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Show . , A Saratoga Blunder. A young, short-sighted Boston literary man arrived in Saratoga, the4 other day. After adjusting his one-barreled English eyeglass he registered his name and wa3 assigned room 224 at the States, and his baggage was sent up. Then the Boston philosopher walked straight out into the country to look for specimens of bugs and curious geological fossils. At night the near-sighted Boston young man came back. He adjusted his eyeglass eye-glass and stumbled upstairs to his room, but he accidentally got into the wrong room. The room he entered was 222, which was occupied by two, lovely young girls from Philadelphia. The young ladies were both in the bathroom. On their return to their room it being shady and dark, they didn't notice the young man who lay sprawled on the bed. So they threw off their clothes down to' a loose garment with low neck and no sleeves, and went on making'theirtoiletsl After they had washed and powdered their faces andput on pink and blue silk stockings to match their dresses, one said : "O, Julia, I am going to try a red rose leaf on my cheeks, to-night. Now, don't let me put on too much and make a guy of myself." As she said this she caught a glimpse of the young man sprawled out on the bed. Then there was bedlam. "O ! a man ! O ! O ! O ! !" thev shouted. "He'll kill us! O! murder!"" , This awoke young Boston who screamed : "What you doin' in myrbom? Go 'way ! Go, 'way !'' "It's our room I" screamed the young ladies, crouching into a corner. "It's mine! oh, go out!" he shouted j back; "it's 224." "No, it's 222 ; iiin't you ashamed ?" returned re-turned the girls. This brought the near-sighted Bos-tonian Bos-tonian to his senses, and he made haste to leave. As he went into the hall the whole house seemed to be aroused. "It's a mistake," he said to the waiters, detectives, and reporters ; "it's all a mistake. mis-take. I mistook the room just my stupidity stup-idity and ." "Name!" exclaimed the Bostonian; "name! Darn my name! Just put it down as Fool plain Darn Fool." UK Perkins' Letter. |