The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-06-29
HE WAS RATHER FRESH.
He Did Everything Two Strange Girls Ask

He Did Everything Two Strange Girls Asked
Him to Do, Even Paying Their Cab Hire.
| 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 a | occupied. After
looking around in a sort of where
7 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," 1 said.
ooh, 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 l, 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 I had promised.
"Seven minutes past g." said on
my return.
And I was about to my
reading when she asked:
Are you sure that clock is right"
II presume so, but to make sure
I'll open the window and ask the
ticket chopper" I said. This I 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 go down
to Forty-second street," sweetly
asked the ingenue in a moment.
About 25 minutes"
And again l began to read.
1--WE want to catch a train at the
Grand Central at $40. Do you think
we can do it?"
II should think SO, if you take a
cab at the station"
"Those horrid cabs! l don't like
'em. Do you, Mollie?"
No, Mollie didn't either. Glad of
a little respite, I looked in my paper
to see where I had left off. Before
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 rs"
"How far do you go, sir?"
II go to Thirty-third street"
I didn't dare resume reading now.
The questions were coming too fast.
"You couldn'tg get off at Forty-seo-
ond, I suppose, and help us with our
traps into a cab?"
"Oh, certainly! I have all day to
myself. l only work at night"
well, how's that? Are you an
actor"
mo; I'm a newspaper man."
"A reporter"
Copy reader"
whats that?" came from both
pretty mouths simultaneously.
I explained.
IoI W -SCSCllu SIlCo UllS COIl-
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 mono either. I was asked if ]
had. gave up the last three quar-.
ters I had, saluted and started tc
walk to the office. just then l heard
one sweet ingenue say to the Other
Indignantly:
"Strikes me he's rather fresh on
first acquaintance "-NewYork Her
aid.
"A DOwry on Approval.