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Show Misplaced Confidence. He Is a bachelor and a butcher and popular with the fair sex, but bald as a last year's egg-and therein lies a talc, a tale of woe. Two of the. gentlest of the gentle sex, with sympathetic licaits which grew to the size of pumpkins at their friend's icpea tod stories of punishment punish-ment executed by files and mosquitoes that sought to make a toboggan slide of his hairless scalp, suggested a remedy rem-edy that would foicver rid him of the pests and at the same time grow a lilr-sult lilr-sult adornment equal to anything Sampson sported befoic Delilah got in her work with 'the wi Inkle-trim mers. Alack, and alas for the faith reposed re-posed in innocent blue eyes and that portion of humanity which feeds on chewing gum. The aforesaid 11. and 11. made an application of the suggested sug-gested lemedy, which had been provided, pro-vided, then made another and two more. The first two sent the blood tingling through our hero's veins In such a icjuvenating way that he dreamed of buying all of Rlter's combs and taking a lay-off Just to. caress the golden locks that he would possess on the day after tomorrow. At the third application the It. and IS. had his doubts about the matter, and before the fourth application had time to soak In, giabbed himself by the bosom of his trousers and made a bee-line for the djdrant, and In passing pass-ing pirssed tho button for the the department. de-partment. When last seen, the U. and II. was standing patiently while his partner directed a stream of 2:10 pounds pressure pres-sure upon tho'bald upper stoiy, which was so hot that tho water evaporated into steam before It had time to How down his neck. A chemical analysis of the hair rest re-st 01 er revealed the fact that some bovine had been robbed of her ointment oint-ment for scratches. And "now he's sorry tliatlic spoke." |
