Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-18
A PAINT.POT'S MISSION.
ReJuvenating Damaged Eyes and
other Features-TOuching Up
Dead Bodies.

goggles gone, and delicate flush adorn
ing his face, and looking altogether lik
new man. With him was a freckle
faced, homely individual, with merr.
eye and paint-speckled garments. Thu
first man was telling some kind of a stor!
as they descended the stairs, and thu
painter evidently did not believe it. "lt'
funny how l could have got bruised II
that way, isn't it?" appealed the little
fellow, as he concluded his narrative anc
led the way to the nearest saloon.
eyes, - strange" returned the
paint fellow in disguised tone, and he
ordered the bar-keeper to give him some
thing out of the gilt-edged bottle. He
swallowed it, and, with hasty goodbye
rushed off and into the arms of the
Atlas rounder, who was wondering why
the painter thought the little fellow was
lar.
"Hello, Duck, was the reporters
greeting when he had stayed the speed o
the colliding pedestrian, receiving daut
of paint for his pains.
"Hello, Serb! How's your pencils
Come up stairs and I'll take that sea
green off your ready-made cheap suit"
PAlNIlNO bLhCh 4 les
A moment later the reporter was being
sponged with turpentine in q partitioned
corner of the third largest sign painting
shop in these United States, and being
amused meanwhile by the original re-
marks OF the voluble and funny proprie.
tor.
"Say, Duck" he remarked when his
garment has been restored to its pristine
freshness and beauty, "who was that lit
tie fellow that you just had the drink
WITH"
"Him? Oh, he drifted in TO have a
black eve painted, and he's one OF those
chumps that insist on telling me how he
got it."
''Do you have many of them ?"
"Four or five day. But the funniest
thing about their trade is that nine out OF
every ten of them. insist on telling me
how they got damaged, and they all lie,
Of course. Now, I'm like doctor or a
lawyer; my patrons causes of trouble are
none of my business, and never inquire
into them. If they give me an account
of the manner in which their injuries
were received, know that they are
lying; and don't like it, because their
talk takes up time, and you know what
time is"
''No; what is it?''
Money"
sis that so? Pm astonished. but glad
to hear it. I've got an hour to spare /;
give me S. for it.
Cant. Too much loser already. I'll
tell you story, though. AS l said be-
fore, when a man with black eye tells
me how he got it | know he is lying.
Consequently if he says nothing ! know
he is telling the truth"
Don't these fellows ever sometimes
tell the truth by accident?
INGENIOUS LIES.
"I've had two cases in all my expert
ence, and one OF them put down as the
champion liar. He had small cut and
O black eye that covered half his cheek.
He told me that he fell out of second
story window while chasing cat, and
would have been killed had he not struck
on a crockery hogshead filed with loose
straw that was lying on its side. When
be said that he escaped unhurt with the
single brlise referred to he paralyzed me
so that nearly poked his eye out with
The DdlUI 1uO uSAI tAlO P1POAo
were full of his miraculous escape, and
way down deep in my mind apologized
to him."
"Who was the other George Washing
ton that you have encountered"
"Well, to be more exact, there were
two of them, both miners from Grass
Valley. They had a fight Christmas
night over a dividend, and the next
morning one of them told me all about
it, and wound up by saying that 1 ought
to see the other fellow. By Jove, ] had
no more than finished restoring his
beauty before the 'other fellow walked
in. Say, mister" he sung out, 4 had a
scrap with a duffer from Grass Valley
last night, and / want you to paint my
eve The first man was putting on his
coat at this time, and didn't see him, but
when he heard what was said he pulled
it off again-quick, and at it they went.
Well, sir, they mussed my shop all up
before / got them separated, and then
thew commenced to laugh. fixed them
both up, and they went off together as
friendly as if nothing had happened"
81 suppose you get good deal OF work
from pugilists, Mr.. Duck?"
THAT'S where you're wrong. Those
fellows glory in bruised mugs, and never
have them covered up. 1t makes them
look bad, 1 suppose"
MANAGED Dudes