| Show trying an Experiment THE EFFECT OF POURING COLD WATER DOWN A DRUNKEN MANS duns SPINE he came ill in with an interrogation point in one eye and a stick in one hand and one eye was covered with a handkerchief and one arm in a s sling ling his bearing was that of a man with a settled purpose in view 1 11 I want to see says lie he cabe the man that puts things into th this I 1 s paper wo we intimated that several of us earned a frugal livelihood in that way well weil I 1 want to see the mall man which ribs things out of the other papers the fellow who writes mostly with shears you understand stand d 1 I we explained to him that there were seasons when the most gifted among us driven to frenz frenzy y by the scarcity of ideas and events and by the clamorous de demands nua rua ads of an insatiable public in moments of emotional insanity plunged tile the glittering shears shears into our exchanges he went ott oft calmly but in a voice tremulous with suppressed feeling and indistinct through the recent loss of half a dozen or of so of his front teeth just so I 1 presume so I 1 dont know much about this business but I 1 want to see a man the man that printed that little piece ing cold water down a drunken inaus finans mans spine of his back and making him instantly sober if you please I 1 want to see that man I 1 would like to talk with him then he leaned his stick against our desk and moistened his ervice able hand and resumed his hold on the stick as though he was weighing it after studying the stick a minute he added in a somewhat louder louden tone mister I 1 came here to see that gre ere pero zere man awant I 1 want to see him bad we told him that particular man was not in just so I 1 presume so they told me before I 1 come that the man I 1 wanted to see wound nt be anywhere ill dil wait for him I 1 live up ur north and ive walked seven miles to converse with that man I 1 guess ill sit down and wait he sat down by tile the door and reflectively pounded the floor with his stick but his feelings would not allow him to keep still 1 I suppose none of you ever pour much cold water down any drunken mans back to make him hirn instantly sober perhaps none of us in the office had ever tried the experiment just so I 1 thought just as like as not you had not well mister I 1 have I 1 tried it yesterday and I 1 have come seven miles on foot to see the man that printed that piece it want much of a piece I 1 dont think but I 1 want to see the man that printed it just a few minutes you see john Smith he lives next door to my house when im to home and he gets how come you so every little period now when hes sober hes all hight right if you keep out of his way but when lies hes drunk he goes home and breaks dishes and tips over the stove and throws the hardware around and nd makes it inconvenient for his wife and sometimes he gets his gun and goes out calling on his neighbors and it aint pleasant not that I 1 want to say gay anything about smith but me and my wife dont think he ought to do so he came home drunk yesterday and broke all the kitchen windows out of his house and followed his his wife around with the carving earving earving carving knife talking about her liver ana and after a while awhile he lay down by my fence and went to sleep I 1 had been reading that little piece it want much of a piece and I 1 thought if I 1 could pour some water down his spine on his back and make him sober it would be more comfortable for his wife and a square thing to do all around so I 1 poured a bucket of spring water down john smiths spine of his back weli weil well said we nye as our visitor paused did it make him sober Our visitor took tooka a nirm firm firmer erhold hold hoid offis of his stick and replied with increased emotion just so I 1 suppose it iid ild lid did make him as sober as a judge in less time than you could say jack robinson but mister it made him mad it made him the maddest man mau I 1 ever saw and mr john smith smi h is a bigger 11 man thail than me and stouter he id is a good deal stouter bla blass blasa him I 1 never knew lie he was half so stout till yesterday and hes handy with his fists too I 1 should suppose hes the handiest man with his fists r ever sa saw raw v then he went for you did he wo we asked innocently just ajust so exactly I 1 suppose he went for me about the best ho he knew but buli bull I 1 dont hold no grudge against john smith I 1 suppose lie he aint a good man to hold a g adge against again only I 1 want to see that man av what at printed that niece piece I 1 want to see him bad I 1 feel as though it would soothe me to see that man I 1 want to show him how a drunken man acts when you pour poun our water down the spine of his eack taek back baek what I 1 come for our visitor who had poured water down the spine of a drunken mans back remained until about six in the evening and then went up street to find the man that printed that little piece |
