The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-02
THa J0KEHs 56gEp
And the Victim Lives, Laughs and
Grows Fat.

fellow came from the Golden Gate tc
spend few days with acquaintance
I here. The friends we're glad to see
] him, introduced him around and
| tried to make it pleasant for him. So
they took him to the home of a young
lady Who loves lively company, prac-
teal jokes and the good things of life
5 generally. On several occasions per-
3 sons had been taken to this house and
{ it had cost them something for Oysters
+ and etceteIas before they could get
f away, and the boys made up their
. minds that il would cost Sandy g
] neat little sum tom other words,
they would initiate him into
? the Free Masonry of the new craft,
/ So they took Sandy up and made a
= coed ready to take Sandy in. But
somehow Sandy was a dull boy and
he did not tumble" Whsn oysters
and the etceteras were mentioned,
and the boys having brought I'D the
topic we're finely compelled to dive
down into their pockets and bring
forth The wherewithal TO supply the
DecessaTies for the evenings enjoy
ment. Sandy enjoyed the treat and
thought it was good TO be in Salt
Lake, while the boys Rrinued under
the turn things had taken; but they
would be revenged, and a sudden plot
was laid 10 entrap the innocent San
FTsnciscOan. Marriage was the topic,
and Sandy and the young lady were
said to be charming couple, and
should become one. Both feeling de-
Lighted, yielded in good nature to the
plan. and a young man from the Orient
stood up and graVely pronounced them
man and wife after having gone
through q semblance Of the ceremony
customary in marriages, and the
union was spoken OF as though fact
for the rest of the evening.
After the party left the boys started
in TO convince Sandy that be had
actually been married; that he was a
bona tide husband, aid though
making Light of it for some time, he
gradually became convinced and be.
moaned his fate; but ia his broken
sentences and amid bis tears, which
flowed freely and we're az salt az tears |
generally are, re was heard to say |
that since he was married be would |
DO the best he could for the girl. |
Seeing they had convinced him, and |
that the joke had worked to a charm, !
the boys piled it OF, and remarked |
that he was 3 Irregular d-n ph0Ol;"
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rest; be was IN bad fix
and he consoled himself by getting
fall, at least be appeared to. l.
pr5yed upon his mind, and kept |
preying, and the boys kept piling It
on, until Sandy got sick; seriously
sick; so sick that the boys became
alarmed. He Was taken 10 the house
o. one Of them; nurses engaged, a
doctor hired and every delicaoy that
he could Wish for was luTnished.
Some OF the b0ys wanted to drop him
and gIOwied because the joke had
cost them a few dollar; but the others
we're going to see Sandy through, and
did. He had bad spells and wanted
to Kill himself, so q person was hired
10 watch him and the boys themselves
spent sleepless nights by bis bedside.
The doctor insisted that there was
nothing the matter with him, but
Sandy kept getting worse right along
and little hope was entertained of his
recovery. a number of days passed
and Sandy made no perCeptible i'm
provement, but the boys got tired
end wanted to send him hack 10 San
Sandy, however, could not
60. One night they left him acne
and an incredulous member OF the
crowd hired young fellow 10 watch
the sick man through the window;
sud the report was that he was SO
tai during the night that he arose
several times, Though he could
move during the day, walked
around the room and smoked and
read and had Z good time generally.
Finally they got Sandy 10 leave;
carriage was hired for him and he
was taken to the depot; one of the
boys, more kindly than the others,
gave him SO or SIS, and hired
man to take him TO Ogden and help
him along. During all this time the
boys had had been growing about the
fine Joke they had played on the
''d-n phool;" and on the return OF
the person hired to accompany him
to Ogden, they all gathered to hear
toe report. The fellow swore at the
AFFAIR and said that all the way up
Sandy was fearfully i'll but that as soou
as the train reached Ogden be jumped
up, leaped onto the platform, made
a dive for the hotel table and ate ike
a wolf. Then the boys saw who had
been sold, who had spent filthy" in
5he fine game, and who was or were the
''d-n phools." They will look for
softer material hereafter.