HE SUFFERED LONG

Southland Times, Issue 2244, 24 December 1875, Page 3

HE SUFFERED LONG

When its coin men cpcl lo rain on Friday a msn stepped into an office on Griswold street and remarked ; " This raiu will cool the atmosphere, won't it ?" The proprietor agreed that it would. ]n about five minutes another man ci\me in to borrow a paper, and he remarked; " T his rain will cool the atmosphere, won't it?" The proprietor thought it would, and had jusc dated a letter, when a man called to ask the loan of an umbrella, and stood for a moment and remarked ; " 1 his rain will cool the atmosphere, wou't it?" "I suppose it. will?" snapped the office man, and he turned to bis letter again. He had written tour lines when a man entered and asked him the way to thy City Hall, and then remarked ; " This rain will cool the atmosphere, won't it ?" , " Named if I care whether it does or not ?" growled the bored man ; and he wrote five lines more and was biting his pen-holder, when a man jumped into the door, shook himself, and remarked ; " r J his rain will cool the atmosphere, wont it ?" " No sir!" yelled the office man at the top of his voice, and he said he'd wallop the next man who said " rain " to him. He bad turned his letter over, when along came a tall youDg man, with a long nose. He looked into the office, halted, and, as he Btood in the door and shook his umbrella, he »aid : . " Don't you think this rain will ceol the at ?" "No! blast your white eyes! I don't !" yelled the man who was writing, and he threw down his pen and made ready for the next one. Along came the man who has an office above, and who is a very good man aud a worthy citizen, and he stuck his head in the door and called out •, . ' 11 Ah ? we'll all sleep better to-nigntf Don't you think the rain will ?" "I> T o, you old liar?" yelled the office man, and he shut the door with Buch suddenness that the inquirer fell off the step, rolled over his umbrella, and sat down on his hat. He got up and wanted to lick somebody, and said he thirsted for blood, but the rain calmed him down, and the office man locked his door and hung up a sign reading ; "Not a blamed bit cooler than before."— Detroit Free Press.