The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-10-29
The Man With a Rome.

AT exactly 10 O'Clock yesterday forenoon a
citizen of Detroit was going up Monroe ave-
nue. with basket on his arm, and at precise
| ly the same moment farmer was coming
down the same avenue with a rope in his
hand and limp in his left leg. They met
| The citizen would have passed on and pur-
| chased peck of green tomatoes for pickles,
but the farmer halted him with the query:
Say isn't your name McDuffp"
mo, sir" was the prompt reply
IL belieye it is" continued the farmer, as
| he looked him over. "Were you one of the
judges on hogs at the State Fair?"
mo, sir. | never judged hog in my life,
and | wasn't inside the fence while the fair
lasted"
"Mebbe you are not the man, though you
look like him. Have you minute to spare ?"'
mo, sir I've got to go back and go up in
to the City Hall tower.n7a
"Then I'll go with you. | want to see the
tower, and want to tell you about McDuf"
Cant you come to my Office in half an
hour?" said the citizen as he halted
mo, sir. | want TO tell you now. You
see, sent prize hog to the fair was laid
up with rheumatism, and the old woman and
boy brought him in. That hog"
"Pve got to take that car" interrupted the
citizen.
"And I'll take it, too. Pm looking for the
hog, and might as well go one way as an
other. That hog was regularly entered, put
in pen, and everybody who saw him said
he was boss over everything in his line in
that show. His breed was the Golden Sun
shine, and purifier, cleaner"
"YOu must excuse me, but I've got to meet
friend at the depot" protested the citizen
"I'd just as lief walk down with you, for
don't see the cars very often. Hundreds of
people saw that hog and admired him, and
dozens ofmen told my old woman he'd walk
off with the first premium. now come TO
McDutf."
eyes, yes, but I can't wait another mo-
ment"
"You needn't wait for me. I'll walk along
with you and tell you the rest as we CO.
This McDuff was one of the three judges on
hogs. A friend of his had little runt of a
pig there with hard knot in his tail and his
hind legs as crooked as q COW path, and
while two of the judges pulled strong for my
hog, this McDutf declared in favor of the
other" ...a..
"You see, can't possibly wait to-"
81 see you can't, but when the judges found
themselves divided, what happened? This
McDuf-"
At this point the citizen started of, and had
got ten feet the start, when the farmer pur-
sued saying:
"This McDuff claimed that my Golden
Sunshine was too light in the snout, and he
prevailed upon the old woman to let him out
and give a roofing exhibition.
The citizen was lost to sight around the
corner, but the farmer put on steam and got
near enough to say:
"He bolted off the grounds, just as McDuff
knew he would, and pve limped over sixteen
square miles of territory without hearing of
him. Say, believe you are McDuff."
The citizen made for the Central Market
in trot, but he hadn't been lost in the crowd
over minute when the painting farmer ar
rived and said:
"And demand satisfaction for the job you
put up on a woman who hasn't had tooth
in her head for fifteen years"
He pulled off his coat and made such fuss
around there that a policeman had to scare
him away.-Detl0h Free Press.