The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-20
Going to Sleep in the bay Coach.

Going to Sleep in the bay Coach.
1t was not Mr.. Dinkleman's fault that
he was tall man, and in fact, under or
binary circumstances he was very proGd
of his figure. But one night last week
he came down from Chicago to Burling-
ton, and couldn't get any kind of show
in the sleeper, and one seat all to hin
self was the best they could do for Inn
in the day car. But he was wearyaD
the same and had to sleep. So he
slowed away his valise and preparedto
| slumber. ~
He made very elaborate preparations,
several times, before he could setthlngs
fixed to suit him.
First he just thrust his fee' out hall
way across the aisle and pDowed his
weary head on the window sill. That
was very comfortable. But.n minute
or two a woman walked down the aisle
and fell over his feet ami screamed;
then child came along and fell over
the feet and cried; the1 a man-came
along, stumbled over theieet and swore,
and Just as Mr.. Dinklman was begin
ming to hope the procession was all by,
the brakeman came cushing along, he
stumbled over the projecting feet, made
one short, unrevised lemark, turned up
and gave the nearest foot a kick that
made every lost soul aboard that car
draw in his breath and shudder and
shrek i" aou- ou-ow!" and then he said
to Mr.. Dinkleman: "Now hold out the
other one"
But Mr.. Dink,eman said nothing.
He could only hold that foot up by the
ankle, hold it high in the air with both
hands, while he swayed back and forth,
held his mouth wide open and wished
for a broken bridge, an open switch, or
an accident policy.
Then when the cessation of his agony
allowed him to feel sleepy again, he
buckled himself up into the shape of the
letter N, with his knees braced against
the back of the seat in front of him. his
feet hanging down, his body erect, and
his head drooping over the back OF the
seat. But both his feet got sound
asleep long before he did, and when he
stood up he fell down and all the pas
sengers shook their heads, the men
laughed sardonical laughs, the women
said, ''what a shame; such a nice, re-
spectacle looking man, too" and the
man on the wood-box unfeelingly said
'stoo much booze" And his hat fell
off into a seat behind him and the man
on that seat put his feet in it and spit all
over it before Mr.. Dinkleman could find
it. Clearly that was no way to sleep.
Then he curled up in his seat like a
dog on rug, with his knees drawn up
to his chin, his head on the window sill
and his feet braced against the end Of
the seat. In about twenty minutes he
woke up with more aches in his legs and
body than he had hairs on his head. He
was 80 sore and stiff that it was ten min
utes before he could bend his elbows
enough to get his hands in his pockets to
get his ticket, and the conductor got tired
waiting for him at last, and said sternly,
'sget off at the next station" and Mr.
Dinkelman could hear the passengers
saving "deadbeat" and "got the
bounce" and "served him right" Evi.
IDENTIFY, no man could sleep very long in
that posture and get home with any
kind of reputation.
Then he tried to sit straight up and
'hold his head up by clasping his hands
behind it, but when his hands gave way
his head fell back with a snap that came
so near breaking his neck he hasn't got
over it yet, and one of the passengers
asked him if he did that for fun or just
because he liked it. Then he leaned his
head down ON the back of the seat be-
fore him and dozed until he woke up
with crease in his forehead like the
brand of Cain. Then he lay down with
his head pillowed on the arm of the seat,
and the first man that walked down the
aisle jammed his head half way down
into his neck, and made him feel that
life was mockery. Then he sat up In
the seat facing the aisle, put his feet up
on the arm of the seat, leaned his head
against the window, and broke the glass
the first time the car lurched. Thirty
cents and cold in the head for that.
Having thus sampled all the positions
he could think of he spent the rest of the
night trying them, sometimes separate.
ly, and sometimes altogether, and when
ut last he got to Burlington his hair was
gray, his eyes were wild, he had to be
carried to his home on a stretcher, and
the doctors put him in mustard plaster
case right away, where he has lain ever
since. And If you don't believe it, try
an all-night ride in day coach yourself,
some time.-BuTIington HaUkeye.
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