The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-06
A HAPPY SEND-OFF.
How Friends Will Gather Around Sick
Mans Bed.
[Ban Francisco Post.l

Young Guffey was quite LII the other day,
and as the doctor had prescribed perfect rest
and careful nursing, his particular friend,
Jack Rodgers sald That he Wonia LIP pr w
invalid and "braee him up" as Jack kindly
expressed II. So that night Huffey was awak
ened from feverish sleep by tremendous
CHATTER on the staircase, and Rodgers appeared
ing demijohn, various musical instruments
and other appliances OF modern inquislttons.
These kind hearted fellows had all been Inn
pressed with the fact that nothing does sick
persons 80 much good as to approach them
with smiling faces and cheerful words. 80
they nearly shook Guffey's arm out OF joint
me had inhammatory rheumatism, and after
assuring him, at the top Of their lungs, that
he never looked better In his life. and they'd
have him right side up With care IN Day Or
and settled down to their benevolent task
Fire. Tom Piiff told an overwhelmingly funny
story Of how he threw darkey waiter out OF
the third-story window OF the ST. Charles
Hotel, In New Orleans, with On admirable in
itation Of the way the waiter yelled as ne
struck the pavement. n This anecdote caused
the company to laugh Itself almost black In
the face Then Mr.. Badgers performed q
little thing Of his own In = flat on the cornet,
which caused the landlady to make some
caustie remarks out In the hall, and Induced
an unappreciative old party overhead to
hammer on the floor and swear. Then young
Tearer, who belonged to an amateur dramatic
association, said that he would as they In
sisted on it, do some limitations, just a few,
and forthwith libeled twentyeight we'll
known stars In the most mastery manner,
and was the recipient Of the same number
Of enthusiastic encores. Then Monagan, the
baritone, sang 9 The Old Sexton" In style
that made the coal rattle In the cellar, and
after that got halfway through There's
Grape on the Door before he was apprised
by sundry vigorous punches In the ribs Of its
decided appropriateness, upon which he
pulled up in the greatest dismay. Jimmie
Diffenderfer. however, put an end to the gen.
eral embarrassment by volunteering to dance
hornpipe on a table, which he did to the en-
tire satisfaction Of everybody. The table he
first thoughtfully pulled to the foot of the bed,
80 that Guffey could have the best possible
view OF the performance. After that the
whole party vociferously played cards,
smoked, and made hot WHISTLES for two or
three hours, with an occasional song or
| "good story" to relieve the patients tedium.
| About o'clock a. M, however, they observed
| that the sufferer seemed more at ease. So
disseminating vigorous chorus upon which
| they were engaged and with many whispered
injunctions for silence, they turned down the
gas and deliberately filed down stairs on tip.
| toe, and when the good hearted fellows got
safely into the street they shook hands gent
ally, with the air Of persons who had done 8
| good action, and said one to another as they
parted: "Deuced glad the dear old boys
sleeping, amt you'll" But they were mistaken
| he was dead