The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-02

you know very well that Dr-would- mt let them out and about if they were dangerous2S
 That's right enough, SUIT, but wait till tell you what happened to me. and maybe you won't wonder why I'd be nervous. This very day three years ago heaven between us and harm, l druy another jintleman-it might be yourself-up to see the doctor.
 Wait for me- says he jumpin' off the sate before we got to the door an running up the steps, I won't be more than half an hour
 T pulled up an settled the nosebag on the mare. the way she'd be aitin' a bit, and then I sot up fair and aisy on the sate. There was some madmin' scratchin' the walks wid rakes, an diggin' here an there, but I never took much notice. of 'em till all of sudden they began to gether up into one clump an to chatter an they threw down the spades an rakes an shovels an had regular setto wid fists-one man strikin' another that was the nearest to him an so they kept peggin' away.
 'Begor, all at once. after a divil of a big scrimmage between 'em, they scat tereds just while you'd be sayin' Jack Robinson. lavin' one hairy ovid fellow that forgot himself an seemed botherd 8 bit after getting struck on the side of his head. We'll you honor. I'm telling mo lie when I say could see his eyes shinin' in the distance like you'd see the windeys on a lonesome house about sum- |set.
 But, faith, he wasn't long coming round, and when he did he let a shout out of him and made straight for me at top. With that, spinnin' myself |rourd on the sate, took jump right off the car and got landed on the other Iside safe and sound.
 ''Thinkin' to see what he'd be at, looked round cautiously. but faith he |gev me no time for contemplation, promise you. The heart rig up in me mouth when I see him full tilt skirt round after me. gev myself up for lost.
 Away with me them, round and |round the mare and car at top speed land he after me, puffin' and blowin' and shoutin'-the Lord save us-like a grampus, and me short -winded after the influenza.
 Well, SUIT, to make a long story lshort. he was gatin' on me every min nit. His big fist was just within foot loe me, when made a last dive for a |short cut under the mares belly, think in I'd make straight for the hall door. The right foot went clane from under me, and down I made head foremost, dead bate. With that he hit me kick that broke two of my ribs. " I'm kilt says I.
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 " What matter? says he, that's tig lall the trouble you gave me.
 Away with him then, as hard as he could lay leg to ground, and never set eyes on him from that day to this-the devil fly with him! When the doctor came out he brought me to the hospital, and I wasn't the better of the kick and the fright for over three months. That's the whole story, surr.'' What did the fellow mean by shout ling 'tig?' " I inquired. when he had. re- covered himself bit.
 ..Mame by it, Is it? Shure it's a game tha boys do be always playin' at school. Wan boy tips the nearest to him, says 'tig and the man that sets tig i has to pass 1t on to another, and that's what the lunatics were at when though they were fighting. The last fellow that got 'tig' was the hairy ovid man and when his companions made off he made for the car and never stopped til he 'tigged me.
 1T tell you what, surr, it was the savagest game that ever played before or since. It's anshint and common enough. too. I often see flies playin' i fyin about under the ceiling when there's nothing for'em to ait and nothir 1 to do.'
 The remark was apt too, had ofter seen flies play .'tig'' without specially noticing the fact, and since Darby brought the matter under my notice have watched them with added interest from my easy chair vigorously playing the game.
 "Tig'' has now for me a permanent interest.
 Well, Darby said, when we ar rived at the lodge gate, perhaps under the circumstances you'd rather net SC Iup.''
 If it's all the same to your honor he replied, touching his hat, ''Td rather Inot."-J. F. Fuller in Illustrated Bits.
 
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