Going It Blind

who had been on a bender, had got wbatmight be termed sublimely mystiied by his frequent imbibing, of " the critter, Stivering along the streets he thought he would goto the theatre and lass the remainder of the evening. - Following some men he thought bouüd on the same voyage, he found himfiuli n what he thought the pit, but it hap;iened to be a meeting house, and the ninister was preaching upon the text whorein is rnentioned the sheep and the goatf-, and in order to make an imresHÏon upon his oongregation he pöt ;he significant question : " Who will be the goat ?" and paused, and then with still greater emphahÍ8 id : " Who will be the goat ?"- Our tipsev sailor could not brook the delay and he at once responded, " As nobody else (bic) will be it, I "11 be the hic) goat rather than the play (hic) should stop."