The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-07-07
HUMAN NATURE ON THE BRIDGE

the bridge policeman, yesterday,
found him talking with q man who
said he was iiom the Mohawk Valley,
and who Was just then declaring:
"Why. it's . regular old seeker OF
q bridge! 1t must be the sockingesi
structure of the kind in the world !"
Its one Of the largest bridges in the
world, ! believe" replied Scotty.
'WelI, l shoull say! Suspended
right across the river!'
Yes"
"Never FALLS"
"No."
Right here all the time !"
eyes"
"Isn't carried off in the spring
when the ice goes OUT"
"NO."
"Ican't realize it. / don't believe
| could sit down and fgser out a
bridge like this in q whole month
When / tell the cid man about it he'll
think I'm lying or was drunk. He
built fence Ieven feet high around
q race-trsck, and he says it's the big
gest thing in the state of New York.
Jewhitiaker! but what q sight! Fell
Ter who built this was SMART"
"Yes."
"Iil bet be didn't do chores nights
and mornings for his board and school
ing"
81 think not"
"Lands bat what Teller he would
be to invent rst-trsps and SIGH He'd
make his fortune up our way in year.
Has he ever brought out a washing
machine, ice cream freezer or any
thing Of that sort?"
81 don't think he has"
probably waiting to git sunthln'
tremendous. The old man told me
I'd better keep offn it, or she might
60 down When l tell him that
folks and teams and cars was crossing,
and that nobody was afraid, he'll git
mad and want them 81 / owe him.
Is the man who made the bridge
around here to-day?
II haven't seen him to-day"
I'm something on the invent my.
self, and Id like to talk with him."
IL invented the first clothes reel
ever put up in the Mohawk Valley.
we'll l will look around for myself .
little. Have some caraway seeds?"
mo thapks."
lawful good for your breath, but
they don't agree with everybody.
Good morning."
He had scarcely left US when mar
ried couple approached from the New
York end. 1t was plain to see the
husband was out of sorts. As they
game up he flung himself on a bench
with q great bang an; groaned out:
"Oh, heavenes! but low that heel
hurts! The hide must be rubbed of
all the way up to my chin! Well
we've got down at last, and now you
can begin to gawp around"
"Pm sorry il your heel hurts you
DEAR" she replied.
"Never mind my heel. Just 60
right ahead and open your eyes and
mouth and act as if you never got
away from home before !"
"But you wanted to come, Rich
ard y
Didn't either! l told you it was
nothing but bridge. what is there
about q bridge to set anybody wild !?
60 ahead and gawp! We start for
home this afternoon!"
"All strangers coming to New York
always come to see the bridge, don't
'heyr she appealed to Scotty.
Certainly, ma'ma," he replied.
This is By oil odds the biggest sight
% be seem"
II wouldn't 60 ten rods to zee i'll"
yrowled the old Bow er a. he got his
ore heel off the ground.
"This bridge connects New York |
md e!H Brootlyn = queried the wife.
"Who didn't know that 2" gruuted |
he husband.
"Were they long in building III"
"Several years, ma'am."
"Didn't 'spose they begun Monday
nornipg and had the old thing done
y Saturday night, did vel" put in
be husband.
Richard, ! wish you would closely
bserve this bridge 70 % to talk with
Ne about it when We get home. It isl
ach . stupendous structure hat