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8AME COMPLAINT J1IMSELF.A gentleman put up at a country tavern wb*T« it was common, in a mm of emergency, to put two iu a UnL He retired to n-st, lut he had not lain long j before ao heard the landlord, followed by I a guest, stamping along towards his room. 4 Confound tin? fdiow,' said Ik* himself, * 1 liopo he is not going to thrust another fellow into my U*L I d as soou sleep with the devil a*» with ouo of my own aex ; and thru who knows hut that he will give me sot*? terrible disease—the Hiiiuil|Mx, Ur iii -ad.n, or tins Scotch fiddle* f lla! a capital i.f.-a ! that reminds me of what I will lt;|o I to get rid of that fellow.’ All this j ja-vscl rapidly through hi* mind, and by I tin* tiuie tin? landlord o|tetied tli.* (fcw-e he was .sitting up in hi* l*il as if just awakened from his sleep, and industriously drawing the nails of one l.a.»d over tins lack and 1-tween Un oilier, UsiU eagerly scratching ot her jdaces.• Wake up, wake U|S' said the landlord, 4 wake up and lie out to the, other silt;k of the beil. I’ve gut a co uj-.mioii Ism for you—a bedfellow !’ • Ida. devil I you wouldn't think, I hop-—that is ** Don't make youmelf uneasy. All tha rest of my bed* have two |mthoi»s apiece, and yours mast have the same — so hitch either one way or tin- other.* 4 Alright, if you insist. Its not on my own aeeoUnL I oojeet ; but tin* truth is(scratching more tigotmtsiy tluri ev.-rj,between \ou, n.y«d:v and this gentleman I’ve got the iti'li, and i woildul like to give It to anyiMie else.* * II ** ; bot ! iuou ! said the stranger, who happened la be a Scotchman, * ye invd na to m ik’ bite muckle ado aWx it; tor 1 ve got the same complaint mysel*, and we tan bailh liddle tin* Kane: lime.*
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Darwin North Australian
Darwin, Northern Territory, AU
Sat, Feb 26, 1887
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