The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23

lie Ia BOlS', the court halr-dreSSer. They
had lodged there for some weeks, and by
punctual payment and carelessness con-
corning the domestic accounts had won
the heart of their susceptible landlord.
He saw that she had an inward grief
passing that of the ordinary widow
and he ventured to inquire what it was
"Alas!" she said, 81 have dear and
only nephew whose condition gives me
| the greatest uneasiness. He has over
worked himself, and is threatened with
brain feverj the doctor says that if we
could only get him to have his head
shaved, all might be well, but he has q
splendid head of hair-indeed, great
deal too much of it. No argument of
mine will induce him to part with il"
This touched Mr.. Del la Bots profess
sional feelings. "Dear me, Madame,
how pity the young gentleman 1t is
a terrible thing to part with ones hair,
but still-we could shave him better
than at any other establishment in the
kingdom, and quicker"
ooh, | don't care about the quick
ness" answered Mrs Montfort hastily.
" the thing is to get it done thoroughly
/ would give fifty pounds if Alphonse
would only submit to it. Don't you
think, if he came with morning, you
could get it done whether he would or
not?"
"Well, really Madame, that would be
a strong measure; still, if it is for the
young mans good"
"They tell me, Mr. De la Bots, nothing
else will save his wits; he is half mad
| q Irao1r. Io Ill,
sions-that everything | have-my
jewels, for example-belongs to him
They ~iH belong to him some day, poor
fellow-that is, she added with sigh
I" if he lives to enjoy them"
"Poor dear young gentleman! And
you said fifty pounds, l think. Well, ]
think it can be managed for you. Il
you will name morning, l will have
} four of my strongest young men in
) readiness, and if you will bring hin
here, will promise you that he viii
have his head shaved"
every good; | will take him out
shopping with me; he is fond of shop
J ping; thinks he is a shopkeeper sometime
when his head is bad. He shall come
J here in my brougham. You will know
him in minute by his magnificent heac
of hair"
Gust so; and in five minutes nobody
shall know him, madame"
| "Don't be in hurry about it. Lee
it be done thoroughly" she answered
And so it was arranged.
Accordingly, when Mr.. John Riddle
arrived in the widows carriage at Mr.
De la Bois's, and had just placed the
parcel of diamond lockets upon her sit
ting room table, there was an incursior
of four strong young men, with comb
in their heads and aprons round thei
waists. Since these
"Four-and-twenty brisk young fellows,
All of them with umbrellas,
Fell upon poor Billy Taylor,
And persuaded him to be sailor,'
there has been no such outrage. They
carried him into back room, fastened
him into chair, and in spite of his bah
bling about how he was a jewelers. fore
man, and was being robbed land with
violence they shaved his head.
They not only effected this with grea
| completeness, but took their time abou
it, as his aunt had requested them to do
so that in the meantime she got clear ou
of the house, and nothing was ever hearC
of her afterward, nor of her niece, no,
of the diamond lockets. 1t was supposed
to be the completest "shave," in tn,
slang sense, that had ever been effected
Never since Samson's time had any on,
suffered so severely from being cropped
for Mr.. John Riddel not only lost hi
hair, but his situation. The Messrs
MoOnstone declined any longer to intrus
their business to a foreman who haC
fallen into such shallow trap, and los
them thereby thousand pounds worth
of jewelry. They declared that it wa
all through his insuferable conceit, ant
that if he had not taken such pains will
his hair, or worn so much of it, such
plan would never have entered the heat
of that modern Delilah, Mrs. Montfort
l-Belgrauia.