The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-10-05
1HE IRAvELlNe Hoe.
How 1t Behaves itself When Sharing It's
Bed with a Feilow-Traveler.


Bed with a Fenow-TraveIer.
The hotel register lay Hospitality
open, aud took up suffering pen
with which to splatter my autograph
over the list of late arrivals.
..I'n afraid we're full. y interrupted
the night clerk; ''that is if you want a
room TO yourself you can have bed
in either 81 or 52.n
My jaw fen-ll l-lll
What kind of fellows are they" !
inquired, feebly.
Nice gentlemen tall, slim man in
%; short, fleshy man in 81
Tall slim man. unused; ''Tll try
in No. 27.n
TIM rather long and slender myself.
still there's nothing like economy in
space when it comes to hotel bed
stcad.
1 followed the bell-boy up to No. 27,
and in response to his rat-tat-tat ut the
door. heard emphatic cultural inter
| jections mufled under the bed-clothes.
/ didn't try to understand them; l had
reason to believe they were not Mt all
complimentary to me. However, the
tall man opened the door, gingerly.
/ and got back into bed, where he
assumed the shape OF a gigantic let
ter V.
He was snoring loudly by the time l
had undressed, and l cherished serious
intentions of blowing out the gas and
| leaving him to his fate. l crawled
timidly in on the off side, and grasped
the covers with death grip. But ]
was tired, and soon, with half-con-
scious sense of insecurity, l felt my
grasp weaken, and l dozed off into q
gentle slumber.
a movement on the part of my bed
fellow awole me, and horrors! The
covers were slipping away Is there
any thing to compare to the utter help
lessness with which a man, on cold
night, realizes this awful sensation?
i caught at them, franticaily, and my
eyes bulged out in a mad despair as 6
Borean lraught walled along the ser
rated edge of my spinal column. Thu:
lay, for hours, in half torpid state
heenly alive to his every move. ye
unable to retrieve an inch Of vantage
The clock on the customs-house strucl
twelve, and l was sinking into chilly
nightmare. when the fieud rolled owe
against me with n restfI Sigh born o
warmth and comfort.
l couldn't stand it. I slipped on
| onto the floor, crept round to the foo
/ of the bed. and crawled in on the sid,
next the wall. Wrapping myself il
the voluminous folds of the blankets,
lay down. sincerely hoping he'd roI
on into the next county.
But he didn't. / hadn't been asleel
more than an hour. when awolze witt
/, a sense of oppression in my left side
, and a sharp elbow, at an acute angle
lay imbedded in my complaining ribs
E showed it away savagely. and h
1 ioundered over like a porpoise i
shoal water, taking the covers wit
: him.
1 At that moment heard the bell-boy
with belI-boy's exaggerated attemT
' at caution. blunder past the door an
y rap at No. %.
Its four O'Clock, sir; bus'lI be roun
) in forty minutes
: i got mp, too, lighted the gas an
e glared at my prosecutor. He was lyin
west by nor west Of the bed, smiling q
!. if he dreamed nature had made him /
4 a circle And he continued TO smil,
y all unconsciously, as washed in
n lavish quantity of water and poure
the remainder into the slop basini An
l think l had the towel as limp an
e wet as any towel ever need be outsid
' the wash-tlb! And when / left Ii
4 room the gas-meter was humping /
Il self. the door was wide open, and II
d pretty certain that some body else tina
/ No. % got TO see how a hog slepti-
II Detroit Free Press.