The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-18
SMART ALECKS.
New tho Old Lady Got Even with Dudes
Who Made Fun OF Son Of Toll.

Hsw tho Old Lady Got Even with Dudes
Who Made Fun OF n Son Of Toll.
One day last week hill car was COM
ing down and stopped where gang Of
!aborors had taken up an old rail and
were laying down new steel one.
Half hundred were at work with
picks, shovels and iron bars, and tho !
Car had to stop until rail was laid,
and the passengers were impatient. 1t
was about noon, and the laborers were
tired, and many of them looked long.
ingly to the tin pals under the shade of
trees on the sidewalk, and perhaps they
did not work as earnestly as they did
earlier in the day. 1t was the usual
crowd Of passengers, old and young,
rich and poor. Among them were a
couple of smart young fellows who do
not have to work, and whose life is
spent IN dressing and undressing. hold
ing canes, etc. Another passenger was
an old German lady, with neat white
handkerchief tied over her head, and a
tin pail on the seat beside her that
smelled of onions. She had sweet old
face, that was as kindly as ever was
seen. The passengers were watching
the men work, and were looking at
their watches nervously, when the two
young fellows began to make comments
on the slowness of the laborers
''Look at the fellow with the blue
shirt" said one of tho dudes HE
raises the pick in the air, balances it
and then lets it drop of its own weight
Then he stops and waits for the pick to
raise itself up again"
''See the one with brown overalls,
leaning on his shovel, waiting for the
millennium" said the other.
The old lady hitched nervously on
the seat and looked disguised at the
young fellows, and it was evident she
had a friend among the laborers, to
whom she was bringing the dinner.
She looked out of the window so sweet.
ly as her old man, with a crOwbar in
his hand, looked up at her. The tired
look all went out of his face when he
saw the smile of "mudder," and it was
evident they had journeyed up and
down the hill of life together for more
years than the dudes had lived
"Observe the old coon with the crow
bar" said one of the fellows. "He is
slowing up for the banquet that will
shortly be spread under the UNI
brageous elm hard by, and he does not
wish to ruin his appetite for the spread
by undue exercise before eating. Let's
invite ourselves to lunch with them
ehp"
NAV, thanks, have previous en-
gagement said the other. Though l
would like to join you in discussing the
terrapin and broiled chicken and
shrimp salad that he will be compelled,
all alone, to stow away under his
wamus. Some other day will lunch
with you and your friend of the crow
bar. But hush, bark, a deep sound
strikes like rising knell. It is tho
twelve o'clock whistle, and see them
drop the tools and make for the shade
on the sidewalk, as though they were
afraid of working second too long"
BY this time the old lady was pretty
mad and she turned to the young men
and sad: II guess you never work
Iuiu CuufCl ID UlCk, IOI II
dollar and quarter day, dit you?
you never git up at wife over six
o'clock in the morning, and take Cup
of coffee and little plack bro'd, aud &c
work. Of you dit you hat more sym.
pates NIT dem mems"
The young fellows felt ashamed, and
blushed, and all the passengers looked
glad because the old lady had shu
them up. They made one mistake
however. They laughed at the old
lady in an impudent sort of way. She
had talked pleasantly, as though sh'
felt hurt before, but now, after the,
laughed at her, she looked spunky. Sh,
got up to 90 out of the car. and open
ing the tin pail, she took out an onior
in one hand and q piece of ancien
cheese in the other, and, putting tn
onion up to the nose of one dude ant
the cheese to the nose of the other, sht
said:
''You want to attend de banquet mi
my oft man, Ell. Veil, shmell dot
How you Ike dot banquet? He hat
banquet like dot every day ven he ge
work to do, NIT black bro'd, but ven h
not get work he only hat black bro''
und small piece sausage. You max
fun NIT my hard working oft nan, an,
he break you in pieces and trow yo
out de window, you little fools you,i
and the old lady took her pail and wen
out, and the car started. She went u
to her husband and said: Her
ladder, bring you dinner" and the
she talked German to him, and hi
eyes followed the car, and his hand
clenched, and he looked as though h
would like to mop the floor with tn
smart boys, and it was the opinion Q
the passengers that if the car had nc
got away just as it did he would hav
done so, and the dudes looked a
though they were in luck that their tai
had got them into no worse scrapt
They soon left the car, and with hant
kerchiefs wiped imaginary cheese an
onion from their faces, and 1t is b.
lieved by those who witnessed the OF
currence that they will smell that lunc
for a month. Served them right
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