A DANBURY STREET SCENE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2166, 13 December 1875, Page 4

A DANBURY STREET SCENE.

Mr Culver, on Nelson street, got out His hose to sprinkle the road in, front of the house Friday evening. He dragged the hose to the front and put the nozzle on the fence, and then hastened down to the cellar to turn the water on. Just as he disappeared in the door an elderly couple, accompanied by a young lady, appeared round the corner and approached the premises of Mr Culver. The gentleman was swinging a gold-headed cane and discoursing on the heauty of the evening and the trimness of the cottages they were passing. " Now a that place," observed the old gentleman, stopping exactly opposite the nozzle, which none of the party observed, and pointing at Mr Culver's pretty house, "is a place which just suits my eye. It is not too large or too small. It has the requisite amount of room inside and outside, and the yard is a model of—" And just at that unhappy instant the water was turned by the unconscious Mr Culver, and the old gentleman's beaming face being in exact range of the dreadful nozzle, the stream struck him with such blinding force as to knock him completely off the walk, and he went over backwards into the street, bareheaded, swinging his cane in the air, and vehemently sputtering, "Ooh, Kawwish, boo, dosh, wicherish, goo-woo, thunder and lightening! M-u-r-d-e-r !" They got him on his feet and his hat on wrong, and tried to direct his attention to the scenery, but he wasn't to be diverted. He shook his fist at Mr Culver and called him a scoundrel, and declared he would have satisfaction if it took every penny he owned. And .then he knocked his hat over his eyes and stalked moodily away. —Danbury News.