Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-02

purple ard fne lima. I've danced attend
ance on the dear girls, have passed an
ethereal existence beE here I am a, the f-st
:. zhi Of the boys, &; the srst whid Of this
s;onsolirs ol4 veteran, relap.ed into
lneorrisible old bscheiorhood.
I'm ike that ane bloolei ~ horse g..
drives. He had q clerical boxing victim
alongside in the baggs Yesterday AID !
JUICE he was snds4yoriag 10 sell the cid
nag ard was expa;ating on its pedigree,
how it was sired BY Ho.lirg Harry. Is
out Of slippery Sal. : 10 oat Of the Jones
mare pedigree not traced back Of Bueeph-
sius. The electric cars were coming aloag
Just then, ard could see S. making moves
As If 10 curb the fiery stesd in case he should
fh1w sians % fear. Just thee the eoudae
tor rang lie signal to stop the csr Ehsn IS
horse came 10 sIa5ds'il 20 sui4enly
1s 70 Lc.rly throw the clerical friend
over the dashboard. s. struck the AM
mai ei;h the whip bat the oil fellow on,y
,,yanced up and down I'LL the conductor Of
he car along aide rang the starting signal
shen lie sprang forSard and was of At a
rafting pace. You see that old horse car
horse could no more forget the tricks he
had learned by dat Of hard experience
Than he couli that gram was better suited
to bis aged teeth than hay"
''Vtry likely the man ridirg in the buggy
not having his ewes open for tricks as you
s,e," remarked Sandy, you kcow there's
los Of truth yet left in that old saying Il;
r. quiTes knave 10 trap one maybe, say,
lie didn't for MON mt suspect bu: i. was
youthfuiness and os's that caused tie Old
nag TO act SIS be dill. Wbea a person can't
pck up VI line paper wi h u. finding one or
more accounts OF 4 bunc1 sharp Doing up
some we'll meahiug but innocent individual
he begins t. III nix IN res screw loose
in oar ci,,iized sgA Of real estate agents,
brokers' aud church fair lotteries.
Don. thir | mean ihit these inroccnt
and accomn odating individuals are slote
coinci1en with Dirigo's potatoes and pump
kins, no, sir. The worst specimen ever
saw was in Ci1c matt the last time | was
thc:e.
He hadn't been in the city more than half
an hour before he loaned p'casant, well
dressed Stranger 5:5 on the promise of the
lat er u return with the amount as soon as
he cashed check.
The Kentucky man waited patiently at
Fourth ard CeLttal avenues, but the
stranger came not In an hour the man
from the c)u1t bsclmc sli .htly uneasy
IN two hours he was actually suspicious in
three hours he wss convinced that he had
been duped. The $50 was all the mon }
he bat and he walked sadly back to TIE
Grand Central depot. where he related his
wrongs to Officer White. The tig copper
advised him TO 90 home before gone enc
borrowed his pants.
But | kyan't 20 home,' said Kentuck
1 amt no money to go on. I'm dead
broke
$50 up to the mayors Office advised q
sympathetic hackman; maybe he'll give
you free pass home If you sing Eil n,ce
song.
kentuck looked doub,fulIy at his cour-
seller, and medita,ed for ten minutes ~ he
walked up and do~n, squirting tobacco
juice rigat anil left.
Blamed if know what to do he r.
marked at last.
Better ID as l sail repeated the hack
man. Go up to the MAYOR, ting him E
nice song about your trouble, and he'll fix
you up Wild pass
Kentqck again transfxed his adviser with
IN eye of mstrust. Something was troub-
ing him be 81 les his loss. At last. with
heavy sigh and an inimitable hrawl he re
marked; Stranger, l kyan'i sing
Yes and people can make just as big
asses of themselves by beng all the time
convinced they're to be murdered and su.-
pieious of every person they meet fearing
they'll be robbed, remarked Ted who had
come in at the beginning. mikes me
think of one day in the Boston and Lowell
depot at Boston.