CAPTURING A COCKTAIL.
" A relic of old decency," in the form of a dilapidated specimen of humanity, with a variocolored nose, walked 1 into a Montgomery street saloon last evening and jauntily waltzed overto the lunch counter," remarking' to the oarkeeper en 'Mix meja stiff cocktail please," a!nd proceeded' to lop off a section of corned beef as largo as a basalt block. The cocktail' being .ready, the customer leisurely "swallowed it, and takiog f the measure.ofthe cocktail-dispenser though the bottom' of the glass, asked : '' Has Goosey been round here to-night ? " BK. replied llini he had not the h6n6r-of-that ' individual's acquaintance.*' - > ** W hat! Don't kaow Goosey? 4 Why,*ihe Jbangs about here every night. You must know him. He walks in this vrar." He walked towards the door, imitating the waddle of j a goose, and having gained the entrance Iha vanished into- sparia. When, the bar* keeper recovered from the) paralytic sfroke I of astonishment he prescribed for himself-" three fingers of" Old Bluegrass," charged two drinks on a customer's card; and fell tomoraliaing^on the advisability, of mounting a small howitzer somewhere within range of the front door. <
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3188, 8 May 1879, Page 1
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188CAPTURING A COCKTAIL. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3188, 8 May 1879, Page 1
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