A HEAD ON HIM.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4420, 5 March 1883, Page 2

A HEAD ON HIM.

~ '■ At 't^e/^recent^Sreteran's^^aniGn^ißL^:;;: Chicago: y^as TheojSß. Djtiris.:'tlieArtisVof?;<^ "^^er's:|fee^, Tjfk6 • waV ill: tb^^;-; the war.'! TherVwa^ one. q£th£jCriieal?b : yeteraps who sometimes; took*Jfn^ a littte *■ too muqh ,wet stuff, and who. w^s a-. little ; excitaole wnen . full. 'The"TisitiDg, the v music, the marchingj.the.cheeriug and ex- •* citement of the reunion had made him*. feel quite excited, and he wantedrto, -fight his battles over again,.but the boys kept him quiet, and finally got him 1 to hed, aijA boob he slept like a log. The boys were in the room telling stories, when some one called attention to the sleeping comrade, and io ?i second aa f idea TO<jojiiTrd to Davis, the artist. He* went to Bis*room and got his water-color brushes, and some court;-plaster.' J'Pretty soon the artist was at work with his soft camel's hair brushes. He first painted two black eyes, then be painted a: swelling on one cheek, and on the forehead he painted what looked as though a sledge-hammer had smashed in the 5 skull,: and "He ft the brain oozing out. Then the artist took some strips of court-plasterV and stuck one' across the painted" : broken?: nose, another across the mouth-sealing both lips, [' and the boys stood back to look at the stricken man, and wait fbr the courtplaster to dry.; The boys gota strange veteran from Oshkosh to personate a doctor. After alitte the sleeper began to wake up, and one of his friends took a seat by his bed side, took hold of his pulse, and as he opened-His eyes the the friend said: " Now don't exert yourself, and don-t try to'talk...^l}h:e;dQ|stor says you will be all right if yoli remain quiet." The victim of the joke opened his eyes, and was going to ask what was the matter, when-he found his mouth held together by court-plaster, and his voice sounded like that of a man with a harfclip asking some one to go-to; the> devil. By this time one of the jokers swas having trouble to keep from laughing, so he put a handkerchief to his face, sobbed and said: "My God, boys, thisis horrible,! ". At this point the Oshkosh villaiin said, hopefully: " Don't be discouraged, my boy ; we will pull you through if you do not get excited. I have cured worse cases." Then he took a pair of scissors and cut the court plaster that held lips together, and said: "There, how do you feel now ? Don't talk : much, but don't you feel relieved?" .Tfie. victim looked at the doctor, and. at tfie , boy ai>who were picturesquely standing -around the ,bed and said :. f" Doc, for God's sake, what has happened to me ?" Therdbetpr told hittUto be quiet, and then whispered to him: " You have ba<J the worst fight that a man ever haol andHved^ A man attacked on .Well Street, w,ith tf; view; of robbing you, arid |yb« defended yourself, but it was a hard--«tTuj{ I|sU«'--.^lfl[|S-oifttryi please hand me that hand-glass. There, you can see for yourseJ.f. There is a contusion of the brain, the eyes are discolored, and I thought your jaw was broken, btttFJMjLyou can talk I guess it is-only"fractuj,edl^o.Q'| t talk." .The victim.' took a long looli at himself,; and the. firßtvtaing he said was: "Is the other fellow alive?" It^was all the boys coulddo to keep from bifrsfcng,*but they kept sober faces, and the 1 doctor said the other fellow was alive, but he was the worst used up man he ever, sewed up» He said one arm was broken, and one ©ye gouged-fout, and- his face, looked; us if a pile-driver had struck him. The victim smiled a satisfied smile as he heard how he hud whipped the other fellovr; aad theac the boys askod him if he had any. message '::% to send home. He took the mirror and -~k looked at himself again, and. them said,* „;■$ "Telegraph for my wife." Tbat wss too much; and thgfooys roared, aud the doctor tore oif the court plaster from his nose, . another,follow, brought a wei to.vcel and, the • ;; paint was washed off, and when hev^ww'v clean tbe boys banded himthemirrbrtand // he looked at .himself again,, and .then he saw it was a joke.' and he wanted to kill : some of them.— Peck's Sun. ~:i?j I' *i