Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-01-13
DEAD MUTTON.
Gut It Gave the Butcher Boy the Livei-
est Kind of n Kick.

CUT It Gave the Butcher Boy the Livei-
est Kind of Kick.
An amusing incident In which
leg OF mutton festive butcher boy
and wandering current OF electricity
figured took place at a meat market
In a Western city lately.
The market in question Is one
story building with ar IRON front and
over its roof pass many electric wires
certain OF which are by means OF
insulators OF course. attached directly
TO the iron front One OF these wires
which conveys the subtitle fluid by
which the market was lighted became
detached from its insulator on the
afternoon in question. and thus came
in contact with the iron front OF the
building.
IRON a steel hook on one OF the
iron door posts there depended tho
aforesaid leg OF mutton. as tender and
inviting as though it were a section
of Marys little lamb itself when.
after being fed chiefly on kindness
and good advice by Mary and her
teacher it had reached maturity and
the butcher after the manner OF its
kind.
This particular leg was intended TO
become a piece de resistance in the
Sunday menu oil a certain hotel at
which local epicures are won't TO con-
gregate. 1t was moreover to be Ia
ken to Its destination at a late hour
In the afternoon or early in the even
ing Thereby hangs the tale OF this
particular sheep and the butcher boy.
The day was cold ana dark and
dreary--it rained. and at an early
hour the shades OF night came on
apace With these shades came as
u ,ual. the electric current whereby
the city is illuminated and following
LESS rapidly however-came the
butcher boy for the mutton When
the current reached the market where
the wire. was detached it spread itself
in great shape and though the pro-
prletors do IA cash business this wan
dering current took the opportunity
OF charging the entire front OF the
! building and the mutton depending
from IT. which had probably been
CDdTRCu SuOuSn iOE OSlOIC-
The butcher boy came when this
overcharging had been &C omplished
and. advancing with outstreiched
arms prepared to deposit the mutton
in the cart He grasped the leg but
instanianeously change came over
his spirit for he gave one wild weird
yell that outwhooped all the Siodx
and shawnees combined. and then be-
gan executing - host dance" all by
himself whic paralyzed passers by
who had never seen mutton served
with such capers before and cause
"Rock and ",owdy" 10 kick impa-
tienty in their stalls at the police
station stables under the impression
that riot was in progress and the
hurry wagon was in urgent request
At last. when through with his
gymnastics the butcherboy was able
TO plain that the seemingly harm
less leg of mutton had given him a
kick that nearly precipitated him in
10 the center OF the subseq ent week.
and would have been regarded as the
GROWING effort OF his career il it had
been executed by a government mule.
AT first he was oifed at by the
other employees. but no gibes or jeer:
would induce him TO touch the mus
cular mutton again and nally IL was
necessary to bring in the assistance
Of pike pole be ore it could be re
moved from its position and taken tc
its destination. Then a ineman wa.
summoned aud the detached wire:
fun was over.