The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-13

I want it put in me rooms or in the base
ment
'Of course her idee was to have all the
neighbors rubberneck at them foreign la
bells. After she'd given em bout three
minutes 10 look EN- over, she says: Come
ahead and We takes the box up to her
little old hail room. | was waitin' for her
10 say somethin' bout Me brawses' after
bein over there In old Hingland for fully
twelve days, but she passed that up jes
as she passed up a lot o gear i'm her room
to make a place to put the trunk in.
Don't Like Overtime Charges.
"And the wimmen don't kick over over
time charges, no, not do they? see
when baggage Is allowed 10 stay In the
station morn twenty-four hours after II
gifts in there's a storage charge for every
extra day boxes stay in the baggage room.
The wimmen cant git next to this dee at
all and they won't stand for Il. That u.s.
they say they won't but they always have
to, wen IL comes to show down, jes like
the men. / takes two big leather boxes up
to a northwest house a week or so ago
They'd been in the baggage room three
days, and there was $3.50 charges on 'em,
which it was up TO me to elect or lose
me job. The lady comes to the door when
1 rings the bell,
Two trunks. maam,' says l. Half
dollar for delverin EN- and $3.50 storage
-twoa half
'storage?' says she what's that?'
81 tried to explain IL to her, but she
broke me right off.
" DO you think you can tell me any
such fimsy story as thatT says she, ex-
cited right away. You jes' want that $50
TO put in your pocket for liquor. / know
you do, aud | shall pay nothing of the
sort
II can't go back without 1t, ma am
says l. rs moi my faut. The trunks was
at the station for three days and
"'You just bring those trunks In here
this mint she says and I'll pay you the
half dollar for delverin 'em, and not one
penny more
{" ia dose me job, ma am, if did that
says !.
James she calls back I wish you
would come down here this instant and
thrash this impudent ruffian' / fggered
c rect that James was her husband and
says / TO meself, Jim, don't know nothin'
bout how good you are on the scrap, but
if you come down here a-huntin' for trou-
bic and take your wifes view of this
thing, there's a-gOih to be fight, and
you've got TO know how 10 fight, because
] jes' happen to need me job until after
the holidays. anyhow
whats all this row about?' says her
husband, a good-natured looliin' chap
when he comes downstairs in a smokln'
coat.
"'rhis man has some cooked-up story
bout storage charges " she saws 10 him
and he's tryn' to extort a dollar n half
out o me jes' because my trunks were
down at the station for three days, and
That's not a cooked-up story broke
in her husband He's right and you're
wrong. He's follyin orders. Can't you tell
a con man when you see him% he said,
GRIMM.
"'Weg III never pay ii in the wide
world so there, nowH she says. I'm never
permit meself to be imposed on that way
III just die first. that's what
"Wen, you're worth a few more'n dol
lar'n half to mccall il two says she
husband GRIMM again. and he hands me
the money and we packs in the trunks
That lady'l go 10 her grave beievin' I'm
a thief.
1--WE had bad twenty minutes out at
Columbia II gifts house the other mornin.
Chased out here with five big trunks, and
four ladies' stood on the steps and oversscd
us Told as az a. onct that If we lei the
trunks down hard cut o the wagon they'd
report us, and they buldozod us from the
mint l rung The ben until we got away
The limit. though, was when we were TAX
in the frst trunk upstairs. II was mar
row stairway, and the trunk, bsin' big
young house. was a tight it,
Mind the wall paper says the ladies
all a once.
'Yes'm' says me ana my helper. pant
in and gruntin' up the stairs
'Don't YOU men scrape those bannis-
tersn they warned us az the first landin'
Nom, saws we.
WED got the big box almost up to the
second iand'n'. wen heard q screechin
and a sciesmln' from all four Of 'em that
ike 4 made me drop my end o The trunk
ard run for u. Thought there was mad
dog loose IN The house.
Anything The matter, ma amp says I,