faced me and addressed me in this style
evil you.p-p please to t-t-ten me the
way to C-c-c-canal street3"
! "When perceived that he suffered l
was afraid that there was going to be
trouble; but what could doc He would
have been sure to go for me If had tried
to pass on without answering, and 1 was
ashamed to turn tail and run away. |
felt that was getting excited, and was
sure that fit Of stammering would fol-
low; but tried to keep cool, and blurted
it out in this shape:
"'There is B-b-broadway, and canal
street is f-f-four blocks farther down
II know that my face turned red, but
don't believe it was near as red as his.
He was as Wild as tornado.
"Y-y-young man. said he, you are
t-t-trying to m-m-m-mock me-"
"N-n-no I amt said I, more excited
than ever. P-p-p-pon my word, l amt
"You liev he shouted, as he was too
mad to stutter any more, and mean to
teach you better manners
with that, before I could either run
or dodge,
HE HAULED OFF
with that big fist of his and let me have a
thumper right between the eyes, just
where the black was bound to spread tine
ly on both sides Of my face. l thought
that lightning had struck me, and felt as
had struck me, and felt as if my head
was caved in, or my nose broken, at least.
He dropped me another on the left cheek
while l was gazing at street full OF stars,
and then one of the fellows with him took
hand in the game, or foot, and lent
me kick that landed me on the other
side of the gutter.
CATER that 1 don.t know what happen
cd, until one Of my friends found me
somewhere up town, wandering about
like blind man. He asked me what
was the matter, and begged him to take
me to doctor. lie got some raw oysters.
which I put to my eyes, and then took
me to doctor, but I couldn't get any
leeches, and 1t may be week or SO yet
before nv face RECEIVERS it's natural color"
sympathized again with the young
gentleman, but asked him whether he
had not sense enough to refrain from try
mig to talk to suffering men.
II ought to have" he replied, ''as l
never fail to get into scrape when do
it; but can't seem tohelp it,
I asked HIM whether there many slut
tcring people in New York, remarking
that l seldom met any person who was
afflicted in that way.
"[ shouldn't say there were," answered
Billy, Thy the way meet them. But sup
pose 1t will be just my COMPOUNDED luck
to run across every stammerer on this
side Of the Atlantic, sooner or later"
care they very sensitivc:'
"Sensit1ve is no name for it. They
flare up in a minute, and are ready to
60 RAvING MAD
if they suspect anybody of hooking them.
It is because l know how touchy they
are that I try to steer clear OF them,
but it is not always that / have sense
enough to succeed Sometimes the devil
gets hold of me and drives me into slut
tering match when I know that 1 ought
to keep out of it. Not long ago was IN
q bar-room up town, where there happen
ed to be nobody knew. had been
drinking rather more than was good fol
me, suppose, and felt rather lonesome
and liberal.
''DOwn the counter was another young
chap who was pretty full, and was trying
to stand off the bar-keeper for one more
drink. 1 noticed that he suffered pretty
badly, and wanted to fraternize with him
So thought that I would invite him to
join me, though I haden't the least idea
that I would stutter over it. But this as
the way it came out
'Y-y-young f-f-feller,' said I, won't
you t-t-take something with me?'
'sOf course, he made sure that 1 was
hooking him, and he turned and
WENT FOR ME
like royal Bengal tiger. l am happy
to say that ran little faster than he
did, and l didn't stop, after l reached
the sidewalk, until I had put several
blocks between me and the bar-room."
'sThat was your fault" I ventured to
suggest.
eyes, that was my fault said Billy
"but it happens sometimes when no NOR
tai being could possibly prevent it. One
of my saddest adventures in that line &C.
Cured to me last winter. was at a ball
one night, real nice ball, and was en-
joying myself remarkably we'll. There
was very petty young lady at the ball,
of good family, a fine dancer and quite
the rage, to HON was anxious to be in
troduced. secured an introduction with
out much trouble, and asked her for the
pleasure of dance with her, In my sweet
est manner and without the slightest
shade of stutter. She graciously assented,
and handed me her tablets, on which
there was plenty of room, as the dancing
had just begun.
%'Please to p-p-put your name down,
said she, f-f-for whatever dance you PIP
p-prefer." Il;
''What pity it was that she STAN,
mered so! What pity, too, that I didn't
have sense enough to put my name down
where I wanted it without saying word
But was sure that would speak with
out suffering, and this is what said:
"sI will t-take the IF first waltz, if you