Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-08-23
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he met them Just AZ they were troop
4 ing out of the drug store, telling each
h other gleefully how much cream those
Y people did pnt in the soda on cool days.
And II always save my own soda
money for cool days. !" remarked the
girl il the pink shirt waist. On hot
ones somebody always treats you any
how. Besides you really never get as
much cream when q man gives the or
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81 don't SEQ how you have 50 much
money to spend, anyhow" gloomily re-
piled the young man who had joined
them. .,; VII I.
"'Oh, we have Just slipped our car
fares again, and this is xae way we cele-
brate it, replied his sister. .l5 -
Don't you know it isn't right to
cheat the car company?'' asked the
young man, with a judicial air. ~;
4 "Not right, indeed" said the girl
who had once spent two months at col
hge. Then why isn't the company
made to give us a seat for q fare? Tell
me that .e.r& '@.
"Um-ah-oh, that is different
matter |" weakly replied the young man.
1T is, is it?'' retorted his sister.
"'That's all you know Oh, it was SO
funny today. We got on q crowded car
and kept edging farther to the front so
the conductor thought we had paid. The
first time he came near us we asked in
injured tones why he had not given us
transfers, and we got them too
"But what did you want with trans
1ers?" .., .r. ~.
1--WE didn't want them at all our
selves, but when we got of we saw
three little ragged boys who looked as if
they needed fresh air, SO we gave them
to them," and the girl in the pink shirt
waist looked virtuous. 49,,
But I don t see how You can cheat
1T isn't cheating to get ahead Of q
street car company, replied the girl
who had once spent two months in col
Age 'Did ever tell you how once
passed dime with hole in it? No?
Well, I got on Car with that coin, and
that only, in my pocket. I was going to
. dance that night, and knew if I
walked home I'd be too tired to enjoy
it, so ! just had to pass it.
II don't see how you could expect
"'Don't you? Well, I just smiled up
into the conductors face as ! gave it to
him. He felt that it was dime, and
with his eyes fixed on mine gave me
nickel, dropped the dime in his pocket
and passed slowly on. !" ....'..t,.
"Ah, oh, wasn't it too funny y gig
cgled the other girls. ~.
"Why, know girl who succeeded
in getting two fares at once out Of the
company, said the girl in the pink
shirt waist. "How? Oh, she found she
had come off without any money, and
she didn't want to 60 back, so she got
on with a lot Of people, and while the
conductor was collecting their fares he
had to 20 out and drive lot Of boys off
the rear platform. When he came back,
she looked grieved and asked, Don Il I
set any change for dime?' She got it
ttool'' n n" S*,' ~
'Oh, May, how awfully funnyl"
cried the girls, while the young man
muttered something between his teeth.
Eyes. I told her that I doubted if it
was just right, but she said she had been
riding on chat line every day for two
years, and they owed her something"
''Pahl' said the young man. "Wom-
'en seem to have no real idea Of honor
as men have Now, no man would do
such a.
''Wouldi't hep asked the girl in the
pink shirt waist. "Well, Well ask the
first man we meet vIlom we happen to
know if he ever slips his fare. F."
"Yes and INSULT,
"Ah, mol Here comes Mr.. Gratehed.
Ask him.
"Here, Gratehed," called the young
man, "we are just talking of slipping
car fares and"-
'You are, eh2 Well, the best way to
do it ISL
Five minutes later the girls led the
young man to the drug store and made
him treat to soda twice. Chicago
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