The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-25
Bound to Have q Seat,

train, walked down the aisle until he
came to me, and then he paused and
glared at a valise on the floor.
"Take away that valise," he said,
gruftiy, cor I'll put my feet on it,
:" Put your feet on it if you WISH" I
said, lit won't hurt your feet, I don't
reckon"
Down he went into the seat beside
me and up went his feet on the valise.
Presently the mud and snow on his
arctics began to melt and run down the
sides OF the valise in ugly little streaks.
The man from South Acton seemed to
take savage delight in scrapine his
feet around and making the havoc as
great as possible.
"TOllable nice valise," he presently
growled; " should think ye' d rather put
It away than have it tramped onto.''
"Good land" said, a little testify,
" I can't take charge of all the baggage
in the car. It's all can do to look
after my own.''
The man from South Acton stared at
me with q changing countenance as he
half lifted his feet.
Eye amt goin' to tell me this amt
your valise, be ye?'' he asked, anx-
ious1y.
"Of course it WASN'T said; ''would
I let any body ruin my valise in that
way?'
"Well, then," he wanted to know,
"whose in thunder was it?''
belonged to a gentleman who had
gone forward into the smoking car" l
said.
"And if he doesn't thump you when
he comes out" said the fat passenger,
cheerfully, "Tm most awfully fooled. ="
The South Acton man took his feet
off the valise and looked at it ruefully.
"Who is hep he asked, with visible
anxiety.
college chap said the tall, thin
passenger.
BOSS kicker in the Harvard football
team" said the sad passenger; ''has a
leg like boom derrick
II know him." said the passenger
with the sandy goatee, "he's raging
tornado of wrath when he's walked up. ="
bad man." said the fat passenger;
II don't want no business with him. "
The man from South Acton looked at
the valise with chances of concern and
apprehension, and then turned on me
somewhat Indignantly.
"Gaul durn ye," he said, with SUBJ
dued sniffle, while he took out his hand
kerchief and began repairs on the
valise, "Gaul durn We, why didn't ye
tell me this seat was occupied?''
Not possessing the physical powers
of the Harvard chap, meekly said:
because he didn't ask me. He only
said if I did not take away that valise
he would put his feet on it, and 1 told
him didn't care, and didn't
He growled and whirled alternately
while he ruined every handkerchief he
could find in his pockets cleansing and
polishing that valise, and every time
the car door opened he started nervous
ly and looked up to see if the " Kicker
was coming in. By-and-by, when the
valise was restored to its primitive neat.
ness, the fat passenger laughed, a
chuckling, smothered Kind of a laugh.
l bent over my tablet and scrubbed
away like mad. The passenger with
the sandy goatee said, .'Oh dear. oh
DEAR The tall thin passenger
whistled a bar from "The babies on
our block,'' and the sad passenger
looked out of the window and sighed
as though his heart would break.
The man from South Acton glared
around the car and light dawned in
his face.
"By gol," he said, "you fellows hez
been lynn to me, and know it,
And then the genial howl went up all
along the line, reaching the climax as
the man from South Acton gave saw
age kick at my innocent valise, and
slammed the door after him like fit of
wooden profanity as he got off the cars
at Waltham.
MORAL.
This would be a sad, dreary, desc
late world if there wasn't any fun in
it.-Burdette's Letter to Darlington
Havk-Eye.