| Show GOT EVEN WITH tormentors TOR MENTORS how a practical joker turned the tables on a bevy of pretty girls A son san francisco gentleman raine came to this city a short time since and with lils his wife quartered at a fashionable boardinghouse boarding house they were a very jolly couple and soon made friends with all the inmates among whom were a number of young ladies the gentleman was as one of they the young oung ladies said mi am awful tease and took great delight in playing all sorts of harmless jokes on the young ladies telling the that marriage was a failure and another in other ways endeavoring to keep them out of the tolls toils of matrimony and in short keeping up an everlasting eier lasting joshing the young ladies determined to get even on him when he went mray away on the steamer so all went down to see him and his wife off N T isow ow although he had bad been bee n married to his second wife some two years they were a fine looking couple and might easily be token taken for t tr newly wedded pair to give all the people on the steamer the idea that they were just married and starting outon out on their bridal tour was the way the yo young ung ladies planned to get even they procured a lot of rice and poured it in every crevice about the baggage of the couple ani and in their pockets and among am on 9 their wraps so that rice ric dropped f from rom them at every step one of the young ladies who was acquainted quain ted with the officers officer of the steamer e r explained the situation to them and secured their aid in carrying out the plot and also a promise that the delusion should be kept up all the way to san francisco they then scattered rice about the stateroom of the bride and groom and all over the deck in front and when the go ashore gong sounded they just emptied their vials of rice on the unfortunates and started 1 ashore shore the man was paralyzed for a moment but catching on he be said well if this is a bridal party it is my duty to kiss hiss all thes the ladles ladies and he went for tile bliem in then and alere there and he kissed them right and left not hap ban hazard bazard but squarely on the mouth every time with resounding smacks which could he be heard clear up on the wharf such an uproar had not been heard at the steamer doel dock since since the days the blazt to be saluted had escaped aped half way down the gangway gam ga gway but the bridegroom rushed down lifter her nearly knocking overboard the last man who was just coming up and he kissed hissed her the hardest of all they sailed away with the fair young bride and the young ladies M returned turn ed to their boardinghouse and aad have ever since been trying to decide who the jole joke was on portland oregonian oregonians Ore gonian |
