Daily globe., 1879-03-16

Sothern. the actor, devoted part Of
each summers vacation to fishing and
hunting in Canada. F. G. de Fontaine,
in his biography of the actor, relates a
little incident which occurred at Quebec,
when Florence, Geo. Holland and Sothern
were rambling through the town waiting
tor the steamer. They had started down
the principal street Suddenly Florence
commenced to yell, Hi, hi. come here !"
You-man with the birds! Hi, hi, come
here"
sothern and Holland turned to see
what the bluster was all about, and OBJ
served Florence gesticulating to man
On the other side of the street, who was
carrying lot of birds on q string. Soth-
ern said:
"Florence, what the mischief is the
row.
Florence replied, 'Sh-h-h-h! Birds, my
boy, birds. Well buy them from this
sportsman and take them Gown with us
it will be a pleasant change of diet
broiled birds on toast, you know"
BY this time the sportsman" had
crossed the street and was standing be-
fore the trio. He was rather singular
sort of fellow, and withal q German
His face was about as expressive as a
bologna sausage, and though not deaf, it
seemed to take minutes for each inquiry
to reach his understanding. This at first
made Florence think ne couldn't hear
Billy opened the negotiation by asking
"Do you want to sell your birds?"
The Teutonlc sportsman, after long,
dull look, replied, 'sVot?"
II say" repeated Billy, much louder,
"do you want to sell your birds?"
The same long, dull look from the man,
and then he drawled out, "Vell, yes, I
dink sells dem."
"Well, how much for them?'
"Vot?" with same stolidity as before.
II say how much for them?' howled
Florence.
"You buy dem?'
:'Of course III buy them; how much
do YOU want for them2''
"You buy dem all7"
"1es, yes, I'll buy them all. Come
now, let's finish the bargain"
'Fot?" with the same stupid look.
80, Lord!'' said Billy, now getting red
In the face. ''Wnat stupid fellow Look
here! how much for the birds?"
The vender of game for the first time
seemed to understand, for he commenced
very slowly, and IN the most exasperat-
ing way, to deliberately count his misera-
bic bunch. Florence was getting impa-
tlent, and just going to bawl out again.
when the man locked up at him as be-
fore, and slowly remarked:
we'll, sells dem for two dollars''
Cali right" said Billy. "Now, where
did you shoot them?"
'Vot?'
''Vere shood 'em?''
"Yes: where?"
II shood dem out nit der woods.
Would you dink I shood birds in nv
front barlOr?'
This rather staggered Billy, and they
ali commenced to laugh at him, for he
was now the color of boiled lobster,
but yelling at the top of his voice, he re-
piled:
"Why, of course; I suppose you shot
thcm?'
"Vot?'
II say, hou did yo4 shoot Meme"
''Hoao shood 'em?"
Yes, Aoao? Did you shoot them on
the Wlngl"
'sVotW
'Did you shoot them on the w1NG?'
howling in bis ear.
81 shood em on der oing2"
eyes; on the aoinq-" Here Florence
went through a pantamime with his arms
to describe bird using its wings.
The sportsman gravely looked at Billy
for moment, and then said:
''Vell, ain'd barticular; some shoods
on der wing, some shoods on der head
and some l shoods on der tail. IDS all
der same so long vot 1 got EN-" And
then he looked at Billy as though he
were saying internally, 'Vot idea; shood
birds on der wing! Vot WOOL manw
Billy bought the birds and left instant
ly, observing that he felt sure guning as
high art did not flourish in Canada.