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Show 80ME OF HIS OWN MEDICINE. Irate Citizen Found Ho Had to Deal with Worthy Adversary. An irate citizen dashed up tho toop, nearly pulled tho old-fashioned bell out of the socket, stormed till tho master of the house appearod, and thus saluted him: "Sir, I'm going to thrash that boy," shuklng his linger In tho direction of a youngster of some 12 years. "It is outrageous that you should allow him to bo so mean and contemptlhlo. 1 don't suppose you over wh. ped him In tur llfo!" "I certainly novur did," replied tlio master of the house nipekly; "I do not believe in corporal punishment." "Well, I do, and I'm going to tan that young scoundrel's hide. If he had a licking a week he wouldn't be so great n nulrnnce to your neighbors. I'm a patient man, but he's too much for mo. I wish you would understand that I'm going to tturaak him I" "My friend, 1 cannot help what you do. The law apparently Is in your hands. If you Insist upon It, go ahead and lick him." The boy was i"'tlng an awful trouncing troun-cing when a strange man appeared on tho scene with Are In his eye. He "lit Into" the irato citizen and nearly walloped wal-loped the hldo oil him. When the later lat-er could escape he appealed to the master of the house, saying in gasps: "Didn't you say I could Mick that boy of yours? Who was that fellow fel-low who attacked me?" "Oh, I have no boy. That wus the boy's father." |
