The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-11
Written for Tho Tribune.

do you expect much trafiic tomorrow.
| sir?" Watkins aeked rather nervously.
received . dispatch stating that there
will BE- hve special excursions tomorrow.
and. goodness knows, they may be in,
wish these stedvuds, or what-do-your-
cali EN-, to the d"
Watkins felt too grateful for the news
Of his Ss sas
That evening he quietly humIned over
his solos, but, as wise eisteddvod man
he nursed his stomach. He then looked
up Il friend or two who We're TO take tn.
field on the morrow as bassos.
The next morning, with hasty ''happy
New Year" to his folks, he hastened to
take his place in the long Indian file be-
fore the railway ticket office. A train
came along. and the porter closed tha
gate. leaving half the people outside. Wat
kins rushed to the gate. jumped over Il.
trousers. and pitched himself into a COM
partment. making the twenty-first where
there was room only for ten.
for to travel without ticket on those
trains was Il serious offense. Train con-
ductors are not supposed to sell tickets
for an extra 10 cents on the trains, but
less to Y policeman who usually hangs
around the railway station for the JOB.
But Watkins was an old offender; and
plan. His leading principle of warfare
was to guard against surprises.
The train reached -Aberglasdwr In good
the crowd through the wicket where tick
| cts were collected. He waited to the last
man, squeezed three pence into the por-
ters fist and offered the money to pay
Excursions cover a multitude of railway
Irregularities. and happy Is he who knows
how to profit thereby.
"Nmotheus" came on early at the Alb
erglasdwr eisteddvod. and ten stalwart
fellows cried for revenge" with all their
might, and the eadjudicators-we don't call
assizes and ttle-shows-announced that
'''Nmotheus" had been amply "revenged"
by the singing Of ''Eryr Ararat." Wat
kins jumped to the platform, and with
~ submissively rs a victim OF the guillo-
tine. and a stylish young lady threw over
his neck a loop of ribbon TO which was
| suspended rOsette with half-a-sovereign
hidden among Its petals.
Though the four places were on the
| same route. watkins had next to make his
way to Pontgam. passing by the other two
places. Flushed with his first triumph,
his heart was further gladdened by seeing
two excursion trains. one on the tail of the
other, steamins into the station; Here
and reached Fontgam without renting fur
ther his clothes.
The Pontgam committee was wiser than
the Aberglasdwr one: 1t had been decid-
ed that the fifteen BAY of Biscay" men
were to be listened to by one Of the adju-
dicators in Il school room close by, while
Herbert Travers Badenhanl, esq, NJ r..
G.. c., was delivering a long Grafton on
''The Glory OF the Welsh Nation" wind
ing II up with the invariable "Oice Y bit
i'r 1eth Gwmrake." The result of this
preliminary contest was that four, among
whom was "Coavr Cwrlyn," were selected
TO sing the piece before the audience.
when, OF course, the rosette came to Wat
kiiS.
The rendering OF THE Death of Nelson"
at the Cwmsant Eisteddvod was, in the
opinion Of Sir Duncan M&cnamara, the
leading aAJudicatOr, one Of the best treats
OF his life. He would Willingly, he said,
award the prize to each of the cOmpeti-
tors. Out Of the abundance Of his good