A Practical Joker and a Practical Joke

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 14, 19 July 1890, Page 4

A Practical Joker and a Practical Joke

If a prominent physician over in the north- west hasu't got even with one practical juker theu it doesn't lie in 1 the telling The physician lives in a very modern establishment. Not only is there a special night-bell but a speaking tube connects the doorstep with the head of his bed. The piafcical joker has had fun with this. He has been coming atong about 1.30 a.m. and standing on the opposite corner and laughing uutii his sides ached thinking how funny he was and what a good time he was having. Then he would cross over and ring the night- bell' and howl up the speaking tube as if a whole regiment of people in the next block were dying. And the poor, tired doctor would rose out of his first svreet sleep and " hullo" down the tube. Then the funny man would 1 siy : " I)b6s I)r J— live here ?" * ".Haye you lived here long ?" '? For twenty years. Who are you ? ■\Vha,t'the blazes do you^pant .?" " Just want to know why you don't move. That's all. Tata!" And then the funny man bounces down into the street and scoots home, where he laughs for • half-an-hour ■straight. -. jJElerdidri't .laugh, half so much the 'other -night. The doctor was loaded for; him. He knew that laugh and that jell, and he stuck a funnel in the *übe . and poured in two quarts of <aqua fords, Stafford's indelible ink, liquid' lye, and a few chemical whiffs "of -torment. It gurgled for one second, then struck Dofunhy in the mug, -just as he opened his mouth for 'V^nomer howl. It came with a thirtyioyt fall and a ten-pound pressure to the r square inch. He swallowed a pint before he could get his mouth shut, And the impromptu hose played away all over his face and silk hat and shirt ■ : front and dress suit. It was a roof- • raiser, arid , curled him like a cockroach on a hot shovel. - l It will cost the doctor $40 for but he grin ever time he ; . 4hinks'of it. . ".••'•. . i