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Show The Watermelon Loaded with Wapa. ! There was a fnnny occurrence on Pratt street wharf Wednesday. A sailor on an oyster pungy which had been cruising about tho oyster grounds off Mogothy river landed with a dilapidated looking watermelon under his right arm. The mariner entered a nearby saloon and laid the piece of fruit dowfl. It being a little late in the season for melons a crowd gathered around to look at tho sailor's find, and several of them emphatically expressed doubts as to tho soundness of the melon. The sailor, innocent in-nocent of what was inside of it, said to prove the melon was in good shape he would plug it before carrying it to his best girl, to whom he intended to present pre-sent it. He did so, and upon extracting a piece of the rind about 100 wasps flew out and made things lively about the place. It soems that the melon was somewhat overripe, and while lying neglected in 1 its bed a family of wasps had bored a small hole in one end of it and taken up 1 their abode therein. The man who : brought it to town rushed out of the ! place with several of the insects settling ! down upon his face, and in his hurry he knocked over an Italian fruit stand, fell on a cat, which was nearly crushed to death, and nearly knocked two policemen police-men into the dock. The restaurant man put out his gas and left his dogs to fight the wasps. Baltimore Herald. |