Sweet Revenge.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 4029, 3 September 1898, Page 4

Sweet Revenge.

— — ■ — The judge; had never taken a Turkish bath, but he was not feeling his best that morning, and it suddenly occurred to him to test its vivifying effects, so enthusiastically descanted upon by his young friends/ It seemed to the judge that the rubber was terribly rough, but, fearing to expose his iuexperience and subjeot himself to ridicule by objecting to the regular treatment, fae patiently endured being punched, pummelled, slapped, spanked, whacked, and poked, until he could not stand the torture a moment longer. '" Is— it— qui-ite— neoes-sary — to — m-ake— me— bla-ack— and — blue •— all ov-er ?" panted the judge, and as irregularly, as the rubber dug his fists in more or less vigorously. " Never you mind ; I'm fixin' you," responded the rubber, redoubling his assaults, and grinning diabolically — at least so it seemed to the judge.,, " Who (slap, groan) are (thud, groan) you?" gasped the judge, a horrible suspicion dawning in his mind. • " Your (whack, groan) face (thump, groan) does (whack, groan) look (slap,' groan) fa— (thud, groan)— miliar " (swish, groan). uO, you remember me, do you ?" growled the rubber, sarcastically. " Well, dash yer old hide, mebbe you'd like to send me up for six months again for prize fightin' 1 "— " Harper's."