The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-25
Retribution at Last.

They came around the COZ Ter side by side.
says the Boston Courier. On Boggs' face
were symmetrical little mutton chops and a
smile as broad as was the third party's plat
form. On Dudley faCeNvas q look OF double
I loaded dependency and a nose which had
started early in life to grow toward the right.
/ but which had subsequently changed Its mind
and turned toward the left.
oh 90 said BOggs, as they came up 10 US,
/ don't look so blue over il, Dudley. You see
/ gentlemen he went on, turning TO US. Il am
/ quite famous in the Joke cracking line, and
have been practiclng little on my friend
here. Meeting him on the street asked very
( seriously.
% Would you. believe that our friend Gam
mon beat his wife terribly last night
&c Get out. he returned, oh so innocently,
| Why. how did lie come to do that:
"Ninktng my eye at him, summoned my
ready Wit and replied:
" Playing cards"
OF course it was only natural for US to
smile. and when BOggs observed us doing
| that, he let loose yell that caused his alb
normally protuberant bread basket to dance
lIg on its foundations and turned the car
mine In Dudley nose to blue.
After the laugh had subsidized. a half-mast
! man. with a silk nat and fundamentally com
pleXiOn came forth from among us, and sta
uonlng himself beside the invincible Joker,
asked In a sepulchrai tone OF voice.
My dear sir, do you think il is right to pass
your days away in one long uubroken spring
OF mlrthtulneSS, never looking at the stern
and solemn side of ifes"
Why. Of course, " replied I3Oggs. emphatic
| ally, undoubtedly I believe in getting out of
! life all the enjoyment there is in ties
lie tally when one seems to be Sit. ed in that
line, like myself. Why, sir, I've been living
IN this town for twenty years, and I've never
been caught in q Joke in all that time. I've
never been taught in anything-not even in a
shower.
On the contrary, have had lots of fun
catching my fellows, and much do enjoy it,
There is no use in being melancholy and long
faced when one has the Wit that 1 have and
ne pa ed MS fingers in his vest pockets and
looked as uncOnQusrable as a bulldog in a
front yard.
But my kind, frolicsome friend" again
commenced his QueStioner. Il think you will
throw aside your gayety, for time at least.
Wnen NOl hear the report about your only
son. who was rec entity welded to the youn
and charming Mss erase. they say that he
is now running around with a married
woman,
Instantly Boggs' face assumed an express
sion of redh hot anger.
1t 5 lie. he belehCd forth, bringing his
nand down on the other shoulder with a
slap, 1t 5 lie, sir, and l am prepared to
pulYerlZe and send home in a dinner kettle
the unprinclpled cuss who started such
rumor. My son IS a good, upright young man,
and such behavior is below him. Perhaps
married woman is with whom he is running
around; "
Yes answered the short. sallow com
pleXlOued man. as he coughed a lump out of
his wife"
Dudley, who had come around the corner
win his friend, looking as blue as the skv
above, now opened his Jaws clear back to his
larynX, and yelled until he was stopped by the
police, while his royal fairness. Mr.. Bogrs
pulled at his nose a few times kicked him
sell ana walked off like an ordinary man
gong with his wife to prayer meeting.