The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-14
BORROWED BAGGAGE.
CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK. I

CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK.
Cyrus had scarcely comprehendcd the
extent of this misfortune, when there was
& knock at tho door, and there entered
Heiskrl, Seymour, aud little Mycs. They
had just got in from walk in the country;
had capital dinner about four o'clock, and
were now here to go to work, they said,
after an afternoon of play. In order to
prove this assertion, they each lighted
pipe, and seated themselves around the
room with their feet upon the highest arti-
Gle of furniture that they could reach.
"What is the matter with Cy?" said
little Myles. "What makes him 80 quiet
and why is he sitting here with the room
all full of the shades of evening, like mis-
crablc tomb ?"
Cyrus made some joking answer and ris-
ing, lighted the gas. After considerable
talk and general chatting, Heiskill proposed
that the big table be cleared and that they
should go to work.
"You're professor tonight, Seymour, you
know, and try not to ask any questions you
cant answer yourself"
Then let him stick to the spinal column"
said little Myes. II don't want him ask
ing me to articulate a hemcrus and ibula
again"
''Oh, you needn't bother about who's to
be demonstration !" said Cyrus. eve can't
do any anatomy tonight The skeletons
gone!'
In order that the foregoing conversation
may be understood, it may be well to state
that these young men had clubbed together
to buy an articulated skeleton; upon which
they rubbed up their anatomical knowledge,
each of the party acting in turn for an even
ing as professor" and asking questions Of
the others. This skeleton was kept in
long yellow packing.trunk, and the hack
man had taken it off with Miss Birch to
the hotel. There was no reason why he
should not have taken it, for it was near
the door, and was, indeed, the only trunk
visible upon first entering. Cyrus was so
landlady, that he did not notice the mis-.
take.
OF course, with three such very eager
and amazed inquirers as to the whereabouts
of their common property, there was moth
ing to be done but to tell, under promise
Of strict secrecy, the whole story. 1t was
received with unbouuded applause, and the
joke was considered far moro enjoyable
than any studying Of anatomy could posi-
bly, prove. When the laughter had sub
sided, Heiskil asked Cyrus what he intended
TO do
"Why, I'll have to 60 around in the
morning and explain that the wrong trunk
was taken (of course l shan't tell her what
is in it), and then I'll have to get that Bill
again TO drive her and it to the Baltimore
depot, and instead Of leaving the trunk he
must bring it back here. l hate the plan,
for it not only gives trouble, but makes a
lot of trickery about the young lady that
don't like. And was going to send down
my books SO nicely Confound that
man.
do you think she'll open it in her room 2
said little Myles:
OF course not, you blockhead, snapped
Cyrus. 'She hasn't the key and besides,
do you suppose she would open my trunk if
she had?'
The most astonishing surmises now en-
sued as to what would happen if so and so
should be so and so, and when no possible
could be added to what had been already
laughed over, they descended to puns.-
Some good and some very bad ones were
made, and poor little Myles, after cudgeling
his brains for the whole period of punning
time; finished the performance by wishing
to goodness that the man had been named
Cohen when he was alive, so that some
thing might be said about a 'truncatcd cone
Nothing was bad enough to follow this, and
80 they got out tho cards.
The next morning Cyrus dressed himself
in his best, aud actually wcno to his washer
womans house to get,,a white vest,' if by
chance it was doue. 1t was about halfpast
ten when he reached the hotel, and the
clerk told him that Miss Birch had gone.
Gone = Dried Cyrus. where could sho
have gone 80 soon r
The clerk looked very hard at him, and
replied, slow do know where she went 2
However, after Cyrus had explained how
he had intended calling on this young lady
before she left for Baltimore, thus proving
that he was properly aware OF her destina.
ton, tho clerk informed him that sho had
loft in compony with an elderly nentlemap