Show I LIKE a liar but there is some fellow fel-low around this tavern who suits me to well said a countrylooking fellow to the clerk at the Plankin ton House on Wednesday night about 10 oclock as he left his wife in the reception room and went to the office after the key to his room What is the matter asked the clerk Well said the guest as he took a handful of tooth picks I came here from Stillwater on my bridal tour and after supper I asked a fellow who was pickin his teetb what was going on at the theatre and he said there was a company playing Dam at one house and a I minister playing Hamlet at the I other and I went to the other I There was a ministerial looking man on the stage talking butl thought if I he was playing Hamlet it was more I like political speech than anything I I ever saw My wife and me stood I it for about an hour when I turned 3 Ito I-to a fellow next to me and asked I him when Hamlet was going to begin be-gin stabbing or have the graveyard scene or something funny and the fellow looked at me sort of mad and I said You cussed feol that is not Hamlet That is Colonel Goodwin the trades assembly candidate for Congress This is a political meeting meet-ing You can bet I hoisted my I bride out of there quick And now I am going to send her to bed and lay for the fellow that lied to me He is a full faced young man and has his coat buttoned clear up te his neck The clerk told the bridegroom he had better go to bed and he would get over it by morning and wouldnt want to whip anybody Ex |