The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-03-06

OBrien and give him three more days
in the week than / can eat meat on.
MIR. Sullivan seemed very much dis
appointed at the turn of affairs. and
insisted that the pigs should have
been eaten at his hotel and in his
presence. He was somewhat cOusoled.
however, when Mr. O'Brien came in
about midnight after bis ten-mile
tramp and asked for his pigs head.
When it was put before him be set to
work quickly and in less than twenty
minutes reduced it to q pile of we'll
picked bones. He was then anxious
to attack the pigs head which Mr.:
Geoghegan did not appea to claim,
but Baron Feuchtwanger and Sergeant
DoraD succeeded i'm securing it for
themselves and disposed of it with
much relish. Until the close OF the
contest, the pigs heads will be eaten
without publicity, and the number
eaten by each contestant, kept pro-
found secret. so that any betting will
be made in the dark, SO to speak. But
it is generally admitted by the inter-
ested population Of the east side that
Mr.. OBrien will have walk overy.
Thought He Laughed.
Cincinnati saturday Night.
1t was good many years ago. when
We were more conscientious a. 10 the
quantity than the quality of the mat
ter that we furnished the newspaper
with which We were connected.
Seated In a railroad car we noticed
that the individual, great, broad
shouldered, powerful looking man, who
sat directly i'm front of us. was reading
a copy Of our paper, and from the way
in which il was folded we could tell
that it was ole of our own articles, a
humorous sketch in which We took
much pride, that was absorbing his
attention.
Never was man subjected to closer
scrutiny than he from the moment of
this discovery:
"He will like that We solilOquized.
cit will make him laugh when he gets
to the nub of it, :"
We almost envied him the pleasure
that Was in store for him. Presently
he appeared TO be chucklingat a great
rate, We could not see his face. but his
neck was suffused with blood. Evil
IDENTIFY he was enjoying himself hugely.
Then the thought occurred to us that
he would be pleased to make the ac-
uuaintaBce Of the author of the sketch
and We leaned over, touched him on
the arm and said:
"You appear to be amused. May
Ask" but We did not finish the
sentence.
He turned suddenly and scowle'!
upon us in a way that WAS altogether
discouraging.
"Beg your pardon, sir, ! thought
! you l.ughed," We added.
"Well, 1 didn't. Why should /
laugh VIVA! difference is it to you
anyhow i'll did laugh ?"
We stammered another apology
and he resumed his reading.
We felt glad of that we were sure
that the article would finally bring
him around
| In about two minutes he turned up
on us again, and with face full Of
maligDity exclaimed:
1--WE a good molten to wiring your
neck for you. you impudent puppy
| 1t panied us extremely to be ad-
dressed in this manner, but there Was
so much Of earnestness and meaning
in his tone and manner. and our strong
prejudice in favor of unwrung necks
was so great, that we refrained from
resenting it.
j Then he went ON witt, his paper.
Again we were hopeful that all would
Yet be well. Surely he had not reach
ed the funniest part he could never
withstand that, however brutal and
urappreciative he might be. But.
alas, he finished the article without
betraying the slightest CLEAN of pleas.
ure; ON the contrary his face seemed
to grown harsher and harder looking
and he finally folded the paper, tprned
in bis seat SO that he could obtain a
full view us. and sat there glowerine
al us for fully half an hour.
Here was a man without a particle
of humor in his make up. We would
. have been interested i'm making stu
dy of his face, if We had dared We
would have pitied had We not feared
!, him.
) Presently the tight set muscles re
laxed, and soon smile III up his face
AID he extended his hand toward us
"Ah, ha 1t has fetched him a
last" thought We. 1t was our frs