Show j A fearful bump 1 thoy they had a lecture lecture on phrenology in it a short time ago fram from a travelling velling tra sor or of that eci science ence euce and part of or it was quite entertaining hb he had bad on theAs the stand klaud i tand taud hd several plaster heads mapped out in town lots and af after ter he explained what they meant he invited persona persons in the audience to come up tip and let him feel their bumps and explain their characters several be lilt hit it pretty accurately arid azid excited a considerable amount of applause but after a while old D stepped up for examination he ifrah isan absentminded absent minded man mail and he wears a wig while dressing himself sen before coming td the lecture ho he lad laa bad had placed his wig on the bureau and accidentally tossed his plug of tobacco into it when he put the wig on it was just like him not to notice tho the plug and so when he mounted the platform ho he had bad a lump just over his bump bati veness as big as half halt a bens hens egg egge the professor fingered about awhile over D s head and then said we bave bavo here a somewhat remarkable skull shull the perceptive faculties strongly developed reflective faculties quite good ideality large reverence eo so great as to be unusual und and benevolence very prominent lis ils small and tho subject therefore is a man of candor and frankness he communicates muni cates what he knows freely we have also said the professor still plowing his fingers through D acquisitiveness not large the subject is not a grasping avaricious man ho gives liberally he bo he ie he why it cant be yes why what in the munificent moses the most awful development of combativeness I 1 ever heard of are you a prize fighter eh prize fighter exclaimed D why what do you mean never been a soldier or a pirate or anything like that you certainly must be craz crazy Y 11 aint you fond of going into scrimmages and rows and harming people acl certainly erta not well sir then your untrue to your nature the way your heads built qualifies you I 1 should say in a special manner as a knocker down and dragger out if you want to fulfill your mission you will devote the remainder of your ilfe life to battering battening up your fellow ma man n and keeping yourself in one interminable and eternal muss youve got the aw fullest fighting bump that ever decorated a human skull its phenomena phenomenal you take for your head when you die dle gentlemen this man is liable at ut any moment to commence raging around this community like a wildcat wild cat banging you witha with a club or anything that comes cornea handy it safe for him to be at large then D put his hand hund up to feel the bumph ridlie noticed the ac dof he 1 pulled pu led off his wigand there was the plug just sticking behind his left eft oan oar r then the professor looking at it a moment in confusion ald said aid ladies and gentlemen we will now the lecture is that is I 1 have no more boy turn out those lights audience laughed and D put on his wig and the professor 9 or started to catch the late train the science of phrenology is not as popular in norristown as it was and D still remain remains 4 peaceable philadelphia bull buil tn tim |