The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-14

''k1e looked at sim ms ana S1mMB
Looked at Him. y
managing an important station on q
great railway. But the official stood
his ground, though couple of nervous
passengers got out and stood on the
platform. s. IA
'Good dog!' he said soothingly
hurt you! Come, SIR he continued,
you move your dog OF be moved out
yourself? Lets know where we are
We can't keep the train. il you don't
move your dog out you must go, and
probably he'll follow 4. 80
n Il don't see why should do either"
said the man. sLemme so t sleep!'
'Oh, you don't see why you should r
said the station master sarcastically.
''Then I.ask you to leave the compart-
ment or remove your dog. Now, which
is it to be? In two words, please"
Neither" said the man. Let me
alone, and take the internal cur-he
called Ebenezer an internal cur where
you like. What have I got to do with
it? Lemme go t sleep!' 8
IT suppose it is his dog said the be-
wildered station master, looking around
, inquiringly. HI
Nobody knew; but everybody sup
posed so. S5#
Nov, SIR he continued as one who
hands in an ultimatuln, lis this your
dog or is it not:''
'.No, it is't,''' roared the man. 81
wouldn't own such an internal tinker's
curse Of a thing"
Then why didn't you say sosbeforey'
said the station master III.
Because you never asked me-" said
the passenger. And now go to - 3. 4
Swindon, think it was that was our
next stop. And lemme got sleep. - ~
/ When Ebenezer heard himself be-
| trayed, maligned. repudiated and given
away in the despic BILE words Isghave
reported he gave a. short yelp and
/ jumped down, for he recognized that
his position was no longer tenable. But
he knew what he was going to do, did
EbeneZer; he always does. III G.
Die he, think you, endeavor to place
his inch and quarter of tail between
| his legs, creep out of the carriage and
Jump humbly into a compartment of
the third class? Did he stink under a
seat somewhere and take the next
train to Paddington? Did he hide his
diminished eleven inches in the dog
DOX! Not EbeneZer! III.
He jumped off his own seat-his. cas-
| tie, which had been betrayed into the
hand of the enemy--and sprang lightly
! into the lap of the better looking Of the
two ladies, and looked up into her face
Fin a gushing manner, and licked her
hand, and moaned a little, and said, in
every possible way excepting speech,
that, though every one was against him,
and he was a poor, despised, miserable
!, dog, yet he felt sure that she would
never have the heart to reject him, but
would allow him to curl up his ill
used person upon her knees, and see
that he was not further ill-treated just
simply and solely because he had had
4 the misfortune to mislay his master.
who had the tickets for both!
And that dear, good woman took it.
all in, OF course; and she cherished
Ebenezer, the rejected, in her bosom
and fed him upon the best Of everything
that she had about her, and took him
into her dear, credulous English heart
. at once, never suspecting what fraud
he was. and wished ever so much
when the train reached Bristol that
Ebenezer might prove to be altogether
lost 50 that she might forever adopt
this nursing that fate had placed in
her keeping. III
4 AS Tor Ebenezer, he was as sweet as
honey, in the honeycomb, and gave that
/ Lady to understand that he loved her
very dearly indeed-until Bristol was
reached. Then he jumped off her knee
and ran out of the station, without a
tear or a smile or a sigh or a pang Of
regret or anything else that he ought
to have felt or shown; and, what's
more, when he met her next morning
in the streets of the city on his way
to the station for the return journey.
he cut her dead. lest awkward ql1es-
lions should be put to him!
Oh. Ebenezer! Ebenezer!-St Louis
Globe-D Democrat.