Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-08-01
HE DREAMED ON BEAUrY's ARM
An Incident in a broadway Car which
Made Men Envious.
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He was a small and ffeckled lad. and
she was a lady fair, They met by chance.
the fayorite way, in an uptown Broadway
car.
The day was hot and muggy and he was
tired and enormously sleepy for his size
She was a pretty young woman, and rs she
came into the car as it crawled by the
postothce clad in a cool blue gown.
crowned with big pink rose at the apex
of her hat and set of by a frosty chate-
lame full Of useless things, every man in
| that car felt rs agreeable sensation In
his parched throat as ! he had spied a
Trapped watermelon set before him in
slices Of pink abandon,
The best afforded by the ear la the way
of seats was proifered to the lady. She
smiled swift. three-eighth Srile, and
gracefully seated herself; crossed her neat
patent-leathered feet with both soles
properly down, took dime from her sill
yer charity box and held it between her
teeth until the conductor came and ex-
changed It with ar AIR OF courtly grace for
a coin of baser metal.
From Canal street TO Grand the observed
! of all the observers fixed non-commit.al
gaze upon the space which las in a direct
line in front of her pretty nose, and was
none Che less admired, Of course for that.
AT Grand street He got on. Being
very young and very shabby. and of the
genuine red-headed errand boy sort, he
was a safe person for beauty S kindness.
With white gloved hand the crisp blue
skirts were drawn aside The graceful
FORM hitched a hands breadth to the right,
and small slice Of space thereby made
for tie little fellow repose.
Directly the youngster had wedged his
way IN so that his meagre shoulder blades
rested upon the back of the seat. his eve
lids began to swell and wayer. In two
minutes he had wrapped his fiery little
cocoanut smartly against the window
frame The shock awoke him, and he
looked up in a startled sort of a way at his
fair friend only to meet with a smile OF
bland encouragement He was such "A
clean, ragged, respectable little being, so
distinctly the son of his mother, and she
poor widow
Again his eyelids wayered, and again he
slept, only to be huuched off the arm Of
light-brown dude against whom ne had
lurched. Once more awakened, once more
to sleep. He had tried the window, be
had tried to sit apright and sleep, he had
tried the light-brown dude, and there was
no peace in them. There was no refuge
but the being in blue.
Yet once again the little lad slept and
like most persons he slept along the line Of
least resistance. His thin arm rested
against her shapey one. 1t was not re-
buffed. The little frown between his
sandy brows disappeared then as if it had
been pulled away 10y an angels whisper,
and its place came look of vast content
that would have fitted loosely a man three
times his size,
1t was growing a little warm for Beauty,
but she bore it bravely, looking
down upon the little fellow with a
look of womanly tolerance fit for Madou-
ma. Freckled Boy knew it, even
though he slept, and being well pleas
ed with his inch. reached out for
his ell, Slowly, slowly, bit by bit while
every man Jack in the car held his breath
and thought unutterabe things, he APP
preached his hearts desire Beauty saw
him coming and blushed furiously, but
FrecBled Boy saw not that sweet flag of
distress. He was fast asleep, his cheek
snoozed up TO that cool firm pillow and
his forehead believed with the thy beads
of childish sleep.
With flaming cheeks and downcast eyes
Beauty held her burden until Washing
ton town was reached Then with unutter-
able irmness and white-gloyed hand she
raised the sleeping boy from her arm,
leaned him over against the ight-brown
dude, smiled sweety and left the car.
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One was the boy and one was dude; FIVE
were her slaves who thought of her beauty,
and FIVE we're they who thought what
lot they had had for the price Of admis-
sion.