The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-09-24
At The TICKET WINDOW.


An Example OF some or the scenes En-
acted Thereat.
A writer, himself a ticket-sclIer. re-
ports a scene which he witnessed moi
long ago while seated in large rail.
way station. The 11:40 train was about
due to leave when two women hurried
up TO the window, land the taller OF
them called for two tickets 10 G.
The man at the window took them
from the case, and as usual called out
the price-sixty
The tall woman stopped her search
Of her purscs and looked up in amaze.
ment.
'sSixty cents!'
"Yes'm, and you'll have to hurry Il
you want to catch this next train.
Il didn't think the price was SO much
as that
1.-THE tickets are thirty cents EACH
''Oh, ofScoLrseir she said, with a sigh
of relief; ''butI only want one"
Excuse me-" said the agent, =
thought you asked for two"
Yes, but the other lady will pay fol
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 com.
pleted, it was past 11:4o but the train
had not gone. The two women left the
window, but Immediately came back
again. out of breath.
Are these excursion tickets?" they
cried.
.'No."
"Oh, but we wanted excursion tick.
ets.'
ssThen give me fifteen cents more,
each of you: and | 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 fif-
teen cents the train drew out of the
station.
"The train has gomez frantically cx-
claimed the short woman.
"When is the next train for C-?''
asked her companion.
..Oh! Ohr' cried the short woman.
Now, you see, we've got to wait
here an hour and ten minutes just be-
cause yon didn't give us the right tick
ets,p said the tall woman, glaring at
the ticketseller.
Fl beg your pardon, gave you what
you asked for"
"Of course we wanted to come back. y
stBut l didn't know it,
""-.4 Did you suppose wanted to live
there forever" asked the short woman.
at is hardly my place to suppose at
all, madam; must give people what
they ask for"
81 shouldn't mind your stupidity if
we didn't have to wait here more than
an hour on account of it.
With this they turned their backs
and founced away.
MADAM" eried 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
f Eve cents upon -midow=sheff, 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 a grouty fellow that ticket
agent was!" he heard the tall one say.
Eyes, = answered the other, ticket
agents are all alike. l never could UNI
derstand why they are always so dis
agreeable
/ 1t was no wonder they were pro
voked; but it does seem little strange,
as the teller of the story remarks, that
the ticl1et-seller-the only one of the
three who had not made mistake, and
who had not lost his temper, and the
only one who had been civil-should in
the end have been called grouty anG
disagreeabl Boston Transcript.