The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-24
AsARRow ESCAPE.
ssmesn'ng Abeat CHRISTMAS Meat.
and n Bix Refrigerator.


and n BiE Refrigerator
] J. Nurphy's TIE daisy
| That sets thcm all crazy
How he handles the b. tdel
Itjrtt ca hes the trade.
Aud o'ases the cashiers up street
II isn't all slashc,,
Ragged, dirty aud gashed
| As those blacksmiths OF cut .ers all do n;
| But nea sweet and clean
As med OF sixteen,
Aud inAkss man hungry 10 view IL
Yes, stranger, those are facts, ant
don't you is'l to make memoran
dun oft II you want to keep peace Il
the family, fat OIL your ribs, and bic
farewell TO dyspepsia aud strlo meat.
"Who owns this shop2" do you say
Wei. that's richl Why man II |,
Blake's-J. A. Blake, the star butcher
ofTexas; the Insu who Frows a good
beef animal at sight. and don't riow
IT to escape " money will buy it,
You just ought TO see his Christmas
cattle! They are 80 fat yon could put
a horse-car track along their back
anu have plenty of room for sw itches. y
"Hasnt he nothing but beefT
This was too poodl and the newspa-
per ma concluded to just pare we
that newcomer from Dallas right then
and there. SO, as precaution aga;ns
the sudden change OF temperature he
would experience, the scribe r.useo
him to imbibe little extract of corn.
and then marched him into tho big
Stevens refrigerator that Blake keeps
his meats iu, so that all tho animal
heat may be expelled before
lie serves II to his customere,
then closed the door and
watched the effect. To say that the
stranger was astonished would be
drawing il too mild. There were
pheasants, black-tail deer, Whitehall
deer, wild turkeys, great quarters OF
lucious, fat beef, sucking pigs with
dimples in their chins, ribbons in their
cars and lemons in their mouth, veal
bear, quail, chickens, duck. Wild
geese, well in short, about everything
IRON canary birds tongue TO q
kangaroo tail aud picked elephants
feet.
"How docs that stiikc you for a
Christmas lay out, strnugerF' said the
scribe.
"Let me alone, please, I'm sleepy
and see such beautiful visions,r was
the murmered reply.
Quick rs thought the faber-pusher
saw that the unexpected sight of so
many good and rare Christmas things
had turned the mans head, and that
he was nearly overcome by the in-
tense cold in the big refrigerator.
The scribe shouted to Murphy aud
Blake for help, and together they car
ried the poor fellow out were the
stood at 76 degrees IN the
shade, aud by vigorous rubbing and
the judicious use of cognac, saved
the Dallas mans life.
Blake must be more careful about
persons unaccustomed TO
cold wandering about in that big re-
frigerator of his or some one will
freeze to death, and cause his (Blake's)
indictment for granddaughter.
Those christmas meats are all right,
however, and your enjoyment OF the
day will be greatly enhanced if You
purchase your supply of Blake.
If you ceu't go in person, send
your wife or daughter aud let them
enjoy the artistic display, for they
will be treated with as much delicacy
and politeness at Blake's as If shop
ping at Sanger's great dry goods
store.
T.. 81 he last seen of the rescued
Dallas man he was sitting on the de-
pot steps, humming softly:
-. A, Blake takes III , cake
For Cat and juicy IA.
He's bu her from way, way bach.
His K me IL is SO fine
That II fairly takes the shine
He's butcher ron way. way back,