AN INFERNAL MACHINE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4449, 9 April 1883, Page 2

AN INFERNAL MACHINE.

A rather sad affair took place on ope of our streets the other day; A young lady with her arms fall of bandies emerged from a dry goods store, when on« of fiem fell on the sidewalk without her noticing it. Just behind her was a young man, and a Belfast young man who if not polite, is not anything, and he quickly stepped forward to pick it up. Now a bundle done up in a piece of paper with a dry goods adrertisement on it is as apparently harmless as a mother's spanking, and there it lay as guileless as an angle worm on a sidewalk after a rain. Just as he stopped to pick it up there was. a rustling of tue paper, the twist began to come out of the ends, and in another in- . stant a bright red thing, a sort of cross between a balloon and a deVil-fisb, flew into the air before his eyes, and a number ten, 36-inch, double-jointed duplex, elliptic, steel-bowed, bustle-attachment, dollar-and-a-half, red-headed boopskirt, waltzed around and gyrated and opened and shut up and fell on the walk v flat .' and thin as a restaurant pie; and the young man straightened himself up, looking as if he wished the tail of comet No. 2 would sweep him from this fair land; and the young lady came back with a face that resembled a sunset on a fifty centchromo; and she picked up the wire contrivance, and then she went towards the east and the sun ducked his head behind a cloud to hide a smile, and three «r four looked on, laid down and laughed and doubled themselves up in a manner Hhat would hare made a mesa of green apples hang their head in shame.