The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-03-05
Man Under
1.-The Bed.
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army at ehe aye vi ou anu set up IN bach
elor apartments in town, he had several
things to pride himself about. He had
made an honorable record. No one in the
Northrop family had ever disgraced the
name.
His windows were provided with burg
lar proof locks of his own invention, and
he had a sang froid which nothing could
startle him out Of The colonel WIS we'll
satisfied with himself and the world at
Large, and those who knew him hest said
he ought to be.
At midnight one night Colonel Northrop
came home from his cub in his usual good
humor and finding 4 couple Of letters on
his table, sat down to read them before
going to bed. When finally ready to
retire, he was half asleep, and he was no
sooner between the sheets than he departed
for the land of nod Just one hour later
by the clock he opened his eyes and sat up
in bed, thing which hadn't happened
since his hoyhood days.
Some sound bad disturbed him, but just
what it was re could not tell. The idea
that any sound should thus influence him
aroused his ire, and after moment he
spraug out of bed and lighted the gas. He
meant to make tour OF his room and see
If his celebrated burglnr-proot window
locks were all right, but as lac was ready to
move ne was jumped a foot high by the
sound of snceze under his bed. 1t was
mans snee2c-a hearty, wholesome sneeZe
with a note of defiance in it, The colonel
had boosted that nothing could startle him
out of his every day placdity, but a mere
sneeze had done it, and he was furious
about it. lie dropped on his knees and
Looked under the bed. and what he saw
was man stretched at full length on the
floor.
"'Ha! You rascal, but I've got you!'
exclaimed the warTier as he made out the
form of the intruder.
81 guess not, colonel" was the cool
reply.
An army revolver, enleared by old asso-
Citations, rcposed in a drawer not far away
away, and the colonel Jumped tor it and
said:
"Now, then. YOU roll out here or III
blow your head off,
600 little slow, colonel" replied the
man under tie bed 'I'ye also got gun,
and the instant You stoop down ri send a
bullet into you.
"You--you will?'
will for sure, and guess I'll shoot at
one Of your legs as it is.
Acting on the impulse of the moment,
the colonel sprang upon his bed, and 10
seconds later he was so mad to think he
had jumped that he leaped to the floor
with the exclamation:
Come out here now or you are dead
man ~
"That's all bluff, colonel" said the
intruder. Pull on your trousers and sit
down and take things easy
The colonel obe.ved. He obeyed because
it suddenly struck him that he didn't look
dignitied without trousers and that he
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