THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS ECLIPSED.
Young Brewer, of New Castle, U.S., has, says the Danbury News, a turn for legerdemain, and the other night, while he was down at the club-room with a party of young fellows, the performances of the Davenport Brothers were discussed. Brewer offered to bet that if any one in the crowd would tie him up on a chair he would untie himself just like the Davenports. Mr Ecccles took the bet, and procuring a clothes line, he put Brewer in the president’s arm chair and tied him fast. Then Brewer said he must be alone and he told the party to go down to the drug store and wait for him, as he would be along in about five minutes. They went and waited; they waited for an hour and a half, and then, as the great knot unraveller did not appear, they concluded to go up after him. As they ascended the staircase they heard groans. A little further up they heard Brewer holding an animated conversation with himself, during which he intimated clearly that he would regard it as a personal favour if somebody would burn the Davenport Brothers at the stake. Then ho groaned again. When the party entered the room, they found that the chair had fallen forward on top of the rope anuiliilator, and, as he was still tied fast, he was lying with his face on the floor, and his back arched up so that it fitted close to the back of the chair and his nose was bleeding copiously. When they lifted him up he had a bump on the forehead as large as a Rambo apple, and a swelled nose. When they asked him why he hadn’t untied himself, he did not answer; but as soon as they had set him free, he wiped his face with his coat sleeve, and doubling up his ensanguined fist, he shook it under Mr Eccles nose and exclaimed, “You white livered, mean-spirited, chuckleheaded pirate ! If I had known you were going to put that half-hitch around the chair leg, I’d have knocked the stuffin’ out of you in the first place. ” Then he went home, and the club resumed its deliberations.
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 204, 3 February 1875, Page 3
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