The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-23
MIR. BIBB- TAKES SOME PUNCH.
And on the Way Home Several Cats
Joined in the Procession.

Joined in the Procession.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The gentleman who comes in late said It
was a most remarkable thing. In broad
daylight you seldom noticed a cat, but at
night they roamed the streets in purring
or yowling hordes, and your steps were
sometimes impeded-actually impeded-by
feline numbers. He was impressed with
this on Wednesday night on returning
from jenkins. jenkins daughter, the
pretty one who did things in elocution.
was married that night, and Jenkins had
some of his old friends up TO the reception
and made them stay after everybody else
had gone home. Then jenkins brewed
some punch, or rather he brewed two
kinds of punch. Both were good-so good
that a controversy arose as TO which was
the better.
Brown said the punch in the glass bowl
was better but Morris coniended the
punch in the blue china bowl laid way
over it, Sides We're taken. and it was IS
exciting as a college debate. First the
punch in the glass bowl was drunk, and
its merits and shortcomings were discuss
ed. Then the punch in the blue china bowl
was sampled, and its claims to superiority
were supported or denied. But the more
they drank and sampled the more hopeless
grew the dispute, which never would nave
been settled, probably, had not a brilliant
idea struck Jenkins. He suggested pour
ing both punches into one, which was done,
and the result fairly startled them, II was
that delicious
There never was such a wonderful
punch as the combination made. 1t was
nectar. The gentleman who comes in late
said so to Spinkins, who had been his most
aggressive opponent In the argument, and
Spiffkins Immediately agreed with him
AS for Morgan, who Is an authority on
punches. he cried because his grand
father who died in IA, and who had
brought Morgan up to know good punch,
was not present 10 drink some.
Jenkins said he could even beat that.
and he had the bottles up ana made an
other when all the combination punch was
gone. To the surprise of everybody IL
really was superior to the combina ton
punch, and Jenkins was so delighted 81
the encomiums bestowed on him that
everybody felt happy to witness Jenkins
state of triumph and Joy. Brown said he
never was so happy In his life; ana
strange to say, the gentleman who comes
In late said the very same thing at the
very same time. Morris said to see Jen-
kins SO happy made him feel as If he
nam care IN the world. SpinkinS said
II he had an enemy-and he didn't know
whether he had or not-he forgave him,
for he loved everybody and wanted to 60
to heaven, and Timmins paid Osbourne
the $40 he owed him on the election
After that, the punch being gone, they
started TO go home, but jenkins said that
they must take parting glass Of kum-
mel. which was a famous topper for
punch, and they did. All were so absorb
ed in praising jenkins for his notable sue
cess with the punch that they forgot about
the first round of kummel and took an
other. thinking that was the first. Nor
gan discovered that IL wasn't but II was
such good joke that jenkins made them
take the third, because the Joke was on
him, he said.
The gentleman who comes in late glanc-
ed at the clock as he came downstairs.
but somehow or other 1t was always more
difficult to tell time at night than 1t was
In daytime, and he was not certain wheth-
err the hands stood at 1115 or 2:55. Still
the time had really nothing to do with
his meeting a horde Of cats as he walked
home from Jenkins. He wasn't thinking
OF cats at all when he left Jenkins, but
was trying to recollect a joke Morgan
had told about his maiden aunt red UNI