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Show SELECTED. The Wrong Man1 Poulticed. At a laruous and fashionable watering place, a pentl.-nian one niaht was sud denly seized in bed with an excruciating excruciat-ing pain iii the stomach, whicli m-ithnr brandy, o. 6, "r any other remedy could remove. His wile, after trvinj: a i umber of thinss in vain, and h.iv ina exhausied all her stock of 'erne-dies, 'erne-dies, le.t her husb md's bedside for the purpose of pettiny; a warm application Gmdcd on her return bv a lia'tt which she saw shining in a chamb r, and which she supposed was the one just lett, sue somy entered, ana was n .t a litt e surprised 10 find her patient apparently. ap-parently. in de p slum her. Iloevrr. thinking he might still be suffering, she gently raised the bed clothes Sce , and laid the scalding pouitice upon a naked stomach but not the stomach of her husband -which no sooner touched th body of the per-on, than he, greatly alarmed, and writhing un der the torture of the burning application, applica-tion, shouted, "'Halloo! halloo! whvt in the name of heaven and earth are you about there? Then with one spring from the bed, he made fur the door, and rushing down stairs, declared in a frenzy of excitement, that Seine o .e had poured-a shovelful of hot coals upon. him I he ladv, overcome with Xciteineiit and al f mt gave a frantic s reaiu,! whieh brought her husband hurriedly in from the next rcoin to lie' rescue. . The husband vvas so much excited, and also so much amused win the singular mistake and the ridicul 'Us position of his better hall, that he for i;ot all his pain-: but early next morn- U 1- I. -! P . i 1 I I' . -. ne. ue. nis wue. au-i L-unKs-ieii.nn parts mik n wn The pou'tieed gentleman gentle-man still retains t e handkerchief, a beautiful 1'iien fabric, with the lady's name on. it which he considers of rare value. f-.x. |