Show A three days edg on sulphuric acid ex representative morgan of mis tells a goo gool I 1 story about an old toper in the state of the muddy water when he first settled down to practice the town boasted of 0 a drug store run by one of his friends the store had a soda fountain and back of this with the bottles of liquids otherwise others ase medi cinal was placed a bottle of whisky in the town ton was an octogenarian I 1 no as uncle B lly ily it was uncle billy s habit to step into the drug store evera ever morning pass behind the counter and help himself to a turn tum bier bler of whisky good mornin he always said and good mornin uncle billy every body said to him that was about all that passed in a converset conver sat onal way as he made his regular morning call one morning uncle billy had made his regular visit to the habitat of the whisky bottle and was j disappear ing through the door when nhen the drug gist discovered that uncle billy had drunk out of the wrong bottle he had taken his potion from a bottle of sulphuric add acid well the druggist w m as almost panic stricken uncle billy had gotten out of sight meantime and the druggist closed the door of his shop and in fear and trembling sent for his friend the struggling young lawyer who later represented the state in congress when told the situation davisel Lavis eci that the only thins thing to do was to open the doors just aust as its il it nothing had happened and to await developments both momentarily expected of uncle billy s death three days passed and no word came finally they were about to conclude that he had dropped dead from his dose of the poison in some obscure spot where no one had yet come along to discover him when uncle billy look ing a little the worse for wear but smiling all over walked in rather ner bously the druggist was beside him self for joy glad to see you unc uncle ole bill dill he exclaimed and repeated I 1 am gainly glad to see you this morning I 1 ve got a bottle of the finest brand of whisky I 1 want you to try sorry answered uncle billy hut but the fact is the last time I 1 was here I 1 got some that was a beetle bit differ exit ert from anything I 1 ever had before but it as the finest I 1 ever tasted and I 1 think I 1 will stick to that and the old man who instead ot of being killed by the poison had got ten a three days jag on it insisted on being allowed to sample the sulphuric acid again A practical jol joke e Is a tool fools s cowardly insult |