San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-24
IF THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND,
You may Call This Find, Three Of
Kind" a Going IL Blind"

Kind a Gong II BllLu.
Sweet are the uses Of adversely sings the
reckless pOet, but he would not nnd u !ultt
80 sweet IL his adversely led him into the ditch
and covered his fair summer garments WIN
san PedrO's f5uicst OOZe When ADVERSELY
puts himself. herself, or itself 10 suCh uses u
Is anything else but sweet, for dripping skirts
and muddicd feet are anything Uut nice ana
neat league from home, ana al 10 m. OF
dark night, in a strange place anu no uTy
forgery or dressing room within the radlus OF
two intcrminable miles. A reporter OF the
LIGHT seeking news in dark places IOunu
some. He found pair who went ~ Dllllu, ana
another one who stTaddled his blind. The
blind that was straddled was ditch ana much
solid ground of fact was found at the bottom
OF IL. The pair who went II blind were TWO
cOnHding damsels who trusted themselves 10
the safe conduct and good guidance OF an IN
experienced pilot ana we're shipWreckeu on
the shores of the san Pedro. BREEZY II was
thus. Just before the moon shed hef soit ray ;
over the still tree tops OF san fedro
park, on an evening not in the long ago, three
strangers to those classic shades emerged IRON
San Pedro hOrsc-caT; to wander thrOugh thc
park and drink in the delights of that witchlng
hour, sacred to sentiment and 'skecters. The
male divinCly ianked by his fair attendants,
meandered aimlessly until they espled the
doorway of the rocky gIOttO, near the balcony
of the refreshment hall. Kind fate safely con
Quoted them through the portal, but unklnd
fate attended, on their exit. Instead OF re-
crossing on the little fOot-bridge, over when
they entered, the darkness of that part OF the
grounds being rs palpable as that OF Egypt,
they turned of to the left and, ere they knew,
found truth, not at the bottom OF the well, but
at the bottom of "a ditch, waist deep with water
and Shiny mud. Into this involuntary mud
and water bath one of the ladies sank until
only her head and shoulders were out OF
water The other fortunately escaped with
only foot bath, having recovered her steps as
the other slipped into the OOZe. the gentleman
was tall. He was clad in II white linen duster
and us its streaming skirts tlOatcd out upon
the treachl rOus waters, he was picture Tor
gods and merry maidcns TO behold To the
grit of the unfOrtunates DE 1t SAID they uttered
no cry. The dry-garmcntcd maiden Draccd
herself for a pull and the linncn ulster came
ashore with its burden of muddy manhood
inside A Joint effort rescued the all-but-lm-
mCrscd damsel, and three more or less uniorlu-
mates stood dripping on tine bank. A hack was
ordered by telephone. Lemon hot was taken
in the shade, the unimmcrsed acting rs ms
trcss Of ceremonies, and IN due time the Two
were restored to the hotel from whence they
had gone out suddcr, muddIcr ana wiser imam
before. "
The moral of this muddy tale is twO-iold' Ike
the victims thereof. 1t teaches all ladies' 10
beware of accepting as pilots TO strange
places on dark nights those who nave no
knowledge of the whence and whittier thereof.
1t also admOnishes the park keepers that
light near the grOtto door would not be
sinecure The moral is just rs pat as
though names had been mentioned ana the
park people will not satisfy any vain curiOsl-
ty; but the facts are as stated.