The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-01
SQUARED ACCOUNTS.
HOW pE SMITH TURNED SEVERAL IA
6lEs ON HIS FRIEND JONES.

started lu W III shower bAths FOLLOWED l..
with several other Annoying Plea&an- 20
tries and Wound Up with n Grand On ~
slAuEht Of Life Insurance Agents.
"well. l guess I've got even with eo
Jones all right enough for all the prac- N
teal jokes he has been playing on me &C
for the last week, said De Smith - :,
gleefully. as he hung mp his coat and p
took his seat at the luncheon table with eI
a party of friends. p
"How's that?" asked one of the
friends. a,
We'll. Jones is great joker, you n
know" explained De Smith. He
thinks it's good thing to thump and e
pound like the deuce on fellows door u
as he goes down the hotel corridor r
about O'Clock in the morning He new
er goes to bed when decent man
should. and he rather Tesents il if any
of his friends DO He has been pound
/ ing ON my door that way now almost
/ every morning for the past week
why didn't you get up and kick
4 him?" asked one of the party.
Il did Try to three or four times, re-
piled De Smith, "but be always got
down the hall little way and then
laughed at me But I'm even with him
now. Twas fixed for him when he came
along this morning had big pail of
water fixed over the transom, and when
old Jonesiecame along and began thump
ing l pulled the string fastened to it,
and heard old Jonesie curse under his
breath and mutter, Darn you, De
Smith, I'll get even for this, Then he
walked down the hall and | looked out .
in time TO see him shaking the water |
off his coat and hat.
THAT was getting even pretty well,
old man. wish could have seen him
when the food struck him, put in one
of the party.
"Oh, that was all right for start
err" said De Smith, "but it wasn't
half the dose l gave him after. You
: see, Jones has been breaking my sleep
: for week, and it took more than
e bucket of water to square accounts. !
: anticipated his visit of this morning,
C 80 last night before going to bed | left
j an order to call him at 8 o'clock. Old
Jonesie didn't get to bed before 8
r O'Clock, so he didn't get much sleep be-
> fore 6. Then bell boy began to pound
Il on his door and shout that it was time
o to get up Jones shouted back to the
e boy to get out OF he'd break his neck,
D. but the boy replied that he had orders
l. to get Jones out of bed and he was go
ing to do it. Finally Jones got up in
u his rage and hustled down to the hotel
10 office to find out what III thunder they
Ii meant by breaking his sleep that way.
u The clerk told him there was an order
n for a call at 6 O'Clock, and that was all
n he knew about it.
h. "Well, Jonesie went back to bed, but
he didn't ret to sleep again. paid the
no bell boy enough to prevent that, and at
al 0 o'clock he came down to breakfast.
4. was down town by that time, so | rang
~ Jonesie up on the telephone. My office
or boy got him on the wire and told hin
l., to wait Just n moment, please. Well
~ Jonesie waited about five minutes ant
90 then gave the bell vicious ring. Thu
boy answered the ring and asked Jonesi
what he wanted. I want to know VIII
ny rang me up, said Jonesie. Nobod,
hc here said the boy, and he said h
US heard Jonesie swear as he rang off.
oi "Well, | gave him that telephon
oa- racket three times before he caught on
III He was pretty hot, l guess, when b
MS reached his office, but l had receptio
De for him there l had telephoned to
lot of my life insurance friends thi
Jonesie wanted to take cut policy b
on fore leaving the city i'll the afternoo
~ and advised them TO send a man arour
~ to see him There were two in the Oft
49, when he reached it, and five more can
NV in during the morning
- Zones thought he was going to do
- lot of work, too, but as matter OF ia
he spent the day explaining that
-. didn't want any life insurance or an
- thing else but IA chance to tend to
0ne own business. One of the agents final
let it out that had recommended Jon
Aeu as q good risk, and he rang me up
'nu once. I've got enough, he says. Il
willing to call it all square if you a
'ne- You've got the best of it, admit,
suualled so l told him | was willing
call it off if he would remember not
hammer on yly door hereafter when
was going by at in the morning.
pay replied that he wouldn't rap at my d.
10 again if the hotel was atire, and SO
called it off.
=! 'Jones has beaten me out of VIII
lot of sleep of late, but l guess
: even, fellows. What do you thin
!" And De Smith leaned back i'll his cf
and looked at himself admiringly in
'tled mirror across the room. = Chic
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