FUN WITH A DEAF AND DUMB MAN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4413, 24 February 1883, Page 4

FUN WITH A DEAF AND DUMB MAN.

Quietly entering a barber's shop, the stranger removed his hat and coat, and taking a card from his pocket, wrote on it: " I want to be shared." A.jbarber stepped forward, read the card, and, pointing to a chair, said to' his brother artists: "Deaf as a brass kpttle and dumb-as an oyster." ■ The man straightened himself out in the cbair,« when his manipulator, began lathering his, face. '•■-.■' " This deaf cuss has a cheek like a stone wall," he paid, when^a general laugh f'ol-. lowed.. ; " Stick a pin in him and see if lie is entirely dumb," said another. s The victim remaining undisturbed, the follow ing, shots .were fired at him by the delighted tonsorial artists : "He needs vl shampoo ; his head is dirtier-than'a. cesspool." " ShaTe,.him,with a stool leg.:- : c!on'fc spoU your razor bn'triat stubble," Gracious, what a breath ! It smells like a Dutch band of music." "He ought to rent that nose for a locomotive'headlight," &c. While all these complimentary allusions were flying about him, the operation of shaving was finished, and the man arose, put on his coat, and then turning (o the astonished barber, said : "How much for the shave and complimeD ts?"