Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-12-21

The Dickens Racket.


The Dickens Racket.
A tramp printer while passing q
drug store heard gentleman remark
Ito the druggist that he was the exact
picture Of Charles Dickens. The
printer saw at a glance that the drug.
gist was fiattered, and Immediately
settled upon plan by which he would
be relieved of the painful necessity
Of striking the bartender. = Pretty
soon the printer retnrhed. and step.
ping into the drug store said to the
proprietor:
Excuse me, sir. for addressing
you, but in = passing your .house
could not help but notice striking
resemblance between you and the late
and famous Charles Dickens, whose
manuscript 1 have many a time Sc,
up. The sight of your face in mo.
ment turned upon me food OF rec.
ollections in relation to the great nov.
elist. -. .
"Won't you be seated!" asked the
druggist.
''No, l am in something of hurry
to get q pint Of whiskey for a sicl
friend.'' 3E #S
II have some very fine whisky here
sir.'
eyes, but as my finances or low
or rather exhausted, am compelled
to get it where am known. Up the
street here gentleman credits me. -
81 can let you have it ON the same
terms," said the druggist, smiling il
recollection of his resemblance tt
Dickens. 81 never have any mis-
giwngs in regard to man whose fact
bears, as yours does, such indica
tiens of honesty" 5z
The printer secured the whisky ant
when he reached the "ranche,' +.
squalid room where he lived will
another printer and a shoemaker, h,
related his experience, when they al
agreed that a rich mine had been dis
covered. For several days the prin
4 ter secured the whiskey, and then thu
second went around and was strucl
with the resemblance. Finally th,
shoemaker''s. turn arrived. He wa.
drilled carefully by the printers ant
cautioned, on account of his neglect
ed literary training, not to make an,
ventures.
''Oh, I can hold it down." said tn
shoemaker. "Give me the bottle
I'll get the best he's got" He wen
to the store and meeting the proprie
etor said:
"Wel, sir, its mighty strange, bu
you are exactly like Dickson"
''Like whom, sir?'
''Dickson the book-binder. DON
you know him?" s}
"No, sir; Idon't." -'-n s-=-=-~
'It's mighty strange. The boy
have been coming around here TO
I
some time, talkin' to you about Dick
son and gettin' the whisky, but whel
1 come you don't know anythin!
about it. Fill up this bottle anyway
} cap'n. I don't want the gang tt
guy me-
The druggist took the bottle, ant
moving around among different jar
filed it, while a revengeful twinkl
danced in his eyes. When the shoe
maker returned to the "ranche" tn
printers complimented him on hi
success, but shortly afterwards, whel
they heaved and groaned in suddel
and awful sickness, they cursed tn
druggist and his resemblance to tn
great master of London low life de
scriplon.
The Story Of Commercial Traveller
Travelling men, whose bushes
calls them to the South, where tn
floods prevails, all 60 armed with fish
hooks and lines, and baking powde
cans filled with angle worms, AM
when they 60 to bed nights, they Sc
the hooks around the bed. A trav
eler for a Chicago grocery house Sc
his hooks in a Cairo hotel last Sun
day night, and the water filled hi
room before morning, and he caugh
five large catfish and two sturgeon
The lines were hitched to the be-
, posts, and the man was awakened b
having the bed hauled around by tn
! fish. He slipped his fish to the hous
; he was travelling for, with an expls
, nation of the circumstances, and b
was surprised to receive a telegrar
from the house the next day dis
charging him for fishing on Sunday
He claims that he only set his line
on Sunday night, and that the fis
did not bite until Monday morning
} but the house will not accept his ez
planation. This seems a little hare
i but we must remember that the Ch
cago wholesale houses go great de'
. on their piety. The man should nj
d be out a job, and we trust som
wicked Milwaukee house will give hil
one. The lot of the drummer is SUI
rounded with many hardships, whe
water is high.
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