Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02
HAD A GOOD TIME.
Some Little Offsets, but They Didn't
Count.

| Some Little Offsets, but They Didn't
Count.
From the Detroit Free Press
Among the passengers going over on one
Of the ferry boats yesterday afternoon was
an old mar with a red but good -natured
face a bald pate. with a fringe of gray hair
around it. and an evident desire to talk
Pretty soon he selected his man and said:
I'm just goin' hum after bein' in Detroit
fur two weeks -~sr
Have you enjoyed yourselfY' was asked
in reply.
Yes, fairly well. considerin' that had
an attack of collie four different times, and
that left knee has bothered me with rheu-
mates. It's kind of a queer place, though
How queer?"
''Oh. wall. everybody is kinder coltish III
bet that over forty fellers dug their elbows
into me and hustled me around. and the
boys sasseo me in the most dreadful man.
ner. was on the street car and took some
cough strip out OF bottle and everybody
Uttered and giggled."
But you didn't mind it?"
'Ohi no, l didn't. I'm kinder coltfsh N.Y.
self. and IT takes a heap to get me fightin'
mad. II was on street car one day where
there was four or five wimin standin' up
While about dozen men were takin IL
mighty comfortable. Made me sort o. riled
to see II, an 1 got up an said: All the
hogs will keep right on sittin' down and
chawin terbacker, while all the gentlemen
will git up and let these wimin folks sit
down! Wall, sir, as many as six of them
fellers offered TO lick me- and one of them
did haul on to crack at me. He'd a-hit me
on the jaw. sure's you're born IL / hadn' 4
bristled right up to him and got my jack
knife out"
You talked to 'em Just right"
Yes, l guess 1 did Another time / was
on car when Teller in a wagon wouldn' I
git off the track. The driver he did more
whistlin' than would call my old dog fur
ten years, but the Teller wouldn't git Off
Sorter riled me to see a man actin SO pizen
mean, and / yelled: Look "a here mister
II you was alvin out our way and showed
your meanness after this fashion you'd Git
rode on a rail quickern' scat, and I'd be one
to help carry IT. Wall, sir, he Jumps down
and was 2oin' to pull me of the platform
and he talked about smashin my Jaw and
breakin' my ribs till policeman walked
him off,"
ANY other adventures?
wall. one evening I went up to a police
man at the post office. He was lookin' tired
and sleepy. and offered to spell him fur a
couple of hours IL he wanted to go and take
nap. What do you think he did? Come
mighty nigh arsestin' me, Said / was in
terferin' with an officer! 1 seen he was one
o them techy sort, and SO let him alone
Are they all that way?'
mo, not all. But then he didn't under
stand your motive, probably"
Notner Tune, continued the old man,
Il met policeman on the dock and sked
him If it didn't make him giddy and upset
his stomach to be so high up over the wa
ter. and he got mad in a mint and squared
on at me. Amt no mortal use in anybody
bein so cantankerous as all that"
But, on the whole, you've had a good
time, haven't your"
ION the hull I've had a darned good time
fur an old man like me. and I'm a-carryin'
hum over 'leven dollars with o. presents TO
the family I've been sassed and elhawed
and I've come mighty nigh havin' bout six
fights, but, on the hull, it's all right, and
I'm goin' hum to do some OF the tallest
braggin you ever heard OFF,