WHAT THE SLIP OF A CORK DID.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 654, 25 July 1876, Page 3

WHAT THE SLIP OF A CORK DID.

(Danbury News.) A little boy was carrying a bottle of gingerpop down the street the other day, when suddenly the cork popped out and popped him in the north eye. He yelled so vigorously that a small crowd soon collected around him. Two carpenters at work on the next block, in their anxiety to see what the excitement was about, fell out of the second storey window on to a peanut stand beneath. Then two women fainted, one of whom suddenly disappeared in an adjacent coal cellar, ‘ Three small boys shouted “ lire,” and a man with a long ladder on his shoulder, hearing their cries, turned around suddenly, and after upsetting an applewoman amid the demoralising ruin of her wares, the end of the ladder demolished a plate-glass window, and finally settled itself on an old gentleman’s worst corn. Then a fat old lady had an eye gouged out by an umbrella, and a Dutchman and Irishman, after excitedly endeavouring to explain, to each other the cause of it, got into a tight, and rolled recklessly into the gutter. By this time seven policemen, headed by two lire engines, came upon the scene, and arrested nine innocent lookers on. This had the effect of dispersing the crowd, most of whom to this hour haven’t the remotest idea of what it was all about anyhow.