Show JOSEPH JEFFERSON p HIS TIPPLING SERVANT ANT OSEPH JEFFERSON once had In JOSEPH his bIs employ a plausible sort of roan man roana a bait bf valet half hal factotum grossly Incompetent and unsatisfactory whom he desired to set get rid or of It was a cert certainty the man drank Wine from the cellar would disappear and the supply In the de decanters cantors canters Would would disappear gradually but ther never was any ocular proof that the servant was responsible And Yr Mr Jefferson in telling the story to a friend there I was What could I 1 do However he be continued one day as I was sitting in m my library who should I see but William reeling up the th walk drunk as a lord My had come after ma many y years 1 i waited wafted rex fat hIm 1 would tell him bow drunk h was He would deny It of course He wo woud insist he was sober But I should have the Calm ot of right on my side and my a cupe for sending him away would be sufficient Su So when hen William a I gazed at him with all the severity I could summon and said 4 William yoU are ara drunk He returned my look with perfect tin Im Mr Jefferson I am more than am very drunk sir And continued Mr Jefferson etterson wIll you tell teU me what I 1 could do Ho He took the wind out my sails lie He proved himself a perfectly truthful man ma And you finally got rId rd ot of him asked the man to whom the story wax was told Ju then than some one came ame in to light the e lumps lamps and the n looked at hint bim quIzzing Jy y NO lie Answered with a smile t w ca I t e a man ma tOr could 11 |