Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-25
A Railway Conversations.

Burlington Harkeye, has the following
letter in his last paper
The last time ran home over the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy We
had o very small but select and enter
tanning party on the train. 1t was q
warm day. and everybody was tired
with the long ride and oppressed by
the heat. The precise woman, with her
hat swathed in an immense blue veil.
who always parsed her sentences before
she uttered them, utterly worn out and
thoroughly lonesome. was glad to re-
spond to the pleasant nod of the big
rough man who got on at Monmouth,
and didn't know enough grammar to
ask for the mustard SO that you could
tell whether he wanted you to pass it to
him or pour it on his hair. The thin,
troubled-looking man with the sandy
goatee, who stanmered so dreadfully
that he always forgot what he wanted
to say before he got through wrestling
with any word with wv" in it, lit up
with a tremulous, hesitating smile as
he noticed this indication of sociability,
for like most men who find it extremely
difficult to talk ut all, he wanted to talk
| I'LL Lue tlLuCs anu tuC lht Oltl RcuLl0-
man sitting opposite him, who was so
deaf he couldn't hear the cars rattle,
and always awed and bothered the STAN
merer into silence by saying "Hey?' in
a very imperative tone, every time he
got in the middle of hard word, cooked
his irascible head on ono side as no saw
this smile, and after listening intently
to dead silence for minute, suddenly
broke out with such an emphatic, i'm
patient "Hey?" that everybody in the
car started mp and shouted, nervously
and ungrammatically, ~ didn't say
nothing r. with the exception Of the
woman with the blue veil, who said, II
said nothing"
The fat old gentleman was little an
noyed and startled by such chorus of
responses. and fixing his gaze still more
intently upon the thin man, said, def
antly, "Wha' say ?"
"I-I.I / w-w-wuh- wuh wuh- wasn'-
WASN'T WASH s-s-sp-speak-"
Hey ?" roared the fat man.
"Hs want sayin' nauthin'," shouted
the big rough man, nodding friendly
encouragement to the thin man " he
hsint opened his MOUTH
"Soap in the South p queried the
fat old man, impatiently. "Wha' for ?"
"Mouth, mouth" explained the pre-
else woman, with impressive nicely,
HE said opened his mouth The
gentleman seated directly opposite you
| was--''
"Offers to chew what?' cried the
fat old gentleman, in amazement.
"Sir," said the precise woman, II
made no reference whatever to chew
ing. You certainly misunderstood me. "
The thin man took courage from so
many reinforcements, and broke in, "I-
Ill d d-d.dud-dud-dud-do don t-dont, I
don't ch.ch. CHI"
"Hey?" shouted the fat gentleman.
"He don't chaw nauthin'!' reared the
big rough man, in voice that made
the car windows rattle. He want q
talkin' when you shot off Mt him"
"Who got ofl?" exclaimed the fat old
gentleman; "wha' d. lie get off for?"
You do not appear to comprehend
clearly what he stated" shrieked the
precise woman. mo person has left
the train"
"Then wha' d. he say so for p shout
ed the fat man.
"OhT said the thin lnan, in sur.
prising burst Of fuency, "He-he-he d.
d-did did"
"Who did" queried the fat man,
talking louder than any one else.
Mum num- num- mum n nO-nobody
nobody. He lie d.d.d-dud-didnt didn'
didn't s."
Then wha' made you say he did ?"
hoWled the deaf man.
"You misunderstood him." inter-
rupted the precise woman "he was
probably about to remark that no refer
once whatever had been Intentionally
made to the departure of any person
from the train. when you interrupted
him in the midst of an unfinished SEN
tence, and hence obtained an erroneous
impression of the tenor of his remarks.
He meant no offense-"
"Know fencep roared the fat man,
"of course I know fence!"
He hain't got middlin' good hear
in" yelled the big rough man, as apol-
ogetically as q steam whistle could
have shrieked it; years kind of stuffed
upwm
man "wha' for?"
"No," shrieked the precise woman !;
che remarked to the other gentleman
that your hearing appeared to be rather
defective p
His father detective!" hooted the
fat gentleman in amazement.
"N-n.n-n' nun.nun-no u broke in the
thin man Observation-Disclosures SIS. 50.
said-said you w-w-wuh-was little dud
dud-was little deaf -
"Said was thief |" howled the fat
man, q scarlet tornado of wrath, "said
was thief? VIVA dye mean? Show
him to me! Who says I'm thief Who
says so?"
Now" shouted the big rough man,
nobody don't say ye amt no thief. I
jest sayed as how we didn't git along
very we'll. Ye see he," nodding to the
thin man, che can't talk very we'll,
an"
"Wh-wh-wh-why cant he t.t-t-tut
tut-tut'talk?" broke in the thin man,
white with rage. I-I-I-I'd like tito
know wh-wh-wh- what's the reason / c.