Dan Taylor and the Dude.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1797, 12 January 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Dan Taylor and the Dude.

Last Wednesday Dan Taylor dropped into Pete Clancy 'b Shaving Parlors to have his face operated on. Strangely enough, the artist was not on hand. Mr. Taylor therefore took off his coat, sat down and began to read a paper. Presently a dude entered, and, judging from Mr. Taylors semi-deshabille and indifferent air that ho was the barber, he spread his elegant person on the tonsorial chair and, turning to Dan, remarked, " Shave me, my good fellow." Mr. Taylor was about to explain matters, but suddenly the idea struck him, that he might kill time profitably by cairying out the joke. Accordingly, he tucked a. sheet under the dude's chin, nearly strangling him in the operation, and having irritaied the shaving soap with a brush, proceeded to slaver his victim in a manner too energetic to be appreciated. In spite of the dude's protestations he kept up this process till a crisis was evidently imminent, and it became plain to Dan that it ! was about time for him to be taking his departure. He therefore afflicted the shavee with temporary blindness by giving him a dab of soap in both eyea, und, stealing quietly to his ooat began to put it on. "Ain't you going to shave me?" interrogated the dude, who had managed to regain his vision. "No," replied Dan, as ho passed into the street ; "we only lather here ; you have to step up to the next block to get shaved." — Matin County Toscin.