"take Off Your Coat, Gibbs."

Judge - Where did you find this colored man, officer? Officer - I fonnd kim last night hanging around Devlin & Oo. 's clothing store. Mr. Devlin bas had a good deal of clothing stolen lately and I brought this man on suspicion. Judge- What is your name, prisoner ? Prisoner - Napoleon Bonaparte Gibbs. Jndge - What is your oocupation ? Gibbs - I'se traveling agent for de new patent whitewash brush, sah. Judge - Take off your coat, Gibbs. Gibbs- I hope you 'scuse me, sah. I'se been troubled lately witk the 'fluency in de head, de 'zootic, sah. I'se very bad. J udgc - Take off your coat, Gibbs. (Gibbs takes off bis coat slowly.) Judge - Ah ! Another coat under that; nothing like being wrapped up well, as they say in Alaska wben they go skating. Take off your coat, Gibbs. Gibbs - I isn't well, I isn't, sah. De doctor say, Napoleon, you wear plenty clothes. De 'fluency, sah. (Takes off his coat.) Judge - Ah ! What have we here ? A swallow-tail ? Take off your coat Gibbs. Gibbs - Dis yere won't do, Jndge. I's got a stuffness in de borax. I's vory bad. (Takes off his coat. ) Judge - Ad ! A double-breasted frockl Take off your coat, Gibbs. Gibbs - Dar's gwine to be a funeral here, dar is, sah; I fisels de stuffness rising in de borax. (Takes off his uoat. ) Judge - What's this? A shootingjacket, by the soul oí Nimrod ! Take off your coat, Gibbs. Gibbs- I'kc gwino for a kerpus - I's getting oold. Dis ycre is murdor ia de fustest degree. (Takes off his coat. ) Judge- A linen duster. I think I've got you down to hard pan, Gibbs. I hall commit you without bail. Tnke him down gently, officer, for he is a lily - a lily of the valley. He toils not, neither does he spin; yet Solomon, in all his glory, wati not clothod like him. - New York Oraphic. Napoleon III. wasaslrilled mechanic. Workiag at the Jathe was his great hobby,