Another Victim In The Pickling Vat

The warm westher mukes the barbera and nies glad. These two classes seem to have formed a partnership. "Shan't I dip ttaia hair pretty sliort, so your head will be rooier," remarked the barber, as we took a wat In his cluür last Katunlay- thermometer at 99" n Ik ritade. "Yes, shrar it down," was thfj hiisusIKJctin tj reply. Llttle did wcthink in glvrogsucb Instruc tions of the misery in store. After the manipulator of the comb nnd shean had eeased mnnlpulatiu;, and we had admired the glossy capillarysubstanee, slwked down so shiny like, and the exeeeding prominciK e the short hair gave to the varions wcll developed bumps of gonerosity - pars - statesnmnslüp, laiifrua;e, etc., etc., leal te red over ottr cranium in their proper lm ulitics - vide cover page of Phrenological Jonrnal - we gave the flendlsli hair clipper au extra five cents in pure admlration of his masterly and artistic job. Witli a light heartandcool lipad, pleawd with the world and all its dwellers, we sought onr sanctura. Hardly had wc taken our seat therein before every pestiferous fly in tlie room took in the situation. Tliey held a council and then commenced the attack. First one fly would liglit on the back uf our hoad and crawl upwards, the hair being so short that every motement of his legs would make tti scalp tingle for an inch around. We would brusli tnuitically at his satanicship, but he Woald dodse every blow and return to tlie attack with renewed zeal, at the same time tipping the wink to two or three others lying in wait, who would quietly liglit on the top of our scalp and crawl down, where the two would moet and hare a game of tuir. men leiniorcements arrived; several of them would take the part in the hair for a war path and march single file iU wliole length. The more f rantically we swung our arms the more flies would bc attracled by the commotion, and join in the torture. At last the head gear of a chambermaid, as she sweeps the rooms, flashed across ,,ui mind. Working on the suggestion, we constructed a covering for our araputated liair out of newspapers, which rivale, in an emluent degree, the bonnets of the sisters ofcharity. The flte gara Hup. Theycould not penétrate the paper with their tceth or tickle our scalp any longer with their feet, and are waiting patiently for the next tiin of tlie harber shop. It miglit bc proper to add, jiistlicre, that there is a cadáver in the medical college that resembles "T)oc" Simonds in sucli a degree that people are loth to bettove that t is any more than hls ghoat that now urges ciistomei-8 to have their hair cut- slioil.