BLUFFING A WAITER.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5052, 23 March 1885, Page 3

BLUFFING A WAITER.

As we got into South Carolina we were joined by a judge from Pittsburgh I for get just what court he was judge of, but he had been travelling South for his health and had just figured up that he bad paid out £25 In fees to waiters, and was mad all the way through. He vowed by his baldness that he wouldn't payout another red centi and we encouraged him as hard as we could. . .

When we went up to the hotel the landlord gave us a big room with three beds in it. A big negro brought the trunks up, and when be was ready to go the judge called him and began : " Colored person, stand up! Now I want to cay to you that I shall expect prompt service without fees. You'have brought up my trunk; that's all right— it was your business to. I shall want water, and I may want a fire, and I shall probably ask you to go of errands, but if you look fees at me I'll throw you out of the window!"

1 We were there two days, and'the waiter | was vigilant, humble, and willing, but as we made ready to depart the morning of the third, in comes a constable with a | warrant to arrest the Judge for threats of personal violence. It had been sworn out before a Justice ten miles away, and the complainant was the negro waiter. I It took the two of us to hold the Judge down on his back during his first paroxysm, and when he had cooled off a little the negro slipped into the room and said : ■•• White man, stand up! Now I want to say dat a five dollar bill will settle dis yer case jist as I feel now; but if you goes Jtfi callin' names or pullin' hair or kickin' I'll stick fur twenty five dollaw ! Dat Justice am my own brudder, an' he's jist achin' to send some white man ter jail fur six months!" We sat on the Judge again for about twenty minutes, at the end of which time he handed over the amount and was pronounced sane.