San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-27
rr, Ferguson's New Maoksntosh.

Fir. Ferguson's New Macksntosh.
Chicago Tribune.
1t had rained tor three weeks and
was still raining when George Fergu-
son made up his mind to buy a mack
intosh.
II want the best you've got" hs
said to the clerk at the rubber goods
store. "If 1 had bought it when it
began to rain,l 1T W ould have saved me
a whole suit of Clothes"
George Ferguson paid the price the
salesman demanded aud wen out.
When he had entered the store five
minutes before a heavy rain was
falling. When he went out with his
macintosh on, the rain had stopped,
the clouds had almost disappeared
and the sun was shining.
1T will be raining again in a little
WHILE" he said. 'Ill keep it on"
He took i5 to the Office where e was
employed.
''Psitectly dry, isn't it?" inquired
| one OF his associates.
Yes"
IL cost him ST. so to go out with the
| boys and wet it,"
He hung it on a hook back of his
desk, and for q whole week IL hueg
there undisturbed. There was not Is
| sign of rain in all that time. He
ached for an excuse TO wear that
macintosh, but the weather gave
him 10 opportunity.
AT last came cloudy, lowering day
| He carried the macintosh out with
! him to lunch and took it home in the
evening, but it rained not. He Wore
his heavy fur beaver oyeTcoat down
town next morning and the weather
became warm.
The day following was cloudysgaiD,
and he brought his macintosh 10 the
Office and hung 1t Oh its accustomed
hook.
In the afternoon Ii cleared off,
turned suddenly could, and he nearly
frozs riding home in a North Side car,
wiGhOut any overcoat.
This would not do he removed his
lodgings to a place within five min
utes' W Tx of the office, so that he
could make q hasty trip from one to
the other for the macintosh when
necessary. When IL looked like rain
he brought it with him to the office,
aud when 1t was clear he brought his
fur beaver.
One morning when everything was
frosty, he came down with his heavy
OvercOat on and buttoned up to the
chin. 1t became cloudy and some.
what warmer later in the day, and
he lett his o~vercoat at the Office and
started briskly for his lodgings. 1t
began to rain heavily before he had
gone half the distance, and when he
reached his room he was wet to the
skin. Then it cleared off, the wind blew
from the north, and when he went
back to the office with his mackin-
tosh on and O fierce gale blowing
about his ears and tapping the long
skirts of his garment about his legs,
every body on the street stopped and
looked at him.
And 80 it went on for several weeks.
Whenever George had his mackin-
tosh at the Office and his heavy over
coat at home, 1t turned colder.
Whenever he had his heavy over
coat with him and his macintosh at
the other end of the route, 1t rained
like all possessed.
When he bought that macintosh
he weighed 1873 pounds. At the end
OF six weeks his weight had fallen to
l61 l-2. Dark rings made their ap-
psarance under his ey es, his hand
trembled when he attempted to use
the pen, he grew careless of his per-
sonal appearance and lost his appe-
tite.
And never q drop of rain had fallen
on that macintosh.
Yesterday morning the sky was
clear, and ne wore his heavy over
coat. About noon it began to rain
slightly, and he rushed to his lodg-
ipgs, getting the full benefit of the
shower on the way. He put on his
macintosh and went back to the
office, and not q drop fell. 1t had
cleared off.
"Will any of you give me S. for the
beastly thing?n he asked, with q wild
look in his eyes, as he threw the fate
full macintosh OIL the floor and danced
up and down on it.
One of the young men bought it,
hung it up on his own hook, and
Geo. Ferguson went to work again
with q feeling of cOntentment to
which he had long Der q stranger.
And at the hour at which this
chronicle closes-4:30 p. m. Saturday
afternoon-it looks decidedly like
rain, and George has just gone out
and spent the S. for an umbrella.
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