The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-03-31
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"Take away that valise,n he said,
grufly, "or I'll put my feet on it."
ePut your feet on il if you wish"
] said. ~ won't hurt your feet, l
don't reckon
Down he went into the seat beside
me and up went his feet on the va.
Isle. 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 a savage de-
light in scraping his feet around and
making the havoc as great as posi-.
bic.
"Tollable nice valise,n he present
ly growled; "should think ye'd rath,
or put il away than have it tramped
onto.'
"Good land" | said, alittle testify,
81 can't take charge Of all the bag
gage in the car. It's all i can do to
look after my own"
The man from South Acton stared
at me with a changing countenance
as he half lifted his feet.
aye amt goin' to tell me this amt
your valise, be ye?' he asked anx-
iously.
"Of course it wasn't" Isaid; "would
Ilet anybody ruin my yalise in that
way2"
"Well, them" he wanted to know,
"whose in thunder was it2"
belonged to q gentleman who had
gone forward into the smoking car"
! said.
"And if he doesn't thump you
when he comes out" said the fat
passenger, cheerfully, "Tm most aw-
fully fooled"
The South Acton man took his
feet of the valise and looked at it
ruefully.
"Who is he2" he asked, with Wis
ible anxiety.
college chap" said the tall, thin
passenger.
'Boss kicker in the Harvard foot
ball team" said the sad passenger
"has leg like a boom derrick"
II know him." said the passenger
with the sandy goatee, "he's a raging
tornado Of wrath when he's walked
up"
"Bad man." said the fat passenger;
~ don't want no business with him."
The man from South Acton looked
:atthe valise with glances of concern
and apprehension, and then turned
on me somewhat Indignantly.
"Gaul durn ye," he said, with a
subdued sniffle, while he took out
his handkerchief and began repairs
on the valise, "Gaul durn We, why
didn'tye tell me this seat was occu-
pied?"
Not possessing the physical pow.
ers of the Harvard chap, l meekly
said: Because he didn't ask me-
He.only said if l did not take away
that valise he would put his feet on
it, and told him didn't care, and
i didn't"
He growled and whirled alternate.
ly, while he ruined every handker-
chief he could find in his pockets
cleansing and polishing that valise,
and every time the car door opened
he started nervously and looked up
to see if the Kicker" was coming in.
By-and-by, when the valise was re.
stored to its primitive neatness, the
fat passenger laughed, a chuckling,
smothered kind of a laugh. bent
over my tablet and scribbled away
like mad. The passenger with the
sandy goatee said, 20 dear, O DEAR
The tall thin passenger whistled a
bar from "The babies on our block u
andth 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 l know it."
And then the genial howl went up
all along the line, reaching the climax
as the man from South Acton gave a
savage kick at my innocent valise,
and slammed the door after him like
fit of wooden profanity as he got of
the cars at Waltham.