The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-25

seat. 'Nicodemus.' he said, give this boy
a dollar
The negro grinned and turning to tho
box beside him he opened It. II was really
run OF money and valuables. He took il
and walked up the car / was still sur
prised. AZ the door | looked back at them.
and everybody laughed at me for some rea-
son-all except the young men; that Is.
they never even smiled, during the whole
performance
Well l filed up my basket with prize
packages and came back through the train.
Nobody bought any of them. When [
reached the southerner, however, he said.
Excuse me, sir, and grabbing the basket
again he sent the prize packages after the
peanuts. He handed me my basket and SAT
back without smile, but everybody else
laughed again. | did not yell this time.
simply said, Look here, mister do you
know how much those are wortnT'
No said he; how much?"
Wen, there We're three dozen and four
az ten cents for each one not to mention
the prizes IN some Of them
Oh, he said: 'Nicodemus, count IN how
much the boy ought to have and give IL TO
him.
The negro opened his box and gave me
-FOUR dollars and again went away with
the empty basket, while the passengers
laughed.
Next brought In some morning papers
and nobody bought these either. Somehow
che passengers had caught the spirit of the
thing and as it cost them nothing they APP
parently did not wish to deprive thosa
Southerners OF their fun. / was watchful
when came to the young bioods this time
and | carried the papers so they could
grab them easily. Sure enough the nearest
one threw them out of the window after
the other things. / sal on the edge of a
seat and laughed myself. oh, you settle
with Nicodemus, he said, and Nlcodemus
settled up.
job Lot.
Then ! had an idea. / went into the
baggage car and got every paper / could
ind | had lot of that days stock and
over 100 returns of the day before which
! was going 10 turn In at the end of the
run. The whole lot was so heavy that
i could Just manage to carry IL on my
shoulder. When / staggered into the la
dies car and called Paperp in the usual
drawing way the passengers fairly
shreked with laughter. / thought the
Southerner would back down, but he new
err fiinched. He just grabbed those pa
pers and hurled them out of the window
by the armful. We could see them fly-
ing behind the train like great white birds
you know we had blanket sheets then
and they spread themselves out over the
landscape In a way that must have start
led the rural population of the district.
1 got over ten dollars for all my papers
THAT dandy was game. Look here,
boy he said, when the passengers had
seen the last of those papers float around
curve; have you anything else on
boards?
Nothing except the basket and my
box replied.
Well, bring In those, too
You remember the big three by four
boxes they used to give us 10 keep our
goods In? Well, ] put the basket In the
box and turned IL over and over down
the aisle of the car TO where the fellow
sat. He threw the basket out of the win
dow, but the box was too big 10 go that
way. So he ordered Nleodemus 20 throw
It off the rear platform. 1 charged him
SO for that box. When IL had gone he
turned TO me and said:
How much money have you made to-
dav?"
Il counted over SIS Nicodemus had given
me.
+" Now he said, are you sure you have
nothing more TO sell?'
Il would have brought In the smoking
car stove IL IL had not been hot. But 1
was compelled to say there was really
nothing more
very wenr ana then with change
In his tone he turned to the negro and
said: 'Nlcodemus, throw this boy out OF
the Window
"The passengers shrieked with laughter.
but l got out of that car pretty quick.
can tell you. That fellow was thorough
bred and / believe he would have done a..
even II his niger had refused. which was
not likely"
And the face Of the inventor wore a half
amused. half regretfui smile az this vision
OF his irain-boy days.
Mrs. Victoria Blanchard. IS years oAa