Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-06-07
NO DOGS ALLOWED IN THE CARS.

1t happened the other day on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad. The train had just left
Easton, and the conductor was making his
first round, when he observed small white
dog, with bushy tail and bright black eyes,
sitting costly on the seat beside young lady
so handsome that it made his heart roll over
like lop-sided pumpkin. But duty was
duty, and he remarked in his most depreca-
tory manner:
I'm very sorry, madam, but it's against
the rules to have dogs in the passenger cars"
90! my, is that 40 ?" and she turned up
two lovely brown eyes at him beseechingly.
"What in the world will I do2 I can't
throw him away. He's Christmas present
from my aunt"
"By no means, miss. Well put him in a
baggage car, and he'll be just as happy as a
robin in spring"
"What put my nice white dog in nasty,
stuffy, dusty, baggage car"
."Im awfully sorry, miss, do assure you,
but the rules of this company are as inAexi-
BILE as the laws of the Medes and them other
fellows, you know. He shall have my over.
coat to lie on, and the brakeman shall give
him grub and water every time he opens his
mouth"
II just think it's awful mean, so I do and
know somebody will steal it, so they will"
and she-showed a halfnotion to cry that
nearly bE5ke the conductors heart; but he
was firm, and sang out to the brakeman who
was playing solo on the stove:
"Here, Andy, take this dog over into the
baggage car, and tell 'em to take just the
best kind of care of him."
The young lady pouted, but the brakeman
reached over and picked the canine up as
tenderly as though it was two-weeks' s'old
baby, but as he did so a strange expression
came over his face, like wave of cramp-
collie, and he said hastily to the conductor:
"Here, you just hold minute till l put
the poker away" and he trotted out at the
car door and held on to the brake wheel, like
a man shaking with the ague.
The conductor no sooner had his hands on
the dog than he looked around for hole to
fell through.
"Wh.wh why, this is worsted dog"
eyes, sir" said the little miss, demurely,
"didn't you know thatr
"No, I'm most awful sorry to say I didn't
know that" aud he laid the Christmas dog
down in the owners lap, and walked out on
the platform, where he stood half an hour in
the cold, trying to think Of hymn tune to
suit the worst sold man on the Lehigh Valley
road.
n9~ A Scotchman went to get his child
christened. "What name," says the parson,
"shall I cali the child?" "Thoo can caal the
kid owt thoo likes" says the father. "Well,"
says the parson, II think Benjamin is very
nice name" "Varry weel," says the father,
"caal him Benjamin" The father came out
of the church with his wife and child, high.
ly delighted with the name. when thought
struck him. Rushing back into the church,
and overtaking the parson walking down the
aisle, he exclaimed, "Hey, mister, the young
squeakers lass!" The parson was at loss
what to do under the circumstances. How
ever, he put in an at the end of the name,
and they called it Benjamina.
AFRAID OF THE STUDENTs.-Young DR..
Tying told story on himself not long ago
which has some point in it to those who are
eager to preach before they are ready. While
studying in Virginia he was in the habit Of
holding service at neighboring chapel. A
friendly old darkey used to pass bis church,
and trudge a mile beyond to Methodist
Westinghouse. When asked why he did not
90 to hear Massa Tying, he made this shrewd
reply: "Ah, no; don't catch this niger let
tin de students practice on him."