A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1813, 28 May 1874, Page 4

A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

Mtsrriweather lives in a row of houses which, as is generally the case in Philadelphia, are uniform. He thought the other night he would scare Mrs Merriweather while she was in bed, so he rose, and dressed in his night shirt, went upon the roof while she slept. Be tied a nail to apiece of string, lay dovnonthe cornice, leaned over and tapped the bedroom windpw with the nail. Mrs Merriweather meanwhile was not asleep, but she f«.l!owed him up, shut the trap-door in the loft, and went back to bed. Merriweather; concluded to give it up and turn in, but, to his dismay, the trap wouldn't open. To make matters worse, a policeman, who had f een watching him, felt certain he was a burglar, and beyan practising at. him with a revolver. The manner in which that old man dodged about chimneys, clothed in that simple rope of white, would have done credit to a performer on the flying trapeze. At last he came on his trap door, and finding that it had been opened, he went down. On entering his bedroom he found a man turning down the gas. As soon as he shouted "Thieves !" the man also shouted, and the woman in the room gave a wild and awful yell. Then the man turned up the gas and seized a pistol, and, as Merriweather dashed down stairs, he perceived that he had got into the wrong house. /As he flew to the parlour and hid under the' Bof a, the other man woke the whole neighbourhood with a rattle, and in ten minutes six policemen came in, and after a search, dragged Merriweather out and marched him to the station-house. When he came out in the morning he walked home in a pair of the turnkey's pants, and began to eat his breakfast with out asking a blessing, and when Mrs Merriweather inquired if his muttered ejaculations of " Fool !" and " Idiot !" referred to her, he sai<J she might wear them if they fitted her. He will probably not play any fresh practical jokes on Mrs Merriweather again soon.