The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-25

Yan.-Carryin' on any business ont OF
town?
Eng.-No, sir.
Yan-What is your business when you
are to home?
Eng.-I am not in any business
Yan.-0h Retired?
Eng.-Yes.
Zone would have thought that the Ameri-
can, having now run his quarry completely
down, would have retired" also; but no, he
returned to the charge again.
Yan.-What business was you in before
you retired?
Eng.-I was book publisher.
Yan.-In business long?
Eng.-Forty years.
Yan.-Wal you've got some time yet to
enjoy yourself. How old do you call your
self?
rat this point the good natured Briton,
who had been more amused than vexed by
this impairment catechism, changed his tao
tics and replied to his interrogator's last
question in the true American style-by ask
ing another-and continued to follow him
up after the same fashion he had been at
tackled himself, as follows:l
Eng.-How old should you think meY
Yan.-Wal, about a matter of sixty-five
or seven.
Eng.-How old are you?
Yan.-Give guess.
Eng.-Forty-two. Are you an American?
Yan.-Yes, sir STRENGTHENING up)-
Eng.-In what part of America were you
born?
Yan.-Wal, 1 was raised in Vermont, but
moved to Elmiry, n. Y.
Eng.-Married?
Yan-Yes, sir; merried when / was
twenty-five.
Eng-Any children?
Yan.-No, sir; never he'd none.
Eng.-Wife travelling with you?
NJ orrrtd
Eng.-Ahl excuse me; but what's your
business when you are at home?
Yan.-Pm a milkman-I carry round
milk.
Eng. (smiling(-But what will your
customers do for milk while you are away?
Yan.-0h, sold out my route, which was
a good one, fur five HUNDRED dollars, and
took four ont, and bought one of them
Cook tickets to come out here to the Vienny
exhibition.
This milk revelation was too much for me,
who had been sitting my laughter by every
possible device, as the unmercitul English
man went on with the quiZzing OF the
enemy; and at this point was compelled to
seek relief in an explosion of laughter, in
which he joined, and, to our no small aston
ishment, the milkman also, who remarked
that it was a good joke, and he guessed the
Teller that bought the route would hev
easier work deliverin' milk to some Of his
customers than collectin their bills"
The above dialogue was no fancy sketch,
and its hero was an actual sample of an
American excursionist; and it is not the
only one of this description either that the
facilities of travel, the cheap ticket system
and Vienna exhibition attracted from their
native land, for / have encountered several
others equally amusing. One who rushed up
to the carriage of party of us who were
leaving the hotel to say that he was going to
travel with currier, and so far from seeing
the point when asked by gentleman If he
wanted to improve his acquaintance in the
leather trade seriously replied he never had
any dealings in that line. Another, in Rome,
on being asked to join party to visit the
Colosseum, replied, colosseum what's
that?'
"Why, the old Roman circus, you know"
"0h, yes Is there a performance this
evening? What time does it beginp
An explanation that the circus referred to
was unlike the modern one, with horses,
clowns and acrobats. had to be gently limited
TO this ambitious sightseer to prevent mis-
apprehension and disappointment.