Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-21

YES" he said, "he didn't know
but what it was pretty short, but you
didn't need to cut it any shorter 10
trim it. 1t was in very bad, ragged
shape at the ends"
remained silent and obstinate, and
he asked me where had it trimmed
last. Itold him, and he burst into q
shout Of laughter that made the win
dows rattle.
What's the matter, Jim?n inquired
an assistant partner down the room,
holding his patient in the chair by the
nose.
Jim stifed his laughter and replied:
This gentleman had his hair trim
med down in Maine"
There was a general burst of merri-
ment all over the shop, and the appren-
tice laid down the brush he was wash
ing and came over to look at the Maine
cut, that he might never forget It L
surrende-ed. Trim it little, then, :"
l groaned, 'but in the name of hu-
manity, don't cut it any shorter"
NO" the barber said, '' he
wouldn't make If a hairs breadth
shori rr-"
Wl.5n left that shop, if it hadn't
bec. for my ears, my hat would have
fallL down clear on my shoulders
When l reached the hotel, everybody
stared, and a couple of men got up
and read a handbill on the wall, de
scriptive of a convict who had recently
escaped from Sing Sing. and looked
from the bill to myself very intently.
That night several of the audience
drew revolvers as came out on the
platform.
Then l went to Amsterdam, n. Y.
The barrier of that sleepy village, who,
in the interval of his other duties, acts
as Mayor of the town and edits the
local papers, undertook to shave me
with piece of hoop iron he pulled out
of his boot leg. When / resisted, he
went out into the kitchen and came
back with a kitchen knife and can
opener, and offered me my choice. Sc
! lecled the can-opener, and he began the
massacre, remarking incidentally that
he usedt0 keep good sharp spoke-shave
| for his particular customers, but he had
lost it. Then he said my heir needed
trimming, very badly. l protested
that il was impossible, it had been
trimmed three times within ten days
and was as short now as a business
man on the first of January.
"Oh," he said, 50 it wasn't too short,
and beside, there was no style about
it at all.7 He could give it some
shape, however, he said, without max
ing it any shorter.
So 1 surrendered and told him tC
shape it up. And if that foredoomedr
abandoned, barbarious son of ar
oakum-pieker didn't go out into the
| woodshed and come back with a rusty
old horse-rasp and begin to file away
what little hair had left. He allowed
few shreds and patches to remain
however, clinging here and there to my
scalp in ghostly loneliness. l rather
feared that my appearance that even
inc would create a panic, but it die
not. observed that the majority o
the audience had their heads tshapeC
up after the same manner, and wert
rather pleased with my conformity z
the local custom and style.
Well, got along to Cory, Pa, anC
rushed in for q shave and got it, in ont
time and two motions.
Hair trimmed, sirP' the barbe
said.
1 supposed he was speaking sareas
tically, and so 1 laughed, but yer.
feebly, for was getting to be littl
sensitive on the subject of my hair, or
rather. my late hair. But he repeatet
} L. ----~s+inr, and said that it needet
dlY. told him tina
I'D been trimmei
~ hair hsl
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