Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-27
HE WAS "CROUTY."0
Ticket Seller Who Was Strangely DIsoblisin3
and Cross.

and Cross.
A writer in the Boston Transcript
himself n ticket-seller. reports scene
which he witnessed not long ago while
seated in the Office OF large railway
station. The 11:40 train was about due
to leave when two women hurried up
to the window. and the taller OF them
called for two tickets to C. Tho
man at the window took them out Of
the case and as usual called out the
price-sixty cents.
The tall woman stopped her search
of her purse, and looked up in amaze
ment.
"Sixty centsr'
'Yes'm. and you'll have to hurry IL
you want to catch this next train"
II didn't think the price was so
much as that
1.-The tickets are thirty cents each"
ooh. of course" she said, with
sigh OF relief; 'but l only want one"
''Excuse me- said the agent,
thought you asked Tor two"
''ies, but the other lady will pay
for hers"
The agent said nothing. though he
might have said that he could hardly
have been expected to know that the
customer who called for two tickets
was to pay for only one Of them.
BY the time the transaction was
completed. it was past 1l40, but the
train had not gone. The two women
left the window, but Immediately
came back again, out OF breath.
Are these excursion ticLets?"
they cried.
"No"
"Oh, but we wanted excursion
tickets"
"Then give fifteen cents moro, each
OF you, and l will change your
tickets"
One OF the women, in her hurry,
dropped her purse and spent several
seconds in picking up the scattered
change. Before she had found her
fifteen cents the train drew out of tho
station. ~
''The train has gone"' Frantically
exclaimed the short woman.
When is the next train for CO"
asked her companion.
"At 1850"
"Oh! OH" cried the short woman.
'Now, you see. we've got to wait
here an hour and ten minutes just be-
cause you didn't give US the right
tickets" said the tall woman, glaring
at the ticket seller.
II beg your pardon, l gave yon
| what you called for"
''Of course we wanted to como
back"
"But didn't know it."
''Did you suppose we wanted to
live there forever?" asked the short
woman.
ut is hardly my place to suppose
at all. madam; 1 must give people
what they ask for"
II shouldn't mind your stupidity il
we didn't have to wait here more than
an hour on account OF it," 4
With this they turned their backs
and flounced away. ~
MADAM" cried the agent after the
tall woman. you've left your
change"
And SO she had. In her excitement
she had left four dollars and eighty
five cents upon the window-shelf, to
be pocketed by the first passer. She
did not even thank the man for calling
her back.
A few minutes later the writer OF
the sketch passed near the two women
In the waiting-room.
What grou:y fellow that ticket
agent was"' he heard the tall one say.
EYES," answered the other. 'ticket
agents are all alike. never could
understand why they are always 50
disagrceable.
1t was no wonder they were pro
voked; but it does seem little strange,
as the teller of the story remarks,
'.that the ticket-seller-the only one
of the three who had not made mis-.
take. and who had not lost his temper,
and the only one who had been civil.
should in the end have been called
grouty and disagreeable."
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