The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-21
In a Hurry. EYchanRe.


 Waiting is tedious business, and whoever has been obliged often to stand in line at ticket office, savings bank, or elsewhere, must have noticed the varied attempts of impatient people to get in ahead of turn. Dr. Norman Macleod describes an anus ing scene of this sort on a steamer, where once a week, passengers were allowed to get baggage from the hold. A major was among the waiting crowd, and unfortunately for his peace of mind, his trunk was in full sight, lying on top of the pile of lug gage just under his nose. Why should it not be sent up at once?
 So, bending over the barricade, he said, in the softest and most persua- sive voice, to one of the sailors below |: "I say, my lad, look out therel Like good fellow hand me up that trunk that large, black trunk-be handy now!"
 "Your number, sir?" inquired the sailor.
 "Oh, hang the number" !" replied bAO tnC u uAh 16 GICIC-6Gc, that black one just beside you"
 But the sailor, paying no attention to request out of order, vanished in his search for others, the major looked round to the other passengers, very red in the face, exclaiming, "Well, upon my word! Did you ever see such insolence
 The same sailor again appeared, handing up bag and portmanteau to "Colonel So-and-So, No. 29."
 "What under heaven do you mean?" exclaimed the major. II say, sir, you fellow there! Attend attend, sir My trunk!w
 But the sailor again vanished. The major looked round for sympathy.
 ''I take you all to witness" he said.
 "My wife and children are thor oughly uncomfortable, and here in a British ship -"
 But another sailor appeared.
 "Jack!" he said. "Hiss! fiss! look here! I say you-that's good fellow just send me up that black trunk which -"
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 Mot your turn yet, sir"
 "Good gracious! It is at your feet that trunk-behind you-give me a hold of it! Now then-that trunk"
 The sailor, equally obedient to orders, disappeared, searching for some others.
 "Gentlemen p said the major, his face red with indignation, wiping his forehead, and opening his waistcoat, "since this world began, did you ever see such tyranny? and shall -"
 But third sailor appeared, and the major resumed in a more imperious key. "I say, you fellow, there de- mand that - 6lack - trunk - there! Merev Do you see it? Mere-that trunk. You have only -"
 "Your number, sir?"
 "I don't care fig about my num- Der, name, or anything! One minute will do it. Give-me-now -"
 The sailor replied, "I must obey orders, sir;;" and he, too, vanished into the darkness of the hold.
 Ane otner passengers, eager TOT there own luggage, were silent, and gave little heed to the major, who was bursting with excitement. His wife appeared, and touching him on the shoulder, suggested quietly that they could wait.
 You may, my dear," he cried, in tremendous indignation, "but I can- not! I cannot, indeed! Please keep those children from crying, will you, my love? Please do. I hate crying chi dren. Do let me attend to the luggage. It's an insolent swindle?"
 As he was about to appeal to me I made an excuse to go on deck, to get reliet in fit of laughter. About an hour later, I was glad to hear that the major had got his trunk. and was