Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-01-08
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1878.
The Romance Of a Sleeping Car.
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It was in the Cedar Rapids sleeper.
Outside it was as dark as the inside of
an ink-bo tie. in the sleeping car
people slept.
Or tried il.
some of them slept, like Christian
men and women, peacefully and
sweetly and quietly.
Others slept like demons /; malig-
pantIy, hideously, iendishly, as
though il was their mission To keep
everybody else awake.
OF these, the man in the lower No.
8 was the boss" When it came to a
SQUARE snore with variations, you
wanted to count clover three" in
With a hand and a pocket full Of rocks.
We never heard anything snore like
him. 1t was the most systematic mo-
ring thai was ever done, even on u
OF those tournaments Of snoring, a
sleeuing car. He didn't begin as soon
AS the lamps were turned down aud
everybody was in Ted. On no
There was more cOld-blOoded diabO-
lism In his system L all that. He
waited until everybody had had a III
tie taste Of sleep, just to see how good
and pleasant il was, and then he broke
I'm on theiT SAUNDERS like 4 winged,
breathing demon, and they never
knew what peace was again nat
night:
He started out again with q terrific
"Gn-r-r-r-tn
That opened every eye in the car
We all hoped it was an accident, how
ever. and hoping he wouldn't do II
again. we all forgave him. Then he
blasted our hopes and curdled the
sweet serenity Of our forgiveness by q
long drawn
"Gw-a-h-h-h-hah !"
That sounded too much like busl-
ness TO be accidental. Then every
head in that sleeepless sleeper was
held off the pillow for n minute, walt
ing i'm breathless suspense, 10 near
The worst. and the sleeper in lower
threeu went on, in long-drawn, regu-
lar cadences that Indicated good stay
ing qualities. C.huob,
Gahwah-wah Gahwa-a-ah ="
Evidently it was going to last all
might. and the weary heads dropped
back on the sleepless pillows, and the
swIaring. began. 1t mumbled along
In low muttering tones, like the DIS
ami echoes of a preface
storm. Pretty soon lower three
gave us a little variation. He shot oil
y spi.eiul
Cook /! :"
Which sounded as though his 8
had got mad at him and was going TO
strike. Then there was a pause, and
we began to hope he had either
awakened from sleep or strangled TO
death, nobody cared very particularly
which. But he disappointed every
body with a gutteral
"Gurooch :"
That nearly shot the roof off the
car. Then he went on playing such
fantastic tricks with his nose u
breathing things that would make the
immortal gods weep, II they ana Dut
hear him. 1t seemed a matter III
credible, it seemed an utter, preposte-
rous impossibility that any human
being could make the monsirous,
hideous noises with IFS breathing ma
chine that the fellow in "lower three"
was making with his. He ran through
all the ranges of the nasal gamut, he
went up and down a very chromatlc
scale of SHORES, he ran through intrl-
cate and fearful variations, until It
secuted that his nose must be u OF
ioint IN a thousand places. All the
night and all night through he told
his story.
"Gawoh guTrah! gu-r-r-r-h
Kowpf! Cow awwah gawah ! ga
wah-hah ! gwOck (! gawa-rt I! gwah-h-
hell whoOf!
just as the other passengers had
consulted together how they might
slSy him, morning dawned, and low
er number three" awOke. Everybody
watched the curtain to see what man
ner of man it was that had made that
beautiful sleeping. car a p"andemonium
Presently the toilet was completed
the curtains parted. and clover mum.
Der three" stood revealed.
Great heavens
1t was d fair young girl, with colder
hair, and timid. pleading eyes. like
haunted fawn's!