OCR Text |
Show , It Fell Flat. One day, as a Sixth avenue barber shop had but one empty chair, a man wearing a very big hat and walking with a great deal of swagger, entered, hung his hat on a peg, and then drawing a revolver he turned to the idle man and said: "I want a shave just a common shave. I want no talk. Don't ask me if I want a hair cut or a shampoo. Don't speak of the weather or politics. If you speak to me I'll shoot." He took the chair, held the revolver across his legs, and was shaved with promptness and dispatch. When he got up he returned the shooter to his hip pocket, pock-et, put on his hat, and after a broad chuckle he said to the cashier: "That's the way to keep a barber quiet. He didn't utter a word." "No, sir he couldn't." "Couldn't?" "No, sir; he's deaf and dumb." New York Sun. |