A ROUGH SHAVER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1093, 7 June 1882, Page 2

A ROUGH SHAVER.

A jovial publican went into a shaving saloon at Charters Towers, and, the barber beioft out, shaved himself. Ha was just taking last look in the gla'jj when a swell Chinaman entered, and clapping him on the baok with the graceful ease that can only be attained by a Mongolian of large affluence, said— Yon thavee me quick, welly smooth," and flopped down in a chair with the air of a man who had ordered an eclipse or, an earthquake, and knew that ifc would come.. Boniface had never shaved a man in his life, but before you could eay Great Thady he had the soap slammed on to the upturned face, and rubbed in nearly to the bone. Then he seleoted a razor-it happened to be the one kept by , the barber for his patrons to cut their cornn~a.id laying this high-class iostruraent on the strop with the pressure of about a ton to the square inch he com. menced operations. One sorape made John think he'd been scalped on the jaw, • but the second beaded-red spots on his cheeks like splashed Jam. .■ . . The suffering Ohtnee, with a yell of agony, rose from his ohair spluttering soap and blasphemy, . . . . . .... .When ' it was all over John went home and sharpened a earring-knife,