JUST LIKE HIM.

Dunstan Times, Issue 833, 5 April 1878, Page 3

JUST LIKE HIM.

According to a contemporary, the relater of the subjoined anecdote is said to be the “ inimitable Thatcher” who, a few years ago, was giving concerts in this colony.— The negro minstrel, Thatcher, the other evening told a ludicrous story to big audience, and put a catch pinaso into the mouth of Indianapoliana that has kept them laughing ever since. Two sailors, who had a parrot with them, went into a magician’s show in an upper rown in some foreign city. The three constituted the audience. After each feat of the magician’s, one of the sailors would remark, “That’s pre ! ty good—wonder what they’ll do next.” - Finally, one of the sailors asked permission to smoke, which the magician granted, forgetting that in the room beneath was stored an immense quantity of gunpowder. The Jack tars and the parrot continued to enjoy the show, one sailor adding the pleasure of his pipe, and the other remarking after each trick. That’s pretty good ; wonder what they’ll do next.” A spark from the smoker’s pipe chanced to drop through a crack in the floor into the powder, and something suddenly occurred. Sailors and magician, parrot and all, “ rose above party prejudice,” and were all blown everywhere, into a million fragments —all except the poll parrot. He landed, a heap of bruised flesh and burned feathers, in a potato patekthree miles away. He was utterly demoralised. It took some moments to collect himself, and when he had partially done so. he hopped limpingly upon a fence rail, and remarked—“ That’s pretty good wonder what they’ll do next."