Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1892-05-27

4 ls&y Who Provides All Umbrella III An
Emergency for Il Considerations.

S1tlttl1 wy. III i11tt WAN ~ tA'+s,% %*aAA
brclla several sizes larger than him
self. stood 1T the foot ri tho stairway
Of the Sixth avenue elevated station
ut Onc Hundred and Sixteenth street.
"l1crt yer are. gents aud ladies',
he cried. waving Ills umbrella i1vit~
iagly, as the passengers began to ito.
scend and look about them for SOME
n1cans OF getting homt.
"Twtlty.iivc cents to take ytl
homo. la>lit's. II | vets yer dresses
gets no pay. see'"
The Inch stared ut him and III
most cases turned their collars up
and passed or. but with the women
it was different. They stared ut him
also, but while their eyes we're tax
ins in the small boy their brains
were weighing their gowns and their
How bonnrtS in thu balance with the
s,nall lmys. frr. The result was
practically a forcgonc conclusion,
During tic hour aud II half that the
storm lasted tic younGster actually
made $2131. All of his patrons were
women with ono cxceptlon~an old
lna1l almost bent double with rhcu
lnatls1n.
After the storm had cleared and
the small buy and his umbrella were
r,stiL. from their llbors ut the boot.
black stand at tho corner, tho young
tinuncier consented to talk.
1T WAS pretty good night, this
! WIS., he remarked, n he slowed
away his net proceeds i'll the one
ln,tk>t which his trousers possessed.
1T came up nicely. that rain did,
None Ut the women got OH to it at I'LL.
Dill yer stu the fat Old woman, the
one wild tho parrot on her hat] Oh,
she's a corkcr. she is. There amt
been 4 rain in tho last six months
but what she's got caught in it.
Shes hi @hty sweet on HE now. but
she didn't use to lie. | did her up
once. Shes scared OF me-,
How did you manage itl" he was
:: asked.
Well. yer see. last year when l
! first went into the biz the old woman
j used to kick. She said was extor
| tioning Of her. Once she gave me
! tho shake ut the door and wouldn't
cough up the price. After that she
! threw Mo ten cent piece out Of the
wi1ldcr But let it lie there, for
/ me blood was up.
! The next week seen her start
; down town ono day dressed UP daisy
/ knew there WIS rain a~colnin on. 50
! WAITED In about three hours it tt.
! gan to rain liclzity cut. The old wom-
Nh came homo right in the niddl*'
/ OF it. was standing there viii me
umbrella.
e. ''S,n>n a. she came down the steps
! smiled at her. same Us ii nothing
/ was wro1S between Us. The Old
woman looked kind Of assumed like
but sll~ smiled ut me too, Little
10y slit. sail - she always calls ME
little boy"-txplaincd the youn=stcr,
with Il panied expression. "'Littlc
boy she says, i want you to take
me home today, Please Ut VERY
careful of my new bunnct.
YES. na'an,' says and We
started Sfn>n as we started says
to her. says /. Where's me quarter
for the other layt She pretended
she <lit1nt catch On. But WIS on to
her, YOU but Give nc mt quarter
now. says If yuu don't III sneak.
|" 'Irt1lle+l the umbrella off her a bit.
Tho old woman began to scream,
You little wretch, says she. I'D 1nx
/ the cars Oft you it it wasn't raining.
Then when She sccn wasn't gum no
further She pulled her purse out and
gave me fifty cents for the two trips
NV she and Inc always travel oil
the dead level. She amt a bad Oh
blokc,' le aided considerably, IF
you only knows how to treat her.
Men amt no good, he continued
in answer to q question US to which
sex ho preferred as customers
They always wants to hold the UNI
brcllas. Once Il Teller tried to run
away wild it. But 7 was On to him.
| Sometimes women wants to carry It
too. only lets them, though when
they're very tall, But I'm gcttin an
umbrella n1utle now us will stop all
their monkey business. It's goin to
have a handle us slips up and down.
Sect It's going to tit ladies OF every
4ize. New York Evening Sun.
A Tifctimn of Punishment,