DAN TAYLOR AND THE DUDE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4610, 13 October 1883, Page 2

DAN TAYLOR AND THE DUDE.

Last Wednesday Dan Taylor dropped into Pete Clancy's Shaving Parlors to have hia face operated on. Strangely r enough, the artist was not on hand. Mr Taylor therefore took off his coat and began to read a paper. Presently a dude entered, and, judging from Mr Taylor's semi-deshabille and indifferent air that he was the barber, he spread his elegant person on.the tonsorial chair, and, turning to Dan, remarked, " Shave me, my good follow." Mr Taylor was abouttoexplainmatters.bat suddenly ' the idea struck him that he might kill time profitably by carrying out the joke. Accordingly he tucked a sheet unJer the dude's chin, nearly strangling him in the operation, and having'irritated the shaving soap with a brush, proceeded to slaver. his victim in a manner too energetic to be appreciated. In spite of the dude's protestations he | kept up this process till a crisis was evi--1 deutly, Imminent, and it became plain to Dan that it was about time for him to be taking his departure. He therefore afflicted the shavee with temporary blindness by giving him a dab of soap in botfc ■' eyes, and, stealing quietly to his cdai -, began to pat it on. "Ain't you going to shave me?" inter- ; rogated the dude, who had managed to regain his vision. "No," replied Dan, as he passed into the street; "we only lather here; yon have to step up to the next block to get shaved." , . . .

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