A PLAYFUL LADY.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 143, 3 July 1880, Page 3

A PLAYFUL LADY.

Miss P.-rrv, of flradford, U.S., is a young lii.lv" gifted with mi exuberant llf UlllHWlr. Till! other 'lllV s!.culled upon a licensed victuall-rat Jam l -: town, lint f:ir from Brndforl, and presented .1 pistol at his lioitd wiili Hi" \vn-;-pisli remark thnt unless h- forthwith handed over tn her tlio contents of Ilia till slii' would there itiul tlii'ii blow his lirains out. Kniling t'i apprehend the subtil! humour nf her ward-; and bearing, tin- dull-witted barkeeper ottered a tenilollar bill with trembling hand. "Thai is nut enough," observed the jesting girl ; " besides, I want two bottles of whisky." Obedient to her'behest, he milled two Husks from a bottle rack labelled " Three Dollars a GrilUnn." and tendered them, but in vain. "Give me the host jon have," exclaimed Miss Perry, in tones nf well-simulated indignation, still levelling her pistol lit the pallid brow of (In tenor-stricken publican, who hastily took down two more bottles from a rack labelled "Six Dollars a Gallon." "Put them down by the door," ejacula'ed this much too merry maiden, "and then give mo all the cash you have got in your store!" As the' till contained several hundred dollars, the bar-keeper adopted a desperate resolve, and, Minrched at the pistol, which exploded, Bending a bullet whizzing past his enr. lie managed, however, to seize Miss Perry's arm; but before he could wrest her weapon from her, his unmannerly roughness was rebuked by a second shot, which, grazed bis side. Thereupon he closed with his fair antagonist, threw her down on thetloor.nndhcld her until assistnueecamc. Despite her positive assurance that " it was only a joke," the playful damsel was conveyed to prison, soon to be bailed out liy her papa, a wealthy speculator in " ile "of Bradford. "Will it be believed that she is nrraigned for trial at thocoining sessions upon thn charge of robbery nlid assault with homicidal intent ? Such U nevertheless,, the. ww- Ohvionslv, the Bradford magistrates arc incapable of sympathising with pure girlish fun.