Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-16
She Wanted to Think.


She Wanted to Think.
Were do you want 1t taken, ma am p
1 asked her
Well, she rested the elbow of her right
arm in the palm of her left hand, and put
her right forefinger on her lip
" Let me think, says she.
I'VE on'y had twenty-seven trunks down
in the wagon waitin' to be delivered while
she did her think, but she didn't mind a
little thing like that. So We stands on one
leg and then on the other while she thinks
guess IL have to move things around
some IN that middle room before / have it
brought in she says, after awhile Can
you drop by here agin' in bout hour?'
II wanted to tell her that me balloon was
out @ order, like the elevator but, instead
tes' says:
What for, ma'am?'
why, she says, I'll have the servant
clear out that middle room by the time YOU
git back. and then you can come up ana
put t the trunk in there for me-
well, she wanted all that was a-oomip.
to her, didn't she? l guess she's got that
middle room cleared out by this time. and
We ha gone back there and put that box
IN MI. IT 1or her If we hadn't ha' forgot her
address. Oh, yes, yis, yah, we would ha-"
or course, she gave you liberal t:p?'
Ventured The Star man.
me baggage 1uggler executed back-fan
from sitting posture on the taiIbCard of
his wagon, and his sides heaved.
Shy on Tips.
Don't make me larf-I've got heartburn"
he said when he got back to a sitting
posture. "Wimmen tippin', hey? Say, if l
never smoked cigarette until one O. the
Wlmmen tipped me the price of a bunch of
EN-, d git some o this yaller off me fng-
ers. Wlmmen tip trunk chuckero Stop
your k1ddln. Wait minnit, though. I'm
Ierglttln Las week me an me helper
lugged eight big ones TO a purity nifty look
In house in the swell quarter uptown
They b longed to a lady and her two daugh-
tiers. 1t was bout half hours heavy work
to git EN- all slowed away in the store
room on the third floor, and says we TO our
selves, seem a lot O. filled-up decanters
ana glasses and things on the sideboard in
the dlhln room as We go upstairs with the
trunks, Here's Were we haul down a hoot
IN good drink o some kind or other, any
how The lady and her two daughters
stood over US W lie we packed the big boxes
upstairs, and told US we We're strong. and
we fggered that the drinks was as good as
under our belts already, ain'd it? Well,
Wen we got all through with the last how
planted away in the store ROOM and got
downstairs, one O the purity daughters was
waitin' for us at the door. She passes us A
little present. "
Little sooverneers O. one o. the places
Were We've been this summer saws she
still smilin' lovely and handin' the things
to us.
They were little round pieces O. paste
board like badges. with piece O. red cord
passed through hole in the top O. them
printed on one side o them was these
words:
Have you shot the chutes?'
Thanks, ma'am,' says We solemn like
and we didn't let out holler until we got
the wagon down to the mex block Then
we lay back and whooped SO that a con
on the corner thought we was drunk and
looked us over with the idea O. pinchfn' us.
L give the badge to me fox terrier pup
and he ate it, string and all.
Back From Europe
Couple O. days ago we chased a leather
steamer trunk up to the boardin' house of
a lady that had been maxim one O. these
here syndicate, hundred In "a bunch, per
'nally-conducted tours O. Europe The
trunk was all pasted over with them for
eign labels, with a. lot o. Dutch and Dago
names on 'em. We got the trunk up to her
bCardln house long bout half-past in
the afternoon, zen all the neighbors was
a-sittn' out in front on benches an chairs
The young woman that owned the trunk
steps waitin' for the trunk. Wen we got
1t into the front yard says she:
g. Jes put it down vile 1 think w'ether
I want it put in me rooms in the base
ment.'
"Of course, her idee was to have all the
neighbors rubberneck at them foreign la
bells. After she'd given EN- bout three
minutes to look EN- over, she says: Come
ahead and we takes the box up to her
little old hall room. l was waitin' for her
to say somethin' bout Me brawsses' after
bein' over there in old Hingland for fully
twelve days, but she passed that up, les
as she passed up the word Thanks after
we'd moved a lot O. gear in her room to
make a place to put the trunk in.
Don't Like Overtime Charges.
time charges. no. not, do they? Y'see.