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Show Didn't Consult the Owner. A lot of us were waiting at Syracuse ror the train from Oswego, when we noticed an old man and his son, the latter about 25 years old and built like a horse. Something seemed to be troubling the boy, and by aud by the old man slipped arouud aud put us on. He said: "Bill has got a biio on his left low about as big as a pint cup. He's had it two weeks, and I got him to town to have it lanced. Come to get here, ho ain't got the sand. Stinthiu' ortor be done, nnd I've thought of a way." "Well?" "I'd bust the bile in a York minit if I could get the chance, but Bill suspects sus-pects me. If one of you fellers would go up and tap him lie'd be the most thankful mau in the country after it was over." You will always find somo one in a crowd ready to offer himself up for anvthlng. "The man in our crowd who volunteered was traveling through the country with a lircproof paiut. He was a slim, cadaverous chap, with a wheezy voice, and he said to the fa titer: "Old man, I'll do it. I've bad biles for the last twenty-live years, and I know what it is to suffer. All of you keep quiet, nnd I'll have Bill singing hosannahs iu less'n live minutes." He stepped out of the crowd, wandered wan-dered arouud for a bit, and, as Bill became be-came interested in a railroad notice tacked on the wall, thu humanitarian approached him and dealt him a smart kick on the calf of his left leg'. A wild yell and a jump followed, nnd then tho room was tilled with hats, dust, coats, arms, legs, aud boots, nnd we pulled Bill off to find the paint man lying uu-conscious uu-conscious nnd apparently tied into fourteen knots. A doctor who was present worked over him for ten minutes min-utes beforo ho opened his eyes. Bill and tho old man had slipped out long before that, and wo had picked up two teeth, a crushed hat, a broken watch chain, a smashed watch, and some pieces of cloth, and laid them beside the victim. Ho stated at lis tor a minute min-ute or two, cleared his mouth of blood, and theu sat up to say. "Bill had a bile. I was fool enough to try to bust it for him, and Bill busted bust-ed me instead! Gentlemen, place mo on a bench, and leave mo to inyvu reflections. I want to ligger outjif I hain't a dangerous man to be allowed to run ut large!" N. Y. Sun. |