The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-06
TRousLE'AL THE WAY UP.

Boughs a ~HeAsssss Chssess Down rewe,
IAAdsA b : Raapataa Up Town.
Tia nuzse adjusted tho bandage on the
patient's head ii one Of the wards Of / big
hospital up town and then she said;
snow you may tell me how 1t happsned
Nyou will promise TO b very quiet"
swell, you know Monday Was warm
day." he began, "so I went into q store
and told the man wanted to buy straw
hat. He picked up one, put 1t on my head
and he says, That's the hat you want
Just that way. said I would like to look
at others. He said he had others, but In
sisted on my taking the one he had put
on my head / asked him II there was
anything the matter with that hat, and he
said no, but 1t was tho one he picked out
for me as soon as he saw me come In.
Its Hobson's choice, he said. 'WhoseT I
says. 'Hobson's, he says I said didn't
know him. Then he said everybody was
saying 1t, Said 1t was . fad or something
like that, and II I wanted to be strictly
In it, I would take the hat and II anybody
said anything to me about 1t I should say
1t was Hobson's choice and the drinks
would be on the other fellow. So paid
him $3.50 and went away under tho new
hat.
"When I was going up the steps at Park
place station, met an acquaintance, who
says, Where did you get itT WANTED to
be sure he meant the hat, and says
Where did I get whatS' The shed, he
says That threw me of. asked him
what he meant, and be pointed to the
headp.ace and says: THAT You look like
calf under new shed, he says. That's
one of Hobson's, / says. Which TSP he
says. The hat is, says 4 didn't know
HObson was in the hat business, he says. |
Which one Of themf' says. Then he
laughed and poked mo and says, Which
one are you talking aboutr Honest I
says, 'it's Hobson's.' II it's Hobson's,
he says, you'd better take 1t back to him
and tell him to give you your old one.
You don't seem to know about 1t, says,
and then told him about how everybody
was talking about Hobson. He looked at
me and says, You'd better take some
thing for It,
"And then says, All right, come on,
and we went into the first place and we
stood there quite awhile, and when We
went out found 1t had cost mo about 81,
and he hadn't paid anything.
$50 left him and came on up town,
thinking all the way up. Two men were
on the seat In front Of me. couldn't hear
all they said, but one Of them remarked
as his station was called that he s'posed 1t
was Hobson's choice.
"Then looked at my hat to sec If 1t
was all right. 1t seemed as il it was too
small, but put it back and went on to
Forty second street, where got off and
went into lunch place, where met an
other acquaintance. Pretty soon he says,
That was brave thing for Hobson to
do I said Yes You heard about itp
he says Yes, says, and it has cost me
81. so, and you will please sell your gold
bricks to somebody else, says. Don't
take mo for fool all the time, says.
You must be crazy he says. I got no
gold brick, he says. I'm talking about ,
tho brave man who sunk his ship In the ,
harbor.' What's his name9' says. Hob
son, he says. Then got up and took my ,
hat from the peg and showed it to him ,,
md says, Do you sec the hatf' He said
Yes WE'LL says, that's Hobson's
He looked at it and says: Why don't you
wear your own HAITI What are you doing,
he says wearing Hobson's HAITI And
then hit him, and when came to was
here. New York Sun.