LIVELY STORY OF A POT OF PAINT

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1152, 20 February 1874, Page 2

LIVELY STORY OF A POT OF PAINT

[dAnSury news] Old Mr Watson, of Nelson-street, has got a nice little bill to pay. He sent a man down for a pot of paint and a ladderi The man got the paint, and then went to a lumber yard for a ladder. Then he tied the paint pot on the end of the ladder, and put the ladder on his shoulder. This Was a Very smart af range ment, and the man himself admired it very much* He started for home this way, and didn't find any trouble in getting along the first block, because people had an impression that a long ladder with a pot of yellow paint dangling on the end of it wasn't exactly the thing to trifle with, so they balanced along the curb-stone and rubbed up against the buildingsj Prettj' soon the man saw somebody he knew in a store and turned round to speak to him, and drove one end into a millinery case and knocked the crown out of an eighteen dollar bonnet. Then he backed off in affright, and kuocked down two sewing machine agents with the other. Then he started to turn round, and an old gentleman who was desperately endeavouring to pull his wife out of danger, saw the peril, and shouted out, " Hi, there!" But it wa<! too late. The pot struck against an awning post to one side, and the entire! contents went over the aged couple. This so startled the mail that he whirled completely around, smashing in an entiro store front, frightening a milkman's team add knocking over thirteen persons who were actively dodging to get out of the way. Then he dropped the ladder and fled into the country, shouting "murder ' and "fire" at evt:rv jump. A regular ordained painter is now engaged on Mr Watson's house.