A WATERSPOUT.
The 4 Detroit Free Press ’ says :— 41 There was something ma’icima in the smile of a Michigan avenue saloon-keeper as he dragged 50ft of penstock hose out on the walk, turned on a full head of water, and remarked to a crowd of eight or ten b-.yj that th. y could wash the walk. He went in and shut the door, and every boy in thee owd jumped for the nozzle. An old gent going by had his plug hat knocked into the street, and when ha turned to remonstrate the stream hit him on the tye, down behind the collar, and on the back, and he galloped into a grocery and wildly i q aired for a tlireo-baricib d shot gnu and a hand grenade. Each boy declared that he was going to hold that nozzle, and each one tried to. Tho stream hit the windows, then the walk, then a hitching pest, and more than once it slid down a boy’s hack or into his boot leg. A woman ca ue out of a store just in lime to get a dash under th* chin, and she fell over a box and shouted mu der in clarion tom a. A girl came along with a baby cart, and as she was chewing away at a quid of gum and gaping across the street the water stiu k the baby in his little stomach ard p,ur< d down over his toes like a babbling biook to tbe sea. The struggloamong the boys libel the stream to the window again, and the girl and baby gob away. A j small boy ran aeio s tho street to sco what the matter was, and he went back howling : his hair dripping and his ears tilled full. A j barber went out to 3->y to the boyi that he’d have ’em lake i up, and the water raked up
and down him filled up Im pocket, and wilted bis shirt besom, and he jumped back i ito his door and said he’d like to be Chi d of the Poiice of Detroit for about six seconds, he would. Some of the boys dropped out, discouraged ot the thought of what the “old man” would say when they got home, but five or six held out until they had wet up a sack of coffee, a barrel of sugar, “plunked ” a small girl on the back, and wos down a drag clerk ; and then the saloonkeeper came out and took the nozzle, and exclaimed, “ Poya ! poya ! if you don’t stop this peesness I’ll call for der parleeco on this peat 1”
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Evening Star, Issue 3871, 21 July 1875, Page 3
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440A WATERSPOUT. Evening Star, Issue 3871, 21 July 1875, Page 3
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