Show The Man with the BullsEye Some one asked what time it was and the fie of us pulled out our watches in concert just as one man yawning will be followed by all in the group One of the crowd had a very heavy old fashioned bullseyo watch and it attracted attention and inquiry Noit is not an heirloom he replied as he held it in his hand Left you by a dear friend No Belong to some great man No Any romance connected with it Hardly I went deliberately and bought it for a purpose and that purpose was to have a handy weapon of defense I am mortally afraid of a pistol have a horror of a knife and one cant always find a club or stone handy In brief I bought it to throw at a man should occasion ever demand de-mand Has such occasion everarisen It has About ayear ago while I was in a Chicago suburb a footpad suddenly appeared and demanded my cash I swung for him with this watch And killed him No It missed him and broke a bootblacks boot-blacks jaw and it costs me over hundred dollars to repair damages Dont criticise it as a timepiece gentlemen but as a weapon of defense Im not handy with my dukes and I cant runNew York Sun |