"FROM THE EAST."

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1521, 5 March 1886, Page 3

"FROM THE EAST."

He *m a dapper little fellow, as tidy aa a new pin, and ns he entered one of the *' wimple room* " on Woodward Avenue, yesterday, the barkeeper mentally remarked—- ' That fell* w will call forchampaene." But he *a* mistaken ; the little fellow leaned over tie bar and said—"l want a tumbler two-thirds full of water, and some pieces of pure ice in the tumbler." ]t was handed him and he asked " Do y->u ever have a lemoo about the place J""

M Yea." M Well, gen f .ly equecza one into the tumbler."

The squeezing process took place, and the little man continued

M Do you have raspberries out here!" " We'do."

" Well, put two into the tumbler." They were added, and he put his hand to hia brow, tried hard to collect hi« memory, and auddenly exclaimed—

"Ah ! yea—sugar ! I knew I could think of it. Add a spoonful of augar." While it waa being added the little man dropped on to three kernels of coffee, a powdered cracker, aad a bit of cheese, and then aaid i

"If joa keep Madeira you can add a ipoonfuL"

The Madeira was added, the glass shaken, and the little man opened a long Morocco case which lie took from a side pocket, took out a solitary straw, carefully cut oif an inch or two from one end, and said : " Owing to the presence of malarial diseases in your Western country I find it the best way to carry mr own straw with me. A fellah kinder hates, you know, to use every-body'a straw, you know, especially out West here." He pinned his handkerchief under his chin, brushed back his moustache, and began drawing. The bar-keeper's pet dog came in when the glsss was half drained, and the little man took the straw from his mouth and said

" Plwease remove your dawg to the rear room, I can nevah d wink lemonade with a dawg in the room " The " dawg" was escorted out, snd when the bar-keeper returned the little man had disappeared, and the glass had been emptied of even the lemon peel