News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-10-18
THE MAN FROM BOSTON.

Ills Conversation Revealed His Residence
to the Occupants of the Car.
1t was plain to see that the fat
faced man with the short clay pipe
and the bent straw hat on tic zear
seat of the open car was anxious to
talk. He shifted about nervously in
his seat, spat tentatively at marks on
the receding pavement several times,
and eyed slantwise the sour looking,
side whiskered, cold eyed, primly
dressed man alongside him.
Purity warm, amt it?" he finally
said.
"Um-I don't feel warm" replied
the sour looking man.
The man who wanted to talk dug
penknife into the bowl of his pipe
and began again:
"Certnly are putin II on that poor
Dreyfus man, amt they" u
Don't know that they are; probab-
ly he deserves all he's got, and more"
1t was somewhat remarkable
statement for a citizen Of this country
to give vent to, but that fat faced man
who hankered 10 talk wasn't easily
discouraged
"Bum ball team we've got, amt tt?'
he asked.
81 am not interested in ball, indiffer-
ent or otherwise"
The man with the sawed off pipe
didn't say anything more for a while.
but when the car gave jolt rounding
a curve, he said:
"Kind of a rocky road to Dublin,
amt it,"
81 don't know anything about Dub
lin; never been there" replied the
sour visage man.
The stout featured man wasn't
downed yet, however, and he went on:
"Be great times around here when
Dewey gets back to us, won't they?"
I'm sure I don't see why there
should be-" was the chcppy reply.
dewey just did what he was ordered
to do; what it was his duty to do and
business to do, and what he was paid
to do. Dent see why any particular
fuss should be made over his arrival"
The man with the pipe looked
straight ahead for a while, and then
he opened up again:
Think they'll put Bryan at the
head of the ticket AGAIN." he inquired.
Don't know anything about It.
Gwen if they do, it looks like a
cinch for Mckinley, don't it?'
ct doesn't bother me, one way or
the ether"
Funny game, that little 1O-cent Van
Wyck boom the Tammany ducks 'er
tryin' to put through in New York,
amt it "
New York politics do not interest
me-"
"seem t. be shapin things up some
down in Cuba, spose you've
noticed?"
81 haven't noticed anything of the
sort"
The fat faced man looked to be
somewhat squelched for while, but
after the car had gone few squares
he opened up again.
Seem Ue udNln SOLu0 LlOuDAS
roundin' up that cheap gezebu of a
blatherslzite, Aguinaldo, down there in
the Philippines, amt they?"
The sour visage man bridled.
"Blatherskite!" he exclaimed. turn-
ing haughtily upon the fat faced man.
"You don't know what you are talk
ing about. He's the champion Of an
outraged people, and you'll find that
when the iron heel of popular vote
is placed upon the neck of the admin
istration that is responsible for this
infamous persecution of men strug-
Cling fer their liberty that
But the fat faced man had reached
his getting off place. AS he clutched
the stanchion, preparatory to hop
ping off. he looked the sour visaged
man square in the eye, grinned, and
asked
Hey, mister, how are things up
| around Boston, anyhow"
With which Parthian dart he got
of. -Waehington Star.