SHARING THE RISK.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3230, 26 June 1879, Page 3

SHARING THE RISK.

Mr Pinto, wliq was on a drumming expedition in\ Maine,; had neglected to fill hip willow flask before leaving civilisation, and, on the hc^he-streteh from Banger to Boston, he has suffered from the peculiar thirst which. tlasetß. bibulous travellers in; the Dirigo'St/ie. lie had tried at every way-station /to procure a drink, and' had signally failed. At length he drew -near | New- Hanypshirei and at the first place where the/train, stopped long enough to water typ" he got off to refresh himself with ./a different fluid, if possible. " Say,/ ray friend,'" whispered 1 he, to an oifiifcial at the depot, '" where can I go to procure; a drop of something' stimuJatiE^j ? My throat ia as dry asacknepoi'e." "There" is no place round here," w/Ss the reply, " except that restaurant — Mid the liquor there is so bad that a man '"ivho drinks it will die in five minutes thereafter." As there was no other plan he went for it, for an admouition is lost, on a thirsty man. There was ; a dark-'-"coioared gentleman sawing wood by the door. "I say, Sam," said the bibulant. ."]?ree an' easy dat," muttered the 'Dnrkey. "My name isn't Sam, sah, my name's Dan'l." •'Sure enough," said „..,fhe> stranger; "but you're tanned: so Quince ,J, saw you that I didn't know you. Do you ever drink?" "Yes, massa," with a grin from ear to ear. "Then come right in here." Ordering; j loihoitwhigky,•; Mr : Pinto poured out half a tumblerful for his 1 dark friend, and bade him drink it, with " Saryice to» you, sah," looking happy after" the potatjon. Then heispoured but for himself, pausing with every few drops,. and looking earnestly in the' shining face before him. This at last attracted <the proprietor's attention. '^Whydqyqu do that?'' he asked. " Because,' 1 said.Ppto, finishing the pouring''but ''and holding ,the glasa in his hand, " a mail,, put v there told me that if. a, body drank I anything here 1 he Would be dead i in j five minutes. It is now, "r-^lqoking.^at■ ,his watoh~"two i, and a half since this chap dfranirhis^'att'd 1 am willing to share the risk." He poured down Ihis drink, paid the saloon-keeper, gave Dan'l/ i* the dime that came back in change, and caught'fche^caT jtistas it began to move' out of the depot.—American Paper... i