The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-27
WHAT DREAMS NAY COME.
g0oLoGT SEEMS TO HAVE THE GALL
ON THE ALCOHOLISED BRAIN.

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-Four Experienced BevernGists Compare Notes
on Christmas Eve-Ono rs nnciinea 70 Mos
keys, One 90 Mornipg Gior,er. one TO Birds.
aud Ono Cuiivates Ransical Malaria.
They sat around a big table in a saloon as
near to tho Criminal Court building as tho
Tombs is. All of tho REGULARS" wero there
and the rounds OF ammunition" wcro dealt
out so rapidly that within an hour all of.the big
guns :wero loaded. The conversation turned
to drink and finally TO its results.
1T was Christmas eve o year ago. began
Pete. Il arrived homo MS full as a goat, un.
dressed and threw myself on the bed. Then I
stared at the lamp burning on the Sashstand
in my room. In q minute 1 noticed the lamp
beginning to rock from side to side. Some
ono Is shaking the washstand.' I said to my
self, but 1 awaited developments. Finally l
could stand 1t no longer, for the lamp kept tip
ping over just far enough not to lose It's balance.
Every time It tipped l expected to see 1t fall on
the floor. 1 jumped out Of bed and caught hold
OF 1t and held 1t on the washstand. After being
satisfied that 1t had stopped its antics / climbed
back into bed. l made up my mind not TO look
at the lamp again and turned over on my side.
Then I was facing the mantel and my eyes
were directed at the clock. For a few min
utes / stared at the pendulum swinging to and
fro. Then all Of a sudden the pendulum got to
going faster. 1t finally went SO fast that !
thought It would jerk the clock of the mantel.
So 1 got out Of bed and stopped the clock by
pushing o bundle Of paper up beside the pendu-
lum wire. When 1 got back to bed I decided
to lie on my back and just look at the ceiling,
for l began to think that something was wrong
In the room. While looking at the ceiling I
saw the flowers in the wall paper move. There
was a big vine that I noticed particularly. At
first there were no flowers on 1t, hut one by ono
/ saw little morning glories come out and
bloom on the vine.
Getting out Of bed I picked up my cane and
tried to knock down some of the morning glo-
ries. 1t seemed as II every time I struck at n
particular flower that one disappeared and
others bloomed Mt another end of tho vine. I
could stand 1t no longer. so I got up and dressed
myself. When l was fully dressed I glanced
calmly about the room and looked at the
ceiling. Everything was still. The flowers
had stopped blooming. and 1 could only see
be vine patterns printed on the wallpaper. So
undressed again and climbed back to bed.
stand. I finally resolved to get out t Of the
room. and ! did SO, going to a Raines law hotel,
t wnSfs 1 f'f really al an th arfh' I ehha ad aeI aP sns t 9rs.
mens.. ,.s .,o n MEAN u,r,. ,uu
When, You drink a great deal q ehsmpasno
however, are pleasant compared to the mon
keys. II you ever get tho monkeys on a stormy
might nna r tine G %ntiI fhi Hox TO ps ao Is to close 0Ser yolTi !n EYES
drug store: Then tell your troubles to the
druggist: l had the monkeys on the night of
here 10 my store. 1t was SO cold / kept drink.
Ing hot Scotch to warm up, and as i had been
was Completely saturated with hb's it. We had
nothing here to eat, and / had missed five
for Centre street was chock full of snow. When,
l reached White street l heard a sharp squeak,
anu monkey ,nGss"t on al the Window ce 3 DEtD'i HI made az
faces at me and squeaked. Then he began to
threw the icicles at me, aiming directly at my
head. He was a good shot. and could throw
threw a chunk Of Ice at him. He jumped ten
armed with an awfully big icicle, the monk
climbed down from the window cornice and
gr rim at me in a tantaiiziing way. and then
heaved the big icicle at my face. | saw the
point of it coming, and, ~dodging. fell over q
s shSnS OF ice ! s sSd TIP Threw ae'iS t Z t frsG @enk, up But {
by the time the ice landed at the place where
cornice and begun heaving icicles again. Then
! tried to run. He got back in my path and we
ISaxas f how Wy I p tried. for he Seu eoald dodge R,d e'@ easi HS
while | was almost exhausted from lodging.
Finally ran at him, and he der,ed up on the
He leased and worried me again for q block.
and l finally fell at tho corner Of Canal street.
nUmp up and p took me to a h pti'e Where P' / re.
manned for the night. The next morning l
was satisfied that simply had had a case of
ri generally get the birds when I'm drink.
ZONE at midnight and found my room full of
the strangest birds man ever saw. They flew
about the room, lit on my head and shoulders
and pecked at my hands, but I let EN- peck for
/ had had them before. They were of all colors
and sizes. Some Ind monstrously large eyes
and others had bills as long as a yard stick.
l got into bed quickly and they began to fly
around the room. Then covered up my head
I got SO accustomed to the Birds that one night
on the way home ! got to thinking about them
So q I sopp ID in a ia '" on au the B BONE Y and and
bought three bird cages and a bag Of bird seed.
When got home 1 found the birds, as usual.
and commenced operations to trap them. j
chased one big. yellow fellow all around the
room and just when l had him cornered the door
the house rushed in: l made n pass to grab the
Dir bird ana ups upset n a Glass ;S closet SET which innn t fell upon
The lamp set fire to tho carpet. but tho boarders
extinguished the flames. I had one of the bird
cages under my arm when they DRAGGED mo
doing, and one of the Oldest boarders who had
had some experience in bird trapping put mo
mistress presei ted a bill for $40 for furniture
damaged. paid the bill and was ordered to
get q new boarding house."
Il am generally troubled with musical
tho cornet player of Walhalla; sometime when
1 trink thirty or forty beers at a east side ball.
und come home on bed hear such a fine
play it at tall or a violin. L listen to der
playin' und woke my wife oop to hear 1t. Den
she growis and says / got 'em again. She
so does every one else" said Pete. the man
were never known TO say turkey in your fife.
ing myself"
Rather than be disgra, d Abe summoned the
bartender. He ordered some musical malaria
bacilli, while Court House Bill called for bird
seed and the proprietor OF the saloon took the
monkey brand.