The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-06
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zone of the maddcst men | ever saw .,,
ian who has just returned from New Yort II
Frenohman who was trying to take the / trail; ~
drod and Twcnty-hfth street. You know ~. : ~
the guards OF the elevated trains in New Yori Tas
and amenity of demeanor to the public W,n
Frenchman, as one often does reached the 49, ~
form and the cars barely in time to get on nj
but couple of seconds to spare Still. there :.
him TO get on. He had made run for II III ~
landed all right but for the guard The GUARD ~
preston of devilish malice on his face (they a.
way just as the little Freuchman reached 81, !.
railing of the car platform and get,on slam,n., n
his face. Then, the train started rolling rus
leered at the passenger he had foiled and lans5.
'Ha ha The fiery little Frenchman was pot I
meek as the ordinary New Yorker. His eysg q
His teeth clenched, grtted, and then separated 81,
allow the emission of sulphurous sacre H.
Frenchman did more than swear. Like fash 4
his cane into the correct position of the broads.,
guard and before the train had time to null or, 4 a
guard cut one over the shoulder with stnpiro I 4
guard could do nothing, as the train was pulling ~
over the gate he had unceremoniousy closed 4
and shake his fists, | thought the guard had rirbts
what he got and like pood fencing | was t.uol, q
So | yelled out the old sale darrnes cry. when.
made, touched The little Frenchnan turned !. II
smiled and bowed. He was not an angry little T..
any more, but very pleased little Frenchman n
the insult offered him had been duly expiated'
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1T is perfectly wonderful" gentleman rem,a
spent last summer in the mountains of Virginia ~,
can 90 through without being hurt sometimes All Y
other times pin prick will kill him. | was ou !.
Wytheville with friend and some ladies Of his 4,
surrey My friend was driving, and the horses sb
siderable restyeness, my friend suggested that tb h
get out until he had quoted them We walked h
road behind the surrey and | saw, to my alarm N
friend was unwisely driving standing on his feet M
foolish notion that he could get at the horses h.
way. The horses bolted. OF course my friend VI,
head over heels out of the surrey. To our intense
wheels of the surrey passed squarely over my irieS
as he lay prone on his back in the middle of the to.
of the ladies tainted, but thought my duty called
friend, and to him fast as | could You NAV
my surprise when, with the agility of boy and Ii,
tions of a marine, my friend leaped to his feet and
down the road after the runaway team with the ss
prize Splinter. He hadn't been hurt in the least TIKI
somehow had jolted over him. But if it were b Y
again think it extremely likely he would be disenA
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1.-TWO lawyers whom l won't name, got into {, y
not long ago. remarked a we'll known member Of q.
and one told the other in harsher language than
it down that he was not speaking the truth The al
pened in open court, and the judge very properly q
lawyer who had called down for twenty-fom b
contempt of court Some friends of the lawyer who
sent down. including myself, went by his house that
to explain the matter to his wife so that she wolt
worried at her husbands not coming home. You Cas
our establishment when the master of the house met
door in his slippers with the evening paper in Ii {
which he had been engaged in comfortably reah
much domestic peace and enjoyment. We asked biz Z.
had happened, and he told us the story. The dpHf
taking him to Jail, and, they went along, III
proposed they should take little snack of sometimes
This they did, and the lawyer ordered bottle Of "
then another, and the deputy sheriff ye "a
deed. Then the lawyer picked the deputys pocas
commitment called cab and, driving to the jail irA
the deputy the prisoner who had been commieHp
may catch lawyer sometimes, but it is not so eag
to hold him when he's caught. Even when the stog &
the Of the judge he thought it such good i0nh
determined to let the matter rest and not say anha
it, that the lawyer by his wit had fairly earned ~
from punishment"