The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-07-13
HE WAS RATHER FRESH.
He Did Everything Two Strange Girls Asked
Him to Do, Even Paying Their Cab Hire.

| Him TO do, Even raging Their Cab Hire.
l boarded a Sixth avenue L train
at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street yesterday afternoon. At One
Hundred and Sixteenth street two
very pretty girls, ingenious looking,
entered the car l occupied. After
looking around in a sort of where
are we at way for a moment they
came to the section where I was sit
ting, riding backward. My vis-a-vis
was an old lady. One ingenue sat
beside me, the other beside the old
lady.
Before l had time to offer my seat
the n beside the old lady asked:
won't you please change seats
with me, sir?"
Certainly. I was about to offer it
to you," I said.
"Oh, thank you'll"
After riding as far as One Hun
dred and Fourth street she jumped
up and exclaimed, with a peachblow
pout:
ooh, Ican'tride backward! Won't
you change again, sir?"
with pleasure" said 1, although
l had just commenced reading my
paper.
Sorry to trouble you, sir"
Don't mention it. l could keep
this up all day"
And 1 resumed my reading.
Have you the timer" she asked
in a few moments, leaning toward
me, not half far enough.
My watch has stopped. but I'll
just step off at Ninety-third street
station, tell the conductor to hold
the train a moment and look at the
station clock" I said.
And I did as had promised.
Seven minutes past g." I said on
my return.
And l was about to esume my
reading when she asked:
Are you sure that clock is right"
II presume SO, but to make sure
III open the window and ask the
ticket chopper" I said. This l did
also.
Yes; he says it's right"
She nodded her pretty head and
smiled bewitchingly.
l wanted to finish a long story be-
fore reaching the Office, SO l again
resumed my reading.
How long does it take to 60 down
to Forty-second street," sweetly
asked the ingenue in a moment.
about 25 minutes"
And again I began to read.
I'VE want to catch a train at the
Grand Central at $40. Doyou think
we can do it?"
II should think so, if you take a
cab at the station"
"Those horrid cabs! don't like
'em. Do you, Mollie?"
No, Mollie didn't either. Glad of
a little respite, l looked in my paper
to see where I had left off. Before l
could find the place Mollie asked in
her NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. cat
tenish voice:
How much do they charge, do
you know"
about so cents apiece. Perhaps
they'll take you both for 70"
"How far do you go, sir?"
II go to Thirty-third street."
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The questions were coming too fast.
you couldn'tge off at Forty-sec-
ond, I suppose, and help us with our
traps into a cab?"
"Oh, certainly! have all day to
myself. I only work at night"
"Well, how's that? Are you an
actor"
mo; I'm a newspaper man."
"A reporter"
Copy reader"
What's that?" came from both
pretty mouths simultaneously.
l explained.
"Forty-secondl" cried the con-
ductor.
"Oh, here's where we get off, sir!
Will you kindly
I"kindly." l carried their traps
down stairs, hailed a cab, asked
what the fare was. Seventy five
cents. Both opened their pocket
books. Neither had change. Jehu
had none either. l was asked if ]
had. l gave up the last three quar-
ters I had, saluted and started to
walk to the office. just then l heard
n sweet ingenue say to the other
Indignantly:
"Strikes me he's rather fresh on
first acquaintance. "-NewYork Her.
aid.
Vinegar.
Vinegar is fatal to many kinds of
bacteria. We read that during the
great plague in London a couple
earned fabulous sums in nursing the
wealthy, and that their own means
of defense was swathing the lower
part of the face with cloths dipped
in strong vinegar. Some one says
MY grandmother used a gargle of
salt and pepper with vinegar for all
us children, and she didn't have to
go to a sanitary club to learn it.
True, no doubt, a timely though
utterly empirical use of that gargle