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14 THE JUDGE. A Specimen Hotel Clerk in the Blue Grass Region. “Yes,” said a well-known Evansville tourist to us the other day, ‘I’ve traveled a good deal in Kentucky, and itisn’t a par- ticularly quiet country for a man to move about The better sort of people there, mind you, are as nice folks as you would see anywhere, but the roughs are about as rough as they make them. They have a way, too, of introducing a pistol into an argument which is not appreciated by the colder spir- its of the North.” “Did you ever get into any trouble? “Once, when I was staying in Lexington, I had a rather unplesant adventure. “Let us have it, by all means “I noticed a big tough fellow come into the hotel and pay for a led. He ugly a looking brute as I ever saw. jack patch over his eye, and had his baggy ans stuffed into his b dime novel border ruffian. I came at once to the con- clusion that it would be healthy to ke of that fellow’s way, and I confess that I tas surprised that’such a bully would be accepted as a guest at a first-class hotel. The next. morning I was up ear was a little chilly, and I took a chair by the stove while they got breakfa eady. I hadn't been there more than five minutes when in walked the fellow I wished to avoid, and he drew a chair up and sat down be- side me. “* Say, stranger, how about them trains r Danville?” I do not know anything about the ins,” said I, rather stiffly. Then I got up, and took a chair near the door. There was no one in the office but a dapper little clerk, a chirpy little fel- low about five feet high, and very girlish in Appearance. ‘The obnoxious Kentuckian came and squatted down on a chair beside me. I felt myself getting hot and cold with vexation; but knowing that I would have no chance in a personal encounter with such a prudence suggested that I act qu Then he drew out of his pocket a dirty lene of tob: had half chewed it with his wolfish fangs. a chaw, stranger?” Thank you, I never che “Now, see here, you darned stuck-up Northern cuss. Think yer can come down here and show off your high-toned ain Guess yer'll swaller that lump of "bacca, or by G—ri— ‘What he would have done I do not know; but in an instant, with all the lithe tivity of a panther, that little clerk sprang r the counter w in his hand bristling li fight. “*Get out of this, you brute, or I'll blow the roof of your head off.” The bully’s savage look vanished from his face, and like a whipped hound he slunk backwards out at the door, on ng ina meek, shame. d manner: ‘Don’t shoot, 3 for 1’s sake don’t shoot; I war foolin’, hen when the door was slammed toon ure of the retreating bully, the clerk turned to me and said, in the most polite and indifferent manner, ‘I think, sir, you'll find your breakfast ready.” ‘ « Yes; they often wrap up first-class goods "—Evansville Argus. and every hair of his head the back of a terrier in a dog yout | » which looked as though he | ha big navy revolver | “Towemy Restoration lo Health and Beauly to the CUTICURA ? 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