CAPTURING A COCKTAIL.
" A relic of old decency," in the form of a dilapidated specimen of humanity, with a varicolored nose, walked into a Montgomery - street saloon last evening and jauntily waltzed over to the lunch counter, remarking to. the barkeeper en passant. "Mix me a stiff cocktail, please/ and proceeded to lop off a section of corned beef 'as large as a basalt block. The cocktail being ready, the customer leisurely swallowed it, and taking the measure of the cocktail - dispenser throughfthe bottom of the glass, asked : "Has Goosey been round here to-night?"
B K. replied that he had not the honor of that individual's acquaintance. "What! Don't know Goosey ? Why, he hangs round here every night. You must know him. He walks in this way." He walked towards the door, imitating fche waddle of a goose, and having gained the entrance he vanished into space. "When the barkeeper recovered from the paralytic stroke of astonishment, he prescribed for himself threefingers of « Old Bluegrass," charged two drinks on a customer's card, and fell to moralising on the advisability of mounting a small howitzer somewhere within range of the front door.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 112, 12 May 1879, Page 4
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