PREPARING FOR. EMERGENCIES.'

Otago Witness, Issue 1319, 10 March 1877, Page 21

PREPARING FOR . EMERGENCIES. '

A reporter, ne'vvly; amyejcl I'gnji'.thef Comstock, and ;i whpse hair/riiies'at.itKe' thought of the many times gentlemen of his profession are -threatened withiviolent 'death . up:here,< -has sstartedL.to, prepare! himself for- emergencies. When'sfiohew. his room he .engages in conversation' with) himself l thus ; "I assure, you^' sir,Typu : are entirely ' mistaken. ■ You are* no'ff'iihW man that item refera' to- 4 Then Lthfeimmaginary " enemy .' * replies : "' t 1 know' better, you blank r blank'liar.^ '"l^yfiaJE^r yells the reporter, springing,, up^ taid[ whisking .but his revolver, ' ' do you; Wean to.call-me-a liar : ! " , Then he is suppotfeU] to kilL the , enemy Upon the spot. UiTihe. main object of this practice ia'to se'ehoV quickly he can jerk* 'out his 'revolver..' 1 -OnS Sunday he walks out on the Geiger grade andinsults himself in the grossestmiiuier' .every few, minutes: / Last Sabbafti^eriddled hip 'hat on a post', fdr'addreWin^ him in. shockingly disrespectful' language! He can now* wheeiyj p'uU his "pistol ' anjT fire in leas than three seconi^.. /He loqis upon himself , as a dangerous man, ; and has already selected the old. shaft twhere' his dead ,are to be concealed. — Nevada Gold Hill News. „■!■'.. . j ;