Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-02-15

the chamberlain of the dormitory floor
suddenly descended to the Office as if
sorely perpleXed.
"Did get your order for 1913 to be
done up, sir?"
Exactly; 1873. Put it to rights"
"Well, | bcgs your pardon, sir, but
the OF gent as is in there says as ces
takin' bit o. nap; as is room is is
castle; an cell ave me shotif bothers
i'm agin, sir"
"Oh, very well" said the clork laugh
ing. Its Mr. Pipperchirp. Odd old
fellow. He's gone back to his own
room then 7"
81 should venture &c I'D. sir
Don't disturb him. Put 1875 to rights,
instead"
In few moments more the dormitory
chamberlain appeared again at the desk
in thoroughly disordered state. He
was painting little, and appeared to
have been in tussle.
Something wrong, sir, in my all, sir.
Mr.. Pipperchirp's hoccurpyin' two
rooms, sir. Ee's in 1876 now leastwise
ee was, sir. unlocked til door, sir, an
there ee was, dancin' an cuttin' it on
common fat, like ee'd lad it trihe to
'eavy, sir. says, I've borders on the
room, SIR Ee says, Hill ave horders
on your 'ead, sir! With that, sir, ee
eaved bundle o. canes at me, an drove
me, cad ON, agin 1873, sir, an ee-'Hi've
not 'ad drop this day fortnight, sir!-
jerked open is door, sir, an swore ee'd
run me through An if Hive not lost
my senses, sir, the two old uns, then
catchin' sight o. one another, 'Hutted 7
an 'rutted I an 'Poohed = an 'Bahed 7
an glared an glowered, an slammed
their doors an are stompin' an ragin'
inside, this blessed minute Don't take
my word, sir. That Pipperchirp is
double, sir, or them rooms is single, or"
The distressed chamberlain was at
this moment interrupted by the furious
ringing of the office bells connecting
with the Pipperchirp apartments.
Seldom as is the hotel clerk suscepti-
BILE to agitation, IL Is not overstepping
the bounds of truthful expression TO say
that for once the clerk of the Slayistork
was genuinely agitated.
On reaching the dormitory hall he
found the Pipperchirp apartments not
only barricaded against entrance, but
their respective occupants employed,
when not ringing the bells whose
clamor could be family heard from the
office below, humping and whacking
as if at some invisible adversary,
"Bahingp and "Huttingr' as the
chamberlain had truthfully described;
while up and down the hall were rows
of peering silver heads, set with dubious,
startled eyes, ducklng and bobbing in
and out of various apartments as the
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creased.
"My dear sir 2" said the clerk in his
most persuasive tones, while tapping
softly at the door of 1913.
"Itut! hutl Don't dear sir me, sir !
l wont have it, It's an outrage, sir !
dear, dear! 10 get yourself up like me
and plant yourself like mummy OPP
posite my apartment Dear, dear! I'll
have the law on the housed I'll call
you out, sir. Hull I'll spit you like
the puppy You are, sir. Hut! hut!
hut y"
The voice of the erst bland Mr.. Piper
chirp was here lost in its own high
| pitched frenzy.
my dear, dear sir ~ now pleaded the
clerk, timorously tapping at the door OF
the opposite apartment.
"Bully and whine bully and whine,
| you old sarcophagusl Oh, dear, do =
Yes, yes, yes Ban Do come in Bah
Don't fall back on the code, sir. Don't
wait for second, sir; oh, no, no I'll
settle your pretensions, as we do at
Ballarat, sir Bring your knife, do;
bring your pistol, do ! I'll skewer you
before you've tune to beg, with one of
these canes, sir! Do come in-yes, yes,
yes Bah Hut! and Bah-h-h.h
again, sir T"
Poor old Pipperchirp in 1875 was now
dancing and charging about in very
delirium of indignant valor.
"But my dear sirs / beg of you--Tm
the clerk; clerk of the Slavistork;" this
to both rooms and both connections.
"There's been some serious mistake,
| sirsw
"Hut, not bit of 1t! He's deliber-
ate ruffian !" came holly from 1873.
"No mistake at all, sir. He's bully
ing old scoundrel % was hurled back as
defiantly from 1876.
"But gentlemen, gentlemen !-Messrs.
Pipperchirp! pleaded the clerk despair.
ingly.
Hut bah There is but one Pip
perchirp2" shouted the enraged old
men simultaneously; followed with
equally indispensable challenges from
opposite rooms of, "Hut! He's pre-
tender!" and Hes an impostor, bah %
AT this critical juncture the disordered
chamberlain whispered humbly to the
clerk: "Might Hi venture to say, sir, as
low you might some 'ow interjuce the
| Other IN th' rother dir ~
1t was an inspired idea, but the man
ner of its execution put the clerk to
his wits ends. The ancient guests of
the dormitory had now vehtured into
the hall, were gathering in shocked and
startled groups near the Pipperchirp
apartments, and something must be
speedily done. The clerk hastily con-
suited with some of tho wiser and
drawer of the old men. Shortly one
was stationed at each door and after
much preliminary door, tapping and
clearing of asthmatic Threats, each
soothingly began: "Ah-ah, gentleman
within, sir? Mr.. Pipperchirp, sir ?"
The snorting and cavorting within
the Pipperchirp apartments seemed to
be gradually diminishing.
"Mr. Pipperchirp ?" continued the
old men insinuatingly, "did you ever
have relative, sir?"
"Hut! yes;" came from 1893. "Went to
Ballarat fifty years ago. No good. Died.
Dear, dearl That man there should be
turned over to the law
From 1876 came the irascible rejoinder
Eyes. Wish hadn't. upstart. Went to
Madras forty years ago. Dead. Bah ~
"Your brother, ah-is alive at this
moment, sirn shouted the two old men
at opposite keyholes, slapping their