The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-19

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when his feet struck a slippery place on
the walk, and be came. down with q
crush. 1t was astonishing to know how
suddenly the young mans voice of ten
derness could change to the most We
hement emphasis.
Playing the Vaccination Dodge
On a Lager Beer Vendor.
Bright and early yesterday morning
n middle,aged man of ANXIOUS look and
much corporosity called at the City
Hall and went for the Chief of Police
with:
"Haf we some shmall~box 10 De-
troit?"
81 believe we have q spasmodlc case
or two" vas the reply.
.'Und doze somepoddy haf to get
waccineted to keep him away?"
Every citizen should protect him
self"
How many dimes was 1 get waccin-
ated to keep dot shmall box out me
houae und s~aloon?"
ooh. | guess oEce will do"
"Vonce! Great Skinny! No more
ash dot? Shust wait a minlt!"
He jerked off his coat and pushed up
his shirt~sleeves, and pointed to four
spots on his left arm and five on the
right, and said: -.
-Four and five makes lime dimes dot
l vhas waccinated in four days!"
"How is that?"
How ish dot? Dots What l likes
myself to know. l vhas shust reading
about dat shmail box de odder day ii
der Sherman bapers when two men
vhalks in mine saloon und says:
"Sharley, dot shma!l- box is all ofer
down, und you must be waccinated or
der Common Council Will close you
opp SO I was waccinated for two
shillings und zwei class beer"
yes"
sit yhas shust two hours more as a
man comes in und say he was sent to
waccinata me on der odder arm, und
I pays him two shillings und class of
beer"
Yes"
Before night a man NIT %spectacles
comes in und says he vas sent by der
Healthy Poard to see oof / vhas wac
cinnated, I show him two places, but
lie shakes his headt und says: Dot
vaccination am too high oop, und you
Will git der shmall-box in her hands"
Den he makes dot blaze here, und 1 gift
him twenty five cents und class beer"
'FYes.'
"Den six more men comes aroundt to
waccinnate me by order of der Mayor,
der Gu~fernor, der PRESIDENT, der Poard
of Bubble Works, und 1 doan't know
What else, und efery time | bays two
shillings und class beer. When L ' has
w~accinnated nine times [ begins to pc
lieve I vas a greensboro, und when der
tenth man ONE aroundt l hit him on
der head NIT q bottle and WALKS oafer
to see you about it. Vhas it all right?"
81 guess the boys were guying you"
''Vhat is dot?"
''Why, you haven't really been vac
cinated at ALL"
Nor
ono; and you'd better be vaccinaed
again"
:'Waccinated again? Waccinated den
dimes? Meier! Pefore I vhas waccin>
ated den dimes I catches der shmall-
box und goes to ped nit him all yum
mer! Dots some c%losepins like ! ami
Asking Pa.
One Sunday night last summer, Bug"
by vas drawing near the abode of his
afianced, when he saw her father sit
ting under q cherry tree in the yard.
What better opportunity would ever
present itself? He thought to himself,
none. He turned about and walked
round the square just as as man who
had a tooth to be extracted will walk
rapidly by the dentists a number Of
times before he ventures in. Bugby's
head grew first hot and then cold, as he
thought of the fearful undertaking be-
fore him. He reached the garden gate
and entered. He had passed through
the gate many times before, but he
never felt as he did now. Nor was the
feeling imaginary, it was terribly real.
With a trembling step and giddy brain
he approached to within ten feet of
where the old gentleman was seated
and gasped:
"Please SIR"
The person addressed made no res
spouse. If a force pump of forty horse
power had been injecting hot blood into
his head it could not have felt worse.
He moved forward about two inches.
"Please, sir, Ill" this was about
as far as he got, for his tongue seemed
to be about as thick as an Arctic over
shoe"
The party addressed did not seem to
move q muscle, but everything else was
swimming about promiscuously. Bugby
moistened his feverish lips with his
tongue and then began where he left
off.
81 love yo-"
lie could proceed no further. If that
little word "love" had been a green
apple lodged in his throat, it could not
have come nearer choking him. 1t
stuck there almost az solid as though
it was a lump of cold glue. He wished
in his heart he hadn't undertaken the
Job, but there he was and no power of
himself to get away. He was about to
speak again when his heart gave such o
thump against his vest that it frighten.
ed the hat off his head. Composing
himself a little he began at the very be-
ginning.
"Please. sir, I love your daugher,
and-p
This was about one.third of what he
had to say. but it seemed far less, there
was so much remaining. 1t was now
getting to be quite dark. The old gen.
tleman's indifference made Buggy more
desperate, and he determined to finish
what he had to say, come life or death.
"Please, sir. Hove your daughter and
wish to make her my wife. Do you
give your consent?' and with the quess
finn lo prrla1 f-,~.l - Q-.,- hn,s