Eureka Reporter | 1904-08-19 | Page 4 | Casting Trouble on Another

CASTING TROUBLE ON ANOTHER gov chamberlain relates clever story to the fillipino GOT chamberlain of connecticut it a dinner in bridgeport to the phil p pine commissioners condemned the practice of extricating one s self from a trouble by casting the trouble upon another shoulders don t be like the man with the ram he said and then as no one deemed to understand the allusion be went on the man I 1 refer to stood in the middle of a lonely road holding by its massive crooked horns a huge ram will ou oblige me he said to a passing auth by holding his ram till I 1 open the gate behind met it is fastened on the inside and I 1 find I 1 must climb over it sartin stranger said the youth and he took a firm grip on the ram a enormous horns the man backed off amlung strangely thank you he said you will perhaps be surprised to hear that I 1 never saw that ram till today the brute attacked me an hour ago and we have been struggling here ever since As long as you stand in front of him holding his horns firmly he can t hurt you good by I 1 hope you 11 be as lucky as I 1 have been in getting rid of him then the man vaulted the fence and disappeared the youth clutch ing the ram s horns desperately look ed up and down the road he ad never seen a spot so desolate and lonely