Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-23
Majah Gutrippali,s spidah.

The Hot Springs. Ark, correspondent OF the
ST. Louis G!Obe Democrat says: L wa, standing
behind Majah GutTippais chair 1t the Airing
ton the other night watching game OF poker
In which he was hardly holding mis- own, when,
just having fallen heavily on a queen full, he
laid aside his sombrero TO mop the boaied per-
Spirat1On from his brow. and IN doing 50 exposed
a startling work Of art in the SHAPE OF mon
strous spider tattoed in the skin of his shining
poll. was fascinated by the horrid thing which
was so cleverly initiated In India Ink tla5it stood
out from the scalp in all the Semoance OF life.
1t made my flesh crawl all over TO look at It, and
| experienced an almost irresistible inclination
10 smash 1t with broom and then ''chug" 1t up
and down half dozen times, as have seen
courageous women do, TO make sure 1 hal
cruSbedit. Ma tah looked Indignantly around. to
see II his Ill luck could be traced to the fact that
any body Was sitting with foot On rung OF
his chair. and caught my fascinated gaze riVetad
On his spider. In moment all his iii humor had
vanished and his red and rotund counJenance
beamed with the pleasure which the inventor OF
patent churn feels In explaining its move
nent at a county fair '.Ah." said he, II see
it was rather clevan ideah. What is the ideah?
: you ask. Why. my deah fellow pilgrim, it
ought TO be obvious TO pusson OF yo' appah'nt
STONY. You see-you may help me TO three
kyahds Mr.. Dealah-evah since lost my hair
from the fevah l have been pestered to deaJn
with the infunnel flies. They made life bud
den to me. sab, every time uncovahed my
head, an as couldn't wear my hat In church.
dreaded for Sunday to come around. Come
L
wash O pennyroyal an carooiic acid, but it
took the skin often my head and then
the peSky flies was WusSen ever. La i
August there come along drunken
l0afer who said he was shipwrecked sailab and
he was tattoOin' mummaids an ships an an
chors On all the boys in town. caught the idea
from him. / asked him If he could tattoo a
Spidah. and he said he'd nevah tried 1t, but he
guessed he could with little practice. 81 =
engaged him good big spidah to sit for his 20 :
trait, and paid niggah S. to let him pra ;tice
on him. He tattoOed that niggah until at a
little distance he looked like Captain CosJenre-
nus, the tattOOed wonder OF Barnum5 SuckiS
He had spidah all over him. The artists fus
proving with each spidah. l wanted him I'd
practice a couple O. days mo- befo trustin' him
with the job o. frescoin my skatin rink, but e
niggah kicked like a mule, and Swore he'd
than have another needle stuck into him, and
had to come to time. How did 1t show on
the niggahs black hide? Well, you see. he
used red ink on the niggah. / felt shuah IL
he could get the outlines all right could trust
him with the shading and the perspective of The
work. You see he has made mighty good JOB
of it. The spidah is so maternal an life-llke
that he'd deceive the elect, and as consequence
no fly has lit on my head since it was put
there. For the first week or two was offully
afraid the - little cusSeS would drop on the
swindle and give it to me hotter'n ever, but
they didn't. By rights oughter patented the
invention, and charged royalty on every
spldah. By JudiciOus advertising | mighca
made fortune Outen 1t. But hadn't the heart
TO do 1t. l Dequeath the invention to the fly
bown bald heads Of the freest and gre Ate>t
country over which the eagle ever screamed.
sab, and when die my name Will be cut In H.
delllble lettahS on the adamantlne walls o. the
Temple o. Fame, alongside OF The buffers who
discovered vaccination, and the Firginny pa
triOt who uug up the secret e. miXin' greens In
his Hcker. You hear my offal hawn."