MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 416, 29 March 1877, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Last evening some wags, at the Thame* seeking to amuse themselves at the expens* of other people, constructed a "dummy" man, and after placing it it the corner of Pollen and Sealey streets in the attitude of an inebriated individual who had resolved to make his ''lodgings on the cold, cold ground,'" disposed of themselves at convenient distances to gee the fun Alter waiting Bome minutes an elderly gentle - man was observed coming along, and when he was within about a dozen yar. ] s of the the confederates appeared filled with pity for the supposed drunken mars while one of them converting his hat into s basin rushed frantically jto the sta dpipe and copiously deluged the unfortunate dummy, saying at the same time " Give him water! Give him water quick! he'll soon come round. The elderly gentleman above referred to (as would any body else) rushed on the scene shouting- ■• Give him air," but stooping down to raise the poor fellow's head discovered his mis'ake and walked quickly away followed by the peals of laughter of the waga. Alter several others had been taken in to a greater or less degree, an official personage, irreverently called by the practical jokers " Old Mull," part of whose duty it is to take charge of inebriates, came up. probably with the intention of arresting the personage lying on the footpath-. After gazing for a second or two he laid his hands on the dummy, and discovering that he was the victim of a joke eased his injured feelings by administering a kick to the pseudo drunkard. When he turned round the wags had vanished.