The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-02-01
A WASHINGTON RUNAWAY.



of the country where runaways are
common. A man left the capitol and
looked down the hill by the Peace mon
ument, and turned into that strip of
Pennsylvania avenue which has no
crook in it,. AT the place where an en-
ploye of the traction company manip-
ulates the shifting Of the current by
which the yellow car goes in one direc-
ton and the green car goes in another,
the man from the capitol stopped and
asked question. The employe got up
from his chair and moved over toward
the south side of the street before he
replied.
''Why did you have to shift your place
before you answered my question:"
asked the man who had come from the
capitol.
''To get out of the way of that runa-
way horse" was the reply.
The man from the capitol looked
about him and then said he saw no rum
away horse.
.You wait here long enough and
you'll see him" was the rejoinder.
HE can't be coming very rapidly"
said the man from the capitol, who,
having received an answer to the orig
inal inquiry, resumed his walk. At the
end of ten minutes walk he went into
a cigar shop. The proprietor got out of
acamp chair on the sidewalk, picked up
the chair and took il inside, and then
i waited on his customer.
do You carry your chair with you
1 when you move?" asked the customer.
depends" was the reply. ''When
see horse running away and the chair
is on the line of the gallop take the
chair in. No use of letting runaway
horse smash chair just cause you got
AZ chair"
| ;''Is there runaway?"
| eff you stop here long enough you'll
/ find out. He was canterin' right lively
when / saw him."
81 heard up the street that there was
a runaway, but I saw none."
"Just the same, there is one. Better
stop in for few minutes"
i The stranger, however, decided to
proceed. When he reached the Han.
cock station policeman said to him:
| '.Better step around the statue.
There is a runaway coming, and run
away horse has no sense"
The stranger thanked the policeman
and crossed over. Then he looked back
n the direction of the capitol. but saw
no unusual commotion. He continued
his walk, and halted at venerable tree
| on the corner, and again looked back
over the avenue. He wen: into another
| cigar store, bought cigar, read the
weather bulletin and passed out. He
walked over to the east front of the
treasury building. A gang of negroes
were at work patching the asphalt. The
4 foreman said:
b Better knock off, boys, for minute
and step up on the walk. hear there's
runaway coming"
T. The gang stepped aside deliberately
and the foreman sat on the step and
4 scratched his head. The stranger con.
cluded to see it out. After ten min.
lutes' wait the gang resumed work. The
stranger said to the foreman:
0oASOOuy must nave uCd0cu On TIA
runaway"
9 "Don't know bout that. Maybe so
But he was goin' right lively when he
passed here. Didge see him ?"
. "See him-the horse 2"
"Why. to be sho'. Jest past up and
swung round by the bank
"You mean the horse that boy wa.
IRVING
"Drisin'? That boy was tryin' to
tketch up: he want drivin'."
WAS that runaway %
That was fust-class runaway, If I'm
any jedge."
rs that sample Of Washington
runaway horse? p
"Don't know bout that; but eff YOU
4 Ian is that the gait Of runaway hoss
lin Washington, Tn bound to say It'll
Ahout up to the average. N. r. Sun.
Does Net Always XIII.
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