The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-08-11
ASLEEP ON THE BOX.
THE Interesting Experience Of an
Empire City Jehu.
He Tells About a PerIlous Ride Which
He Gave Four CoDgressmen--A
Pleasant Reminder of
Sunset Cox.

"Yes, there's good deal of knack
in drivin' hack through the streets of
crowded city"
1t was my friend the Jehu who adj
mitted the soft impeachment as we
tackled down Broadway, says a writer
in the New York Herald. The carriage
was one of the Fifth Avenue hotel rigs,
and was the latest thing out of the var
nish shop apparently, but with a pre-
cision born of long practice and an ease
which the elder Weller could not have
surpassed in his palmicst days the
driver succeeded in just missing wheels
on every hand.
''You see, it kinder gifts to be second
natur to miss a wheel" he said. SIT
as it's instinct. believe L could drive
from here to the battery, barrin the
holes and bitches of the pavement rip
pers, with binders on and not touch a
wheel. Why, bless you sir, I've walked
up more nor once and found / was driv-
in in my sleep. Oh, that amt no soak,
though it does sound like it perhaps.
81 remember once when my little
jimmy was sick with the scarlet fever.
The old woman was poorly, and / sat
up with the gal every minute l could
get off. We was pressed for work, too,
for it was in the presidential canvass
an the bigbugs was comm an goin'
on every train. So L had to keep to the
box when otherwise could have took
day, or may Like week off.
swell, sir, one night, when I was
clean done up with watchin' and driv-
in, had an order to take four con-
gressmen to the Cortlandt street ferry
to the limited I had these same
horses-onstcady nags, but as good
pair as you will find in any gentleman's
stable, and fellows as knows the way
as well as l do myself and I've been
drivin it for fifteen year.
sit was Friday afternoon, and the
way was pretty sure to be full of
trucks, yet we started pretty late too.
The passengers was nervous, and one
of emit was old Sunset Cox, rest his
soul-who knew me well, says: Put
her through, Jerry, an there's two dol
lars extra waitin' for you.
:" All right, Mr.. Cox says l, you'll
be there, never fear
81 give old Billy there cut which he
understood meant time, an away we
went. had em well in hand, and it
only required touch to keep 'em on
the alert, though do believe they knew
as much about steering this here vehi-
Gle as myself Then 1 got to thinlzin'
about little jimmy and wonderful if the
doctor was goin' to pull her through
The next thing 1 knew, sir, ] didn't
know nothin'. l was fast asleep. An
we goin' ickety split down Broadway,
and that street half janmed! 1t makes
me sweat now to think of it,
Suddenly l felt something Juggling
at my coat tails, and pulled III. 1t was
Mr.. Cox, who wanted me to stop for
something. We were in front of the
post Office. He had a quick eye, and he
says, gettin' as pale as a ghost; My
God man, you were asleepn
81 owned up the corn at once, though
it was done so low the other passengers
did not hear q word, and l told him the
reason, an how 1 had been settin' up
nights with my girl jimmy.
"'Don't say word says he, and
upon my soul, sir, l see tear in his eye.
"When we reached the ferry: Here's
your fare, says he, no change;' an he
walked quickly into the ferIy-house. 1
spread out the bill, which was all in a
wudge, an what do you think, sir? 1t
were twenty! That were the sort of
man Sunset Cox was. No wonder that
he did not get rich in congress.
,''Yes, sir, l had druv all the way |
down to Park place in my sleep, an if l
had been wide-awalsc, with forty eyes
10 keep on the trucks and wagons, 1
couldn't have done it sliclier Nothing
like habit, now l tell You!
'Who, jimmy? Oh, she's all right, an
as slick gal as you'd like to see. She's
in the second grade, grammar, an she's
goin' to the normal and to make a
teacher-that is if some young fellow
don't snap her up for wife before.
There is danger Of that, too, for she's
mighty handsome-loolIsl like her dad,
chi Thank you, sir! Yes, don't mind
a smoke now and then, if it's real
good one"
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