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Show How Two Dorer Girls Paid a Bet. j A couple of Dover'B leading belles i created a sensation in this staid old eapi-1 tai tlie other evening by trundling a well j known butcher of sporting proclivities; down the entire length of the principal 1 thoroughfare in a wheelbarrow. The , young ladies were talking one day about j some of tlvo peculiar bets that had been made on the baseball ground that afternoon, after-noon, when the butcher cm no along and and joined in the conversation. After insinuating that a lady never paid her wagers if she lost, he but that there was a letter awaiting him at the potitofliee, stipulating tliat If there was the ladies were to convey him to the depot, five blocks away, in a grocer's ! wheelbarrow, while if ho lost he was to , treat to ioe cream. The young ladies ac-; cepted tho bet and tho trio visited the' postotrice. The letter waa there. It took the girls just about five minutes to borrow bor-row the shabbiest looking wheelbarrow In town, and m a trice they had it before I the postoftlee, whero by this time quite a crowd had assembled. I The butcher tried hard to beg off, but 1 willing hands dumped him in the wheel-' barrow, and one of the maidens seized the handles. Off they went at a rapid 1 gait without regard to the rider's bodily 1 comfort Hundreds of persons gathered . to see the ahow, but it was the butcher and not tho girls who felt out of place.1 Before they had gone a square he had offered to buy them everything from a quart of ice cream to a silk dreas apieco ' 1 if they would let up. Never had such an Interesting proooe- : ion paraded Dover's stroeu. The girls trundled the wheelbarrow right up to the depot doors, and there. In the pre- enceof an admiring crowd, they dumpvd their Irate and half dead victim on tlie sidewalk. Dover (Del) Cor. Philadelphia Philadel-phia Beoord. |