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Show AX ADVENTFRF. IV WASHING. TOM CITY. Don Piatt says the latest story that ia going the rounds ia Washington is told of one of the second-joints, as the secretaries were called to distinguish them from the high-joints. This was n elegant youth, rather slender and tall, whose talk began and ended in one short sentence, which said, "Aw, I beg y'r pardon, "which, drawled out, has a very pleasing result, and is being generally imitated by our free-born youths of America about Washington. It seems that this sprig of English nobility was invited to pass some days at the country house of a wealthy American, ami late at night, before retiring, concluded to take "a bath, you know," and so directed by a servant ser-vant he found his way to the bathroom, bath-room, and turning on the warm water was soon enjoying at full length the delicious sense of an entire relaxation of his aristocratic person and repose of his aristocratic intellect. Unfortunately the daughter of the house also concluded to take a dip in the tub, and not knowing what their illustriousjguest had done to hiaeh'', undressed iu her room, ran hurriedly along the hall for fear of meeting some one, and darting into the bath room closed and locked the door. What was her consternation to see a head raise languidly from the tub, and a voice exclaim: "Aw, I beg pawdon." She screamed a scream- I indulge in no exaggeration when I say that girl screamed a scream of the first magnitude; and then she screamed another an-other scream as in her confusion she turned the key in the wrong direction, and so did not open the door. Between each scream the languid voice exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Ah, I beg pawdon." After sixteen screams, any one of which would have rivaled a locomotive's, locomo-tive's, she succeeded in opening the door, and fell fainting in the arms of her frightened papa. So soon as pater familias could relieve himself of his nude daughter, he stuck his paternal pater-nal head into the bath-room, and wanted to know what in h 1 was the matter. All he could get in reply was: "Aw, I beg pawdon." |