The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-12

FCteN --<lv#t a BROW ne u anu uIQppcu
n FnsedA E:4nto Los Alamos on
~ III )Isss:: business. When we
Ls7Bs..sss.sss reached the hotel we
E...,.a 49,: found about seventeen
ss.ssS[so other commercial men
hugging the stove and
all intent on visiting the little town OF
Lomp0c. some twenty miles distant the
following Monday morning. The weather
was rainy ami very cold and Lompoc could
only be reached by team.
On SUNDAY Bcownell and 1 put our heads
together and decided that we would steal
march on the other boys by striking for
Lom4oe that evening.
We engaged q team and quietly leaving
the hotel we're soon on our way TO the
coast. The night was fesrfully cold and
most Of cur path lay over the mountains.
but we consoled ourselves BY thinking OF
the warm fire and comfortable bed which
awaited us at the end OF our journey.
The Lompoe Hotel was reached about
balf-past 10 o'clock and after little trouble
we succeeded In getting UP the landlord,
whO was at first adverse to letting us IN.
When lie came down TO the door we told him
We wanted a couple Of rooms with Rood
hot fire In each.
To our disgust we found he had only one
room vacant and that contained single
bed and its one window had almost all the
panes Of glass broken out We'naturally
kicked vigorously. Then the landlord spoke
of the parl0r, IN which was comfortable
sofa ana large, warm stove. Ii was a
choice between US as to who should occupy
the parlOr sofa and have the stove or VINO
should freeze 10 death IN the room whose
window had no glass Ia Il.
q 4 0446 a throw
paTlor AMI l lost, SO BroWneH partially
addressed, and wrapping himself up IN COM
fOrJers stretched out on the floor.
The landlord end | remained IN the room
talking near the stove for some time.
Suddenly | noticed Jack was sound asleep,
and with one word IN the landlords ear
knew l would be fixed snugly toI the night.
We turned the dRmpeT IN the si0vepIpe,
and then, picking up the stove bodily, car
red it into my room and stuck tie end OF
the pipe out through the window. We az
ranged blankets around the windows, 50 as
to keep tile cold cut, and then, alter securely
locking the parIor door, turned II and
sleDt the sleep Of the just.
The next morning | arose, and. going to
the parl0r door, knocked vigorously and
called for Jack. He got up at last, but was
so stiff and benumbed that he could hardly
open the door He was really IN such
state that DO h the landlord and myself
compelled him to take some whisky, and as
he never used liquor Il took some persua-
sion TO get it down bis neck.
Then the funniest part Of the affair came.
He went inIo my loom and saw The
stove.
Joe" said he. II thought there was q
stove q the parlor last night. but remem-
Der how tired l was when We got here, and
l suppose | must nave dreamed II"
/ told him that he most asSuredly had
dreamed it, but during the day The landlord
gave the whole thing away
Br0wnell said nothing, but when we got
back to Los Asmos he politely went TO
Jack Snyder, the hotel proprietor. and told
hin that he had just shaken dice with me TO
see who would pay for the team and horse
feed We had used q our recent trip, and
that I had lost So you see be got back at
me for stealing his stove.
When [ found out what he had done
sent him dispatch to San Luis ObispO
thanking him for his kindness and having
the telegram, which amounted to 81 05.
charged.
so 1t goes on the road. One is hardly
squared on one joke until he finds himself
in DEBT on another. JOSEPH A. WILSON.