LIVELY TIME FOR THE OLD LADY.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5106, 29 May 1885, Page 2

LIVELY TIME FOR THE OLD LADY.

During the past summer a handsome young man and mischievous young lady were stopping at an American seaside hotel. The young man was teased by his friends on account of his habit of having something to eat just before going to bed. One evening he found a large paper bag of biscuits on his table. Rashly jumping to the conclusion that the mischievous young lady had made him the gift, he went on tip toe to the door of her room, and tossed a cracker through the open transoms. The room was dark, but the cracker's fall was followed by a slight scuffling. He paused a moment, and then threw a second and a third. Each time the rustling was heard, but no one spoke. Having tossed the entire contents of the bag into the room, the young man stole away. As be left the corridor, he met the young lady coming to her room. Troubled in his miod, he made inquiries the next morning as to the effect of his bombardment, and learned, to. his horror, that the first cracker thrown had landed on the head of the young lady's grand* mother, an ion'rm old lady of nearly eighty, who was at the moment kneeling reverently by her bedside. Much alarmed, she had risen to her feet only to receive the second shot. She had then! retreated to a corner, but, being further assailed, and not being able to form any idea of the origin of the mysterious missilies, she had finally crept under the bed, where she was discovered in a for* lorn condition by her astonished grandchild,