San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-25
A SUNDAY OUT.
The Travelling Girl With a Tailor
made Dress-In Search of Fos-
siIs-Nu InterrunteI Rafb

The Travelling Girl With Tailor
made Dress-In Search of Fos-
sils-An Interrupted Bath.
Early Sunday morning, before the
sun had brought daylight into the
old Alamo City and while the man
who was struck with a chair the pre-
vious night at the convention, was
diligently applying soothing poul-
tees and plasters, two scribes wend-
ed their way towards the 1. and G. n,
only stopping long enough to partake
of chilli stand breakfast.
Arriving at their destination after
mad race to catch the train, the con-
selling information was obtained that
owing to wreck in the yards, the
north bound train would not leave for
the next two hours and half.
In the long meantime the car began
to fill with stragglers and pretty
girl with tailor-made suit took her
seat in full, unobs.ructed view OF the
scribes. She was pretty girl slight
ly past her teens, with full, smiling
face and dressed in becoming suit,
consisting of q skirt, rather tight
filing coat. linen mans shirt, reg
ular standing collar and fashion
able mans tie. She was good
looking girl, only while the seat hid
her waist, which was as slim as a
lead pencil.
At length the track was cleared of
the wreck and the train moved on
through the beautiful scenery that
cnaracterizes West Texas. The low
grassy little hills that are abundant
within short distance of the city are
replaced by the rough, shrub covered
hills farther beyond. Then for
short distance the beautiful cedars
take the place of the bare mesquite
and so the change in topography and
vegetation continues ali along the
road from San Antonio to New Braun
fels.
The only important stop between
here and that town was at an un
godly little place called Davenport.
Here few people and five kegs of
San Antonio beer got off the train.
Almost every store in the place was
open and almost every citizen of the
place was in the stores, watching for
what they might empty at that place.
Arriving at New Braunfels, imme-
diate search for fossils, not among
the good people of this town, but in
the creeks, was made. From one
creek to the other, until the swift
Guadalupe and beautiful Comal had
been thoroughly explored.
When the fossil hunting scribe con-
cluded that he had found enough
specimens, we stole through the corn
fields down below the great Comal
dam and tested the icy waters of the
stream. After few splashes in the
water, one of the scribes was remind
ed that it was train time, and just
then whistle and bell ringing an
nounced the arrival of the iron horse.
A few minutes, and the scribes,
in full dress and light
spirits were seen running down the
streets of this lonely German village.
Upon reaching the depot they were
informed that what they had heard
was freight train and the passenger
was Just one and q half hours late
again.
At last the train pulled up and off
through the same beautiful scenery
and over the finely ballasted /. and
G. n. road, they passed, homeward
bound, arriving here too late for din
ner and too early for supper, but con-
fident that they had discovered the
secret of how to knock out dyspepsia
in the first round.