, 1885-02-01

Here he rested on a cane with one gloved
hand while the other hung limp beside
him, and looked, with the stupid air of
one Of the last figures in the 'Rake's
Progress down the avenue. He
wasn't an invalid. He was a
swell. A very short, very
fat and red-faccd man, who also wore a
fnock coat, a large cane, rpomy check
trousers, white overgaiters. and patent
leather boots. let himself tenderly out of
the door Of his brougham. which the
footman held open obsequiously, and
toddled toward the tall man. His eye
brows were raised, his mouth dropped,
and his shoulders were held forward. He
is one of the very great swells to be seen
driving on the avenue on Coaching Day.
The two came together.
low are you?" muttered the tall man,
listlessly.
Queer" answered the small man,
without the slightest particle Of life or
animation.
'Coldl' queried the tall man. looking
down at his boots and moving slowly
away.
Eyes, cold in the head" said the
smaller one as he toddled toward the door
Of the restaurant.
As the tall one moved off, he muttered
something which sounded like Try
q%uinine, and he was answered by the
slamming Of the restaurant door.
At this moment a young man who was
striding past the hotel at the rate of FIVE
miles an hour, felt somebody's umbrella
drop heavily on his hat and he wheeled
around, facing another young man. whose
most conspicuous features were n seven
inch mouth, a large cigar, a silk hat,
trousers, and a bob-tail coal. The men
men were similarly attired. were in the
vicinity Of forty years old collectively, and
were in high spirits. Each roared loudly
at the extraordinary witticism of hitting q
man on the top Of his hat with an UNI
brella, and the man with the cigar yelled;
"Ello. Petey; 'ow does she 'ead2'
Plumb to wiAdward, you %tarrier."
well, you know me-
'Betcher loft"
Ave a ball7'e
"Wm l? Well, just try it on, that's
all"
With which they seized each others
arms, executed n or two steps of a very
refined and elegant sort of reel. disap-
peared within doors, and us far as the
writer's observation goes they are there
yet.
Two women came struggling down the
venue against the wind, with color in
their cheeks and muffs in their hands. or
hands in their muffs. They wore square
toed walking boots, tight fitting cloth
dresses, and neat little bonnets, and each
was talking vivaciously to the other
neither, in the meanwhile, paying the
slightest attention to her companions re-
marks. A broad, cu~mbersomely draped
and extremely stout lady was coming up
the venue like 4 s2-tonner before the
wind, with all her sails set and a balloon
jib bellying out in front, and a little dried
up and shriyelled woman running along
side as tender. As the four women APP
preached they burst into four smiles, and
began to talk rapidly before they had got
within earshot Of one another. The 81
touner slowed nm and came ahout noso In
the wind and ali kissed shook hands and
eabbIed indiscriminatelv. Each talked N
questioned. answered. and passed obser.
yatious and remarks with every one else
in the party. and not one of them drew
breath or listened to n solitary word until
they broke away and disappeared in nairs
up and down the avenuc. The solitary
man under the morton of tho Fab Ave.
nue. hotel was with, thraa spos of them
and This was about what he heard
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A dude appearcd Ike a memen,o os
several seasons nvo wearing a Goht ton
coat that was chilling even 70 look mon