POETIC JUSTICE.

Clutha Leader, Volume 1, Issue 52, 8 July 1875, Page 3

POETIC JUSTICE.

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-was^'poetic justice s iu%eTetri-"— . -P^' ppi?*ed> out' Upon! the^amolol^^: Perrih^.a vyoiins; carpenter^ * ; s^°!*'^icbigari/ •a^ Few,:days- '&s.' / . red a^a^%^ieVe^}y^tithes^heed J mi(: J -- have- {h^n; >^^n^.7^,. > .^nfc/ J -that.;his • subsequent conduct disclosed him de- 7 void. of those "anua^ble-trait^loD&e^^^^ majpver., Ih short, iGhariSs graved? or himself to be hy nature a vicious soatop. ' " v " He became enamored of a very worthy young lady, his attachment.; Perhaps" she .comprebended all of Charles' bad traits; and regarded, him, as thte miserable scalawag/he was; ' unworthy to ' have, any . girl. 1 She told, him .plainly that^ s^e J ctmld never j;hink of marrying ; himly'et ! treated . ' him^ fcourtepusly.'t pis,e ft r,a^edr,Gharles, and he panted for 'revenge. ,He called upon the lady one' evening as'usual' but the bottle he 7 carried T in- the; rear pocket of his j pantaloons^ did/n6t;c6ritain fwhat gentlemen usually, carry in a pocket -flask \ He besought the young lady to ,take,a;walk with, him* ; but she refused. to g°-l He importuned_to see her ••'" alone • this was ; also, declined,^ .The '• crisis 'at last had cPmeV ""'.^^ Me ;:; spoil her- beauty, for eveiyand had just' ' got ready .to :'drak;the^bottle V: lr6^ hi^ ' Mpoekej; (when We follow ths -faithful' ' : chrohiclefof the u ?6rhe- •:« thing | bit' him 1 . ' He iho%htiV wis^ l dog, but it wasn't.; ->.-Tnei cork had <■• worked out of the bottle,, and his coafc tails were turning v ,brickv; color at, the. , rate of a 'ya¥d a' minuted ' Tne ! acid wasn't -content with the coat tails,^ but struck out for .flesh, and, in about;. -a f minute the young man' was dancing •-.' .' around thehouseas'-iftoescape aibullet.' A' Shouting andrwhooping; he.%ot out of' the house and threw off , most of -his '"> clothipg, arid rolled/ in the mud, and it was Sometime before any!' dne .could • find out- whether : he : had Shakes in his boots ;or had :sat down- on- a brad -..awl;-. He was so badly burned'thatiwomen had to help.him to his- boarding-house, where a physician dressed bis burns." ' -'"