Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-04-09
StlttttO Storp.
IN A STREET CAR.

Jim Mallory caue swinging on = hsli
run round the corner 10 catca an uptown
car. A 5ed car" his friend Saxon had
told him; and there il went iu', speed out
of sigh, Just as he came 10 view of it..
An eastward wind wss blowing, as it
generally is blowing in Boston, and Jim
Mallory sbiyered, and sueezed. and drew
up his coat collar, while be mathematical
the Hue OF the Universe aud her east
winds. ss a Gothami.e was bound to do.
Presently, what with the dust in his eyes
aud the we.l-known delightful regularity
10 tha, city, jim got turned round, As
the country folk say. sul tJg "a few min
u,es couldn't tell tor ,hc lie Of him Taich
was uptown and which was downtown.
"Contound the plsce." he began, when
all at once it seemed as il al the cars in
toe ci;g suddenly appeared. There they
were, red cars and green cars and blue
cars. bearing down upon him in swift
confusion he hailed tue first aud shouted
where be wanted 10 20. The driver
shook MS head and pointed backward in
q mos, definite insaacc, and there sere
SIX cars behind him.
He hailed ;be sec5ad. and Went through
the same humiliA,ing experience lie
hailed .re ,hird, be hailed the fourth, auG
a. a. once came his senses AZ the fifth,
aud discovered ihat they were every one
going ,te wrong way, and himself all
OF the way ON the wrong rect. He
breathed 81 exclamation more emphatic
than polite, suJ dssbed through to Tfe-
mon, street Just in time to catch the car
he was after. jim was a haHdsome TEL
low ordinarily, bu, you never would hsve
suspected it Row. To begin with be had
a cold 10 bis head; and Tor
y cold IN the head
Whist can be said
Usler, stupider, more Il.breds
Being blonde man, TOO, made it
worse, as every blonde, be they man or
woman, can testify; for flushed aud
swollen eyelids and excoriated nostrils
show 20 most dismal disadvantage be-
side blondes "hair OF lv..J, Or beard
OF gold" And then the thin tissues. the
light skin, which evinces every dissr-
rangementi We'll. besides a cold in the
head, Jim Mallory was covered with dust
from his head 10 his feet. Then, because
of the cold in his head, he had drawn his
coat collar up around his ears. and be-
cause OF 9 general uncomfortable eondi-
ton. he mad drawn mis- shoulders nearly
up 10 his ears. And then something had
happened to his hat. l don't know what
IL was. he didn't know what it was, or
be wouldn't have sat there right in the
the face OF those five girls, looking like
such q guy, without trying to remedy it..
Ii was something between a crush and 8
twist, which taken together with his gen
ersl mutfy appearance, gave him the as
pect OF q tJrlo-u ani ssedg old te!loS Y al
odds wilh himself aud with the world -
This vas climax for young man who
led of the German in Ayenuedom. and
who was spoken OF usually by sill
feminine AvenuedUm as so diStiRgUe." >"
And there -. those iive girls without q
-r,aoiqi,r NJ those l-efs in his history
Five girls, as pretty es girls need to be,
laughing and cbsttering !ike-like-weli
ike tive girls. dOu', itIuk there IS any
comparison that will serve as we'll as that,
sitter all. There they SAT, laughing and
ebattering. perfectly needless OF the for
Iorn and seedy old fellow doubled up 10
the opposite corner. Such things as he
fouad out. For there was nobody else in
The car bu, another forlorn and seedy old