PLAYING A JOKE ON A TEMPERANCE MAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2061, 6 August 1885, Page 2

PLAYING A JOKE ON A TEMPERANCE MAN.

j " Show the gentleman up," said Mr Gough, the famous temperance lecturer, and a pleasant introduction followed, after which Artemus Ward said: ''Mr Gough, I am chaperoning tfyese gentlemen, and we are indulging in a little of the sparkling, and if you do not object I will order up a round for them and 1 myself." Gough didn't objoct, and Ward ordered up four Bfiff cocktails. When they were placed beforo the merry guests, they quickly quaffed, But one glass remained untouched. "What is this for?" queried Gough, pointing to the extra decoction. "Oh 1 that's for me," with a merry twinkle of his eye; "when I take a drink I always feel like another man, and I always treat the other man, see ?" Each member of the coterie, save Gough, ordered a round of four drihka eaoh. As the last round was being carried up, the landllord of the hotel asked where in thunder all that liquor wsb being taken. "To Gough's room," replied the boy. '' How many are in the room!" "Four, including Mr Gough." "And four drinks-why, the infernal oid hypocrite, he shall be expose!. It was the work of a few momenta to inform the newspaper reporters, and when morning came the whole city resounded with the newsboys' shout of " All about Gouch oh a drunk!" Gough boardsd tho first train out of the city, and has never dared to venture there since. He was the innocent viotim of a praotical joke, but the Erie people believe him to be ahvpocriti«u old sot. .