The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-24

have exchanged places with the yeriest
Dude that ever VII c | a cane or twis
ted a muStache.
At length the carriage sol ped 10 froi {
OF DR.. Evoriu' office. aud xe stepped out.
assembled a flight o. steps. rsug the bell
AID when the vi was opened | bowed
and Saii, 'How are you - day. Dvct.,2
| held out my hand. but on looking more
closely, | found that instead OF the Deu-
tlst, | was trying to shake hand with a
ginger-cake .colored ofhce-buy. hope
she didn't see this, but | believe HE dad,
for when | looked around at her she was
turning on into the waiting room aud
there was a mIschievous twink e IN tho1e
brown eyes, which again upset my equa
nlmlty nj | ever bad any, managed
somehow to tell her I'd BE- around 10 time
TO take her to the depot, and left to at
tend 10 some purchases With which | had
been entrusted. ] Went into a large dry
goods establishment near by, but couldn't
remember, 10 save, a single thing that |
was told 70 buy. Ny mind was filled with
dentistry. and my thoughts wandered TO
that dentist office so frequently that |
couldn't thInk OF anything else. And the
first thing | knew | found myself calling
for a pair Of ''pullikius' and some laugh
Ing-gas. The clerk smiled and told me
Id better 90 to a hardware store for the
one aud perhaps | could find the other at
a drug store. This brought me 10 my
senses and | managed after a fashion to
tell him what | wanted which consisted
mainly of "women's fxings. While |
was making selections, another clerk came
up and said, Hello, old teller, are you of
on a tour = What sort of tour, said l..
wv ny a wedding tour, to be sure, said
he; Il saw you on the train with a
young lady. this evening, and you looked
KIND o. Mustered like something unusual
had happened | turned red in the face
and stan mered and pretty soon every
clerk IN the establishment collected around
me M commenced snIckering. | felt dis
susted and LETT determined never to do any
more trading IN hat house. went to
another store and bought TIE articles sent
for and spent the balapce Of the evening
walking up and iown TO the side walk n
front OF the dentists office. At the
appointed time, the carriage came up, aud
We started for the depot at thai interest
ing hour when daylight is just fading
into night. The surroundings were in
spring and | made one more effort to re-
deem myself IN the estimation of the
Young LADY, but | fear | made mighty
poor progress.
When we got TO the depot we found
that the train in backing up to the station
had got off the track and we we're told
that there would be 4 delay of about one
hour. This TO most men would have
been welcome news, but TO me, a bashful
man, it had its terrors. The atmosphere
In the waiting room seemed to become
sitting, the persplratlon began to flow
RELY again.
There are some qualities ia human ma
ture that cant be accounted for. 1t is
said hat Lieutenant Greedy and Sergeant
Brainerd are anxious to lead another eX
petition in search of the North Pole,
Notwithstanding their late terrible exp
rience. Just SO | was anxious to get aways
from that room, although 10 less thar
five minutes | should have been anxious
to come back.
| paid FIVE different visits to the train
to see what progress they were making in
getting it back on the track. On my
fifth visit when ] made some enquiries as
TO no long it would take them to get
ready to start, a little Teller with a blue
Jacket on, said, "Look'ee here. sir
are you the Superintendent ofthis road 2"
| told him, no | wasn't, but if | was, I'd
discharge any set of hands that didn't
know any more about their business than
they did. This seemed to rile him some
what, and | concluded I'd better 20 back
and the sitting atmosphere of that room
and risk the dangerous light from those
eyes again.
At length, about 9 o'clock the train
backed up to the station and we hurried
TO get aboard. | helped the young lady
10 the platform of the car and then got
up myself and opened the door and found
it was a sleeping car, and told her we'd
better get down and get on another coach.
She said, "Oh, no only half of this
coach is a sleeper; the other end is used
for passengers. We can just go through
to that end" | told her, mo, | thought
we'd better get off and go around to the
other end" She solved the difficulty by
leading the way through, and of course |
had 10 follow, but, tell you, | felt nigh
ty gudre. When she got seated, depos
tied that bandbox, ETC., on a seat and
held out my hand and said. Good bye"
She took it and said, I'm very thankful
for yOur Kindness This made Inc feel
''all-ovel-ish,' and Pm not certain what
reply | made, but to the best of my recol-
lection, | said, I'm much oJleeged to
ye," then plunged headforemost out Of
the car door, knocking over a brakeman
in my exit and never stopping until | had
run about one hundred yards. | then
stopped, and unbuttoned my vest and
after cooling awhile proceeded to my
room am got before a window and famed
myself until midnight. when reaction set
in, and from then till day, | declare to
goodness, | thought | should freeze.
Next morning ! started home, feeling like
| had gone through a spell of typhoid
fever, and found when | got there that |
weighed just 6! lbs. less than l did when
[ started on that trip.
PHILO SoPHER.