The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-13
4IT0RNzY's TROUBLES
FOUGHT Bedbugs All Night Long and
!IA q Fell to WHITING Poetry on
Scene of Carnage.

trip DOWN into Nebraska, where he
was King depositions-but that has
noth.A to do with his troubles-they
accumulated in a hotel and it was
a m4rry chase all night long with
the array of bedbugs. This legal
light reached Omaha on his way home
and pHt up at one of the leading ho-
tells OF the city. He wanted a good
so he asked for a room the price of
Which was $1.50, and for hat price
he thought he ought to have some
thing pretty nice. In fact it did look
good to him, when he retired along
about II O'Clock in the evening. From
the surrounding appearances of the
room he had no reason to believe
but what everything was first class
and no thought entered his mind
of the impending battle to be waged
against the mighty foes of the sleep
er.
Having retired this legal light fell
into the land of dreams and every
thing appeared roseate and happy
until he felt something gnawing at
his flesh. 1t startled him sufficient
ly hat he decided to at once make
an Investigation. When he turned on
the electric lights he had strong sus-
PIGEONS of the attacking party. With
the covers thrown back and the sheets
displayed to the bright glare he dis
covered the enemy chasing for cover
ed unusually large for a $3.50 room.
Well, the legal light got his slipper
and commenced the attack against
the foe. The slipper worked we'll,
and it took only a few we'll directed
slaps to put the bedbugs out of exis-
tence. The legal light explored I'M
der the pillow and found a few more.
These were disposed of with the same
celebrity. Then the legal light be-
lieved that he had won the battle,
and the c%onqueror laid himself down
to rest again.
He had made a mistake however,
in not figuring on the reserve force
which any we'll regulated army of bed
bugs always has at hand. Thirty min
utes later the second brigade of bugs
responded to the alarm for the feast
that was at hand. The onslaught, the
legal light said, was even more vic
ious than the first, but he responded
to the demand for self protection and
With the aid of his mighty slipper
Fcrushed out the second battalion.
After that the bedbug relays made
a march upon their prey at intervals
from a half hour to an hour.
Along toward the early hours of
morning the legal light was driven
minate the advancing army, M he
knew not what to do. Finally he
thouaht to express his narrowed feel
ings 20 the hotel proprietor, and with
out ever being guilty of it before the
said legal light commenced to frame
up some poetry. Seated at the table,
clad in his pajamas, and the bedbugs
hunting wildly through the afore-
said bed for their evening meal, the
legal light set the muse to working
and he evolved the following poetical
effusion, which was intended to give
the fullest and freest expression to his
%feelins after putting in a night of
torture:
Bedbugs young and bedbugs old,
Bedbugs hot and bedbugs cold;
Bedbugs here and bedbugs there,
Enough to make the Angels swear.
All night long I've fought and bled,
Trying to sleep in this cursed bed;
If ever 1 live to get away,
III never again come here to stay.
am weary, and sick of the awful
sight,
OF hedbugs young and bedbugs old;
Bedbugs hot and bedbugs cold,
Bedbugs here and bedbugs there,
Bedbugs crawling everywhere.
With his mind thus relieved the
said legal light left the effusion
spread out on the stand in the room
where it would meet the curious
gaze of the chambermaid in the morn
ing, and with the further hope that
it would reach the business Office
t eventually so hat the hotel owners
would start a relentless war on the
< bedbus scattered so promiscuouly
over the otherwise we'll appointed