The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-02-03

nevergepntenIp lstelvssEp
sYoui eises n,slighs,, sar p said the
foreign lady. Here was chance of es-
/ cape!
Il have no lights, madam
'Ah, dash J she said. 'But, no conse.
| quence, ,-G uard = ~. "A
Th guard came up. 4
You give ME light 2,
And he gave her light, and then he
I disappeared.
4 i wassuearly cloki6g with tn, fumes
of fihersdetestable aIpvappahs At last |
could stand il no longer, aodI said,- :.
81 beg.your pardon, both obj1cf to
smoking. & p
'Ah,' replied the lady, you object to
snloke-you truvel in smoking carriage !!
Donkcy-jackass donkey"
! She said these. st'thrce words with
! ,hc air of one swhoshad done short ad
dition sum, aud was stating the total.
l had never travelled abroad, but |
knew that foreigners are remarkable for
their polilencss
4 entered this carriage to avoid the
society OF ladies'
Ne, too, saiI the foreign lady.
Dash hate lady. like geutlenan ?
Then she added as an aitcrthoueht,
You arc naughty old customer, but |
like you-yop rumn'y old passenger 7
1 l was exceedingly annoyed at this
plume myself on my good taste in dresa
that is to say, study to dress myself
in such a way us to call for no rema rk
! Of any kind, which Ihold to be the per.
+ 'fection of good taste Ny personal ap.
pearance is simply g"ntlcmanly, without
any thing remarkable about it, 1t has
been my eohstan' study to be gentleman.
I ly, but usual; and to be called a rummy
old passenger was, under the circum.
stances, ns Irritating thing However.
maintained dlInincd silence.
| 1t was very cold light, and my Eel.
low passenger had evidently a strong
= tlSsh d scsT5 bi5Sd IA fcF veins So
Thought it, wouli rriate hcrif let
dowusthc window. Accordingly | did
sThafkayoh, Old passenger she said
4 like fresh airs. | let this one down
too !" Aud she lowered the other win
dow
/ couldn 'tstanl the drausht, so pu,
up my window and she put up hers.
was sulkily furious by this time In
halt IN hCfr we should reach Stafford
and . determined to change my carriage
atthdt station In'themeantime red
to sleep, but the foreign lady kept up
such an inccssant clatter, that sleep was
out of the question.
Whore you going, old passenger
You not tell? Secret, ch All, sly
dog? You old cashier, perhaps, bolt
ing with bank moneys, eh? ? Confden-
tal clerk, with employers cash box in
portmanteau, eh? Old boy going up
north to marry old girl on Che sly, ch
B'gman, and ashamed of it, perhaps,
eh, you old passenger Bah Bag.
man good as anybody else Never be
ashamed-look at mel Me not blush at
myself. What you say ] am ?-eh ?
You not guess Duchess? No. Count
css7 No! Lady Of large property
wife of Glasgow merchant? Devil 4
bit 4. Missionary woman? No. i ht-
:oae dancer2 No, Stewards on. W..
Ind'aman, spending pay? Yes-,hat's
it! Come home six months Find big
American ship water-logsed cargo
motions nobody on board but pussy
cat, you rnmmy old passenger-b boarded
her lullo What's that
| did not know what it was, but there
was sudden snap, and our carriage
gradually s!ackcncd speed, and evcntu-
ally stopped | put MY head ont of the
window The coupling had broken, and
our carriage and the guards van had
been separated from the rest Of the
train. The driver knew nothing about
it; aud there we were, halfway between
Stafford and Rugby at twelve, A. NJ,
on a very cold April night!
Great IIeav ens'.' said L in the very
greatest alarm, the coupling has broken
and We are lciO behind by the train
We shall be smashed by the next down
train =
Not a bit, you old strange one :,