Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-15
COURTING IN A srREET.CAR.
NV. JaeHs0n's Conviction that Mrs
AsHWsa In " Better'n Any Woman ii

US bon- OObVlctlOn tnat Mrs.
LHwSa IL - Better'n Any Woman in
the Zion"
New York SUM-
Passengers in a Elatbush avenue,
Brooklyn, car the other evening
saw a little colored man enter at
Clark street. He was seated for
only y an instant, when he jumped
up and went on a run to the further
end Of the car and seized the hand
of a decidedly aeShy colored woman,
who wore an immense finger ring
and Grape bonnet with widows
weed. She looked up amazed, and
then the two laughed as only happy
colored people laugh.
81 clare, Miss Lewis, | s'posed
we'd lost you. ! haven't seen you
since the funeral, and I've been
thinking bout you ever since"
mo such thing, Mr.. Jackson"
said the widow coyly.
"True as Pm livin'; hope to die
if / hain't."
By this time the passengers had
edged their way along, entirely un-
noticed by the happy pair, and the
conductor stood in the door and
smiled.
"What was you looking for ue
for, Mr.. Jackson ?"
81 wasn't looking for you 'zactly,
but kinder tinkin'. I'm getting
thirty dollars month now, Miss
Lewis"
"Be your" and Miss Lewis sighed.
81 suppose Pye got to go to the
Elbow House this winter. Times is
very hard since Mr.. Lewis died."
"I've been thinking bout gettin'
married again, Miss Lewis. The
young ones kinder want watching
while Pm away" and Mr.. Jackson
rather nervously twiched the handle
of his basket. This was getting ex-
tremely interesting to the other
passengers, who, if they had lost
the words-which they did not
must have known from the actions
that Mr.. Jackson and "Miss" Lewis
were critically interested.
"Sure 'nough. should think
they would, poor things. There
amt nothin' | miss more, now Mr..
Lewis is dead, than chiren."
"Thirty dollars is pretty good |
pay these times, Miss Lewis"
"Of course, that's five dollars
more than Mr.. Lewis got when he
was troublin' the water so."
Whatever "Miss" Lewis meant by
this Mr.. Jackson understood it. |
"Yes," he said, slowly, che could
Jess trouble the water, couldn't he?
But he's gore, Miss Lewis, and you
gave him a good funeral"
Then there was a silence of a few
Mr.. Jackson and "Miss"
Lewis seemed embarrassed, and Mr..
Jackson appeared to grow very
small and "Miss" Lewis very large
"You know what the first thing
thought when see you jess now,"
Mr. Jackson said at last.
"How'm l goin' to know what
rou're thinkin' about, Mr.. Jack
ion?"
81 was a thinkin' you could take,
are of the chilen and me on thirty
lollars a month better'n any woman
n Zion" 2
81 spect could, Mr.. Jackson;o
nd Miss Lewis got very close
o Mr.. Jackson, and then poured
mt a rich giggle in which Mr.. I
ackson joined,
Whether Mr.. jackson and
Miss" Lewis, or the other pasSen-
ers who were almost bursting with
Impressed laughter, presented the
lost interesting sight at that mo-
lent, is a question. Neither said
more for some moments
in fact, not until the conductor !
allied " Sixth avenuer
II clare, Mr.. Jackson" said 7
Miss" Lewis, "we've come away j
y Fourth avenue. Stop the car,b
" SO we have, Ill go long with l.
ou, It's kinder lonesome here. "a
bouts" and the two left the car. :
The conductor said that jackson :
yed in Flatbush, and had four
His wife died about five