Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1881 — You Sweet' Thing. [ARTICLE]

You Sweet' Thing.

San Franclßco Chronicle.' The other evening a curbstone broker named Fuller, 'fefiilestonding in the door of a livery stable on Sixth street, addressed a atiaage young lady as “You sweet thlug.” The sweet thing turned on her heel quick as a flash and struck the insolent lellow wRh a blow whbher parasol that she ctenfhis cigar fiyibg out ol his .jnouth. A second crash with the knocked the conceit so eompletegpout of the curbstone fiend that ydUed for protection. The enraged young lady followed the coward and demoralized speculator, and oanged him at every bound, until in desperation he threw himself on the floor and almost kicked the plastering off the ceiling In his efforts to ward off the blew*. After beating the fellow until she. -was tired, the “sweet thing'* folded the shreds of her parasol *oubd its bent and battered ribs, aud walked away, followed by the prayers and admiring glauoes < f every oh! who had witnessed the aflair. •’*» aPg -toHw