Little Falls transcript., 1893-12-29
JUST HIS LUCK.

ne Wrote Her ALI Right, but There Was
One Too Many.
A pretty woman and fine looking
man were seated together in the Central
station the other afternoon. He was go
ing away and she had come down to see
him off. The doorman called his train
and he rose to go.
ssNow, Jim," she said, 'syou will be
sure to write to me the minute you get
there, won't your !,
Certainly said Jim. r. ,
"Be sure, now," she said again as he
was about to pass out into the train shed.
81 shall be so anxious until hear that
you got there, safe" 4
At the end of three days Jim returned
home. He went to the store and left his
grip, and then he went home. His wife
met him at the door.
''Hellop' said Jim. '.e
She said nothing. .s.s - D.. .--
whats the matter?" inquired Jim
anxiously. a-
His wife glared at him. II thought
you were going to write to me when you
got to Detroitf" +, ~ -
"Why," Jim replied, 81 did write to
you. I sent you nice long message on
postal card. Didn't you get it?' Fl
''Nice long message, was itl''
Certainly. wrote you just a little
while after got there. Didn't any
come?' = :
"Oh, yes," and there was q dangerous
glitter in the wife's eyes, II got the pos
| tai card all right" r. =:
Jim felt relieved. 'Then what are
you kicking about?' he asked. {" -
His wife took a card out of her pocket
and held it toward him, address side out.
"Was this the card?' she asked.
Jim looked at the writing. It was a
little straggly for him, but he recognized
it. "Yes," he asserted, 'tthat's the card"
"What did you sayY' inquired his wife,
still clutching the postal card. e..
Jim settled back in his chair and
thought hard. 81 said had arrived all
| right" he finally began, "and that had
met some of the boys and was having a
good time, and that I was coming home
today and that you should take good
care of yourself and the babies"
's.said all that, did your asked his wife
in cold, hard voice.
Certainly did. You've got the card
Land can read it there, can't your
She looked hard at the back of the
card. II don't see anything like that
here," she said, after studying it for a
moment. -45
"Quit your joking with me-" {" said Jim,
who was beginning to get a bit anxious,
land let me see that card" He grabbed
1t out of his wife's hand and turned it
oyer. I'll,
There wasn't word of writing on the
back of it! :.
.sNow, there's sample Of hard luck, !"
said Jim, when he was telling about it.
II went up to Detroit and behaved my
self. was quiet as deacon all the
time was there didn't drink thing,
and yet it viii take the greatest game Of
talk you ever heard to make that little
woman think I didn't and wrote the ad-
dress on the front of that card and for
got to write any thing on the back of it. !"
well, did you write anything on the
back Of it??'' asked friend,
"Certainly did. wrote on card,
but had two of them in my pocket and
they stuck together. The address was
on one and the note on the other. The
one with the address came through all
right, of course; but the note is floating
around somewhere between here and the
dead letter Office and get the worst Of
it at home and all because two Of those
dog gasted postal cards stuck together.
/ # that amt hoodoo game, I don't want
d cent. - Buffalo Express.