Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-06-05
the FELjCiANa SENTINEL
THAT HAT.

that was ever played on a white
man was played last week III
this city, and the fact that there
is no vigilance committee here
is the only reason the perpetra-
tors of the trick are alive. "A
business man had just purchas-
ed a new stiff hat, and he went
into a saloon with half a dozen
friends to tit the hat on his
head. They all took beer, and
passed the hat around so all
could see it. One of the mean
est men that ever held a coun-
try Office went to the bar-ten-
der and had a thin slice of lin
berg cheese cut Off, and when
the party were looking at the
trescoed ceiling through beer
glasses, this wicked person slip
bed the cheese under the sweat
leather of the hat, and the man
nut it on and walked out. The
man who owned the hat is one
of YOUR nervous people, who is
always complaining OF being
sick, and who feels as though
some dreadful disease was go
ING to take possession OF him
and carry him off: He went
back to his place Of business,
took off his hat and laid 1t on
the table and proceeded to an
swer some letters. He thought
he detected a smell, and when
his partner asked him If lie
didn't teel sick he said he be-
lieved he did. A clerk said it
was evident that somebody's
feet needed washing. The man
turned pale, and said he guess
ed he would go home"
He met q man on the side
walk who said the air was full
of miasma, and in the street car
a man who sat next to him
moved away to the end OF the
car, and asked himifhe had just
come from Chicago. The man
with the hat said he had not,
when the stranger said they
were having a great deal OF
smallpox there, and he guess
ed he would get out and walk,
and he pulled the bell and jump
ed off. The cold perspiration
broke out on the forehead OF
the man with the new hat, and
he took it off to wipe his fore
head when the whole piece OF
cheese seemed to roll over and
breathe, and the man got the
full benefit of it, and he came
near fainting away. He got
home, and his wife met him
and asked him what was the
matter. He said he believed
modification had set in, and she
took one Whit, as he took Oft
his hat, and said she should
think it had. "Where did you
get into it," said she. "Get
into it?7 said the man, IL have
not got into anything, but some
deadly disease has got hold OF
me, and I shall not live.' She
told him if any disease that
smelled like that had got hold
of him, and was gong to be
chronic, she felt as though he
wouId he a burden to himself
if he lived very long. She got
his clothes off, soaked his feet
in mustard water, and he slept.
The hat was lying on the CEN
tire table, and the children
would come in and get a smell
of it and look at each other with
reproachful chances, and go out
and play. The man slept and
dreamed that a smallpox flag
was hung in front of his house
and that he was riding in a
butcher wagon to the pest
house. The wife sent for a
doctor, and when the man of
pills arrived she told him all
about the case. The doctor
picked up the patients new
hat, tried it on, and got a sniff.
He said the hat was picked be-
fore it was ripe. The doctor
and the wife held a post NOR
tenn examination ofthe hat, and !
found the slice Of limberg. Few /
and short were the prayers they |
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