Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1894-01-19
AT THE PALACE,

scoop If the queen at the present had
any use for her drawing room and if
not would she mind if I did little
drawing there.
sent my new engraved card with
esquire at the end of the name, together
with the message and sovereign. My
card had attached to it note of intro
ductlon from one of our embassy to
London, a man whom since learned
has made good livelihood by claiming
that he is an assistant ambassador or
something of that kind. He told me
all about London, and l believe now
that he is full born Englishman of
the Artful Dodger variety.
He told nue. that one evening, when
studying the character of the cabman
OF London and spending a couple of
hours with them at one of their "shel~
ters, " which her most gracious majesty
has provided for the cold and hungry
cabman in all the principal streets, he
stepped out to take his own cab when q
pleading voice begged him in God 8
name to give ride up the street to the
end of Piccadilly.
He turned to see in the uncertain light
Of the nasty night rosy faced girl of
10 or 20. The night was chilling, and
the picturesque mud of the great city
seemed to rise up out of the earth and
como down out of the sky till the roads
were like copperas colored glue.
He opened the door and asked the
fearful child to step in and "look
sharp for he was in a hurry. Look
sharp is English for "getting a move
on one." They rode on for mile, and
he paused to let her out, but she craved
a drop Of wassail from a two quart
beaker and seemed to show an affection
for him that would indicate the love at
first sight which Piccadilly makes a
speciality Of.
I'm sorry, me girl,' he said, "but
your affection is not returned. While
respect you, must tell you frsnkly
lovo another. - rs r -,
MAY only ask your name and all
dress?" she said, with quivering chin
and eyes all wet with tears, which hung
on her long lashes like morning dew On
the whiskers of the waving corn. Then,
with playful pat on his shoulder, she
slipped from his breast pocket letter
on the outside of which his London ad-
dress was written.
With a girlish laugh she held 1t near
the cab lamp to read it, but he was ir-
ritated and rudely snatchsd it from her,
tore it in two and threw it away. Her
great blue eyes grew larger, aud the
color seemed to leave her face. Her
bosom rose and fell with the checked
pants which marked her heavy breath
ing.
"Oh, woe, woe!' she walled In her
sweet voice, that l should have taken
you for gentleman when you are q
- fly up the crick. Oh, why did
leave me lugzurious one to- be hinsulted
by blu1nin harse? Give me 2 bob, or
Hi II mash your 'at!' ~,
He looked at her askancs and told the
cabby to pause and let the lady alight.
This bogus ambassador was always a
gentle and refined man, even though a
fraud. would rather be defrauded by
him than entertained for al, evening by
some others know.
With that she blackened his eye with
her left, and with her right che laid
open his jaw with seal ring she wore
Then she mashed his chimney pot hat
over bis entire head and face, 80 that it
rested on his collar bone and then let off
a shrek that made every heart stand
still within mile.
He was a perfect gentleman, but he
CROPPED for her bonnet, tore it in two and
threw it in the mud. He was naturally
kindly man, but you could not PROM
enade up and down on his stomach with
spiked shoes unless you could give him
plausible reason for SO doing.
Then the poor girl walled again, so
that in FIVE minutes the cab was sur.
rounded, or at least the sidewalk ncxt 1t
--"- knct with neopte many Of them
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