VACOINATION.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 4058, 31 October 1881, Page 3

VACOINATION.

Rrioht and early yesterday morning, a . . middle-aged man, of anansious'look and' j much'corporosity, called at tho City Hall, and went for tho Chief of Police, witli',:— v ~ " Haf wb' some shmall-box in Dedroit ?" "I belief wo havo a sporadic case or two." was,tho reply.' " Una doze' somebody haf to get waccinat;d to keep him away ?" Every citizon should protect himeelf." " How many dimes was I get waccmatcd to keep dot the shmall-box out of mcin house und saloon?",."Oh',. I guessjonco.'t will do," '" Voncc I Great Shiminyl no more ash dot? Shust wait a; minuto 1" He' jerked off liis coat anil pushed up his shirt sleeves and pointed to four: spots pn his left arm, and'fivo oii his" right, end. said Four and five makes nine dimes dot'l vhas waccinatcd in four days 1" " How is that ?" "How isli dot ? Dot's what ■; I likes myself to know 1 I vahs shust.; reading about : dak shmajl-box do '[ odder day in der Shorman papers, when two nien vhalks in mine saloon, and says Sharley, dot shmall-box is all ofcr' down, and;you must be waccinatcd, or der Common Council will closo you oop I So I was waccinatcd for two shillings nnd zwei class beer." "Yes?" "It was shust two hours,more as a man comes in, und say ho vhas sontto waccinato mo on der J odder arm) und I ptiys him two 1 shillings ' * und plws of beer", "Yos", "Boforo night a man mit spcctaclos' comes in und says ho vas sent by do Healthy Poard to , spo oof l,vhas waccinatcd. I show, him. , two blaces/butlhe. 1 - shakes his headt und ■' ' says:-"Dot waccination am too high oop, lind'you yhill gotder shmall-box in der ■' ! hands." Den'lie makes dot blaco here, ■ ' und I gif him twenty-fivb cents und diss beer." "Yes?" "Vliell, ,in der courso '' of four days six more men comes aroundfc to.waccinato'mp by order uf der Mayor,;;,', der Gufcrnor, tier Bresident,' der Board of Piililic Vorks, and I. don't 'yhat elso. und cfcry timo I bays two shillings, una , class'becr. Vhen I vhns nin6 times I pegins to peliovo I vas n greenhorn, und when der tenth man comes, arondt I '' hit liiui on . der head, mit u bottle und Tlialks oafer to see you about it, .Vhas ; it all right. u I guess the boys woro. guy-i ing you." ''Vlmiis dot?" "Why you - haven't really been vnooinatcd at all." 1 " N—o 1" " No, and you'd 1 better be vaccinated again." ; u Waecinated again! Waccinatcd don dimes f Neferl Potor .I vhas don dimes I catches der shmall-pox, und goes to pod, mit him all zummcr! Dot's somo closo pins liko I am 1" —Detroit Fm Prtss. . , .