"BLODE UP."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 839, 19 July 1879, Page 2

"BLODE UP."

The other day a muscular young fellow, having the odour of the stables about him, entered a Detroit photographer's establishment and explained that he would like to have about one photograph taken, but no . learning the price he concluded to invest in a tin type. After taken his seat in the chair, he shut up one eye, drew his mouth around one side, stuck up his nose, and waited patiently for the operator, whose astonishment caused him to exclaim : | " Good gracious ! but you don't want to look that way to get a picture. Nobody will know you from Sitting Bull." ' ' You go ahead, " was the reply. "Do you want me to take such a phiz as that?" "I do." The artist took it. It beat Sol Smith Russel all to pieces, and was highly satisfactory to the sitter, who paid for it and said ; "You soe, I had a sort of object in this. Came here from AUegan country six months ago — engaged to a gal out there — found a gal here I like better — got to sever old ties— see V 1 ' But what has that picture got to do with old ties V asked the artist. "Lots — heaps ! I've writ to her that I was blode up here on a boat and disfiggered for life. She's awful proud. When she gits this and sees how that explosion wrecked me, she'll hunt another lover quicker'n wink — see ? How do you like the plot ? Just gaze on this picture once and tell me that Mary ■ Ann won't send back my love letters the first train ;" He pasted the picture. The letter was brief, but explained all. It said : "My Ewer Dear Gurl — I inclose my picture that you may see how offul bad I was hurt, tho' I know you will love me just the same." "Ever see that game worked afore ?" he asked of the artist as he licked the the stamp on the letter. "No— never did." " Course you never did. It's mines It struck me the other day while I was greasin' a wagon, and I think its boss. Blode up— see 1 Disfiggered for life — see 1 Picture right up here to prove it, and she'll write back that she has at last concluded to yield to her parents' wish an marry a young man out there who owns, eleven steers, 100 sheep, and an eighty acre lot.