Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-09-17
HOLDING A SEAT.
Tribulations of "A Traveller and How The,
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evil you be kind enough to watch my
seat here and allow no one to get into il
while go into the smoking car and take
n smoke ?" asked the presumptuous pas
senger in the opposite seat of me.
What else could ! do but answer yes.
though had started out on pleasure eX-
cursion, and this mans condescension
quite knocked all the pleasure ont of the
trip at the beginning, ana now that fatal
seat lay on my mind like my last wear
debts-provided had some
AT the next station big man came in .
and, spying the only vacant seat pre-
empted il on the spot, and proceeded ia
make himself comfortable | sat n long
time considering how far my responsible
ty went but saw that | must do some.
thing, so | mildly whispered to him that
the seat belonged to another, and he
scowled and left at the next station, W here
some ladies got aboard. As last resort
| placed my new hat over in the seat to
preserve 1.-THE seat, not the hat-aud two
OF the females sat down on the hat They
dld not appear to notice the hat, or proba.
bly, thought it was the hustle, and began
to make themselves at home Itold them
as COully as ! could that the seat was orcit-
pied. hey siud of course it was. re-
marked that the owners hat was under
them. They obliteratpd me with n frown
and got mp the hat didn't get up its
get-up was gone. tried to straighteu
out the hat and felt sick, so did the hat I
INDUCED nwardly in some strengthv seen
lar language, ana soon a tall, long haired
fellow got aboard, whose pantalOons were
pOked into his boots to rest, and whose
shirt Nearned towards a wash tub, and
took the fatal seat without paying any at
tention to me waving him away.
mad to do it, though | sbudderpd |
l lstI f.. Ia IL Il
told him the seat belonged to another
man, when, all OF IA sudden, he jumped up
as II there was tack in the seat and gave
a regular Comanche howl, as | sat back
into my seat, wishing there was trap
door through the floor of the car
his seat belongs to another, does it ?
Where is the dutfer Where are his
symptoms Nothing here. Where are
his remains, his silk umbreller, his pea
nut shells his toback,r spit his chewing
gum shoes, his ful-collar ovtrcoat, hi, Is
cali Der Nalise and his eye-glaSs show
me, if you please, his assets, his liabii-
/ lles, his heirs, administrators or assigns
W here Is his mortgage, or his lien, or ~
years lease am CrOss-eyed Bill from
BrazOs Hnd he parenthiCiZed the name
with Il couple of long horn revolversD.
Are You the ozone, the canned fruit man
VINO Is trying preserve this seat for the
coming man, or the rising generation -
begged To grove an alIbl insanity, or
anything legal that was necessary or
| would 90 any good, aud begged him not
to mention it, when in came the former
occupant and asked the stranger shortly
TO get ont. The stranger got out, and the
owner OF the scat began to TAIL all over
himself, to explore the ceiling with his
feet, to test the floor. to unhaudle the
nclghburlng seats, and when the stranger
laid him gently down in the aisle and
spread him ont comfortably to rest, and