The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-06-29
I'LL LUCK WAS His LOT.
SUCCESSION OF MISH4PS
uEAPED UPON Il TISITOR.


"A young man jumped off the trail
last evening and hailed hack to brins
him up town. He was from near Wv
ingston and was dressed in fine sui
of broadcloth, black as Egypt and full
of stylish creases. His shirt front sen
the sun behind cloud and his crava
frightened a laundry team to the poin
of running away with it's reckless dri
Yer. His hat was broad of brim ant
pale of color, deep furrow running
Its entire length.
He came when his star was descend
ing. The horses drawing the hack he
hailed splashed mud on his clothes, ant
heswore in true cowboy fashion. deer
and intense. The driver of the hack
was DESTROYS Of apologizihg for his
thoughtless cayuses, and he turned his
head slightly and released the flood
gate of his tobacco juice reservoir sc
that he might speak with clear enun-
citation, as is his wont on all occasions
for hack drivers are polite. A gust of
wind which, of course, the Livingston
man didn't notice, for it blows con-
stantly in the Park county metropolis,
they say, lifted a smattering of the
Juice up and tossed it flippantly on to
the visitors white shirt front. This
caused q renewal of the blasphemy,
which, by the way, was making him
solid with the hackle for hackle also
likes a hear good, clean, Ineligible
cussing.
The cab door didn't respond to the
nf ,t +.
"yanked" it furiously for he was mud
and tobacco hot, so to speak. In the
suddenness of the jerk the man from
Livingston lost his equilibrium and he
met rather unceremoniously the sticky
face Of Mother Earth at a spot where
horses hoofs had churned it into
sect thing pool of liquid mud
The hackman promptly came to the
mans assistance, but he might better
have remained on the box, for the Liv-
ingston man was in no humor to accept
the sympathy of the driver.
The visitor dismissed the hackman
with a terrible exclamation that actu-
ally turned hissnecktle pale and made
the tobacco stain on his bosom change
it's luster to a dark, unpretentious
brown.
A piece Of shingle assist ed the unfor-
tunate sightseer to remove the initial
coat of mud from his suit and he start
ed to walk up to the city. Tripping
lightly down the sidewalk came two
pretty milliners, apparently Obvious
to all things save their own Importance.
They did not see the detected spirit
xxyift, etc bo
street, but the latter saw them and he
fastened to give them the sidewalk.
In doing so he indiscreetly stepped off
at a point where the walk overhangs a
corner Of an excavation for sewer and
he went down to additional distress.
The girls Uttered and swept by, leav-
ing the Livingstone man up to his
waist in contemplation and sand moist
ened by the rains Of month.
1t was no easy task to pull himself
out of that hole and in doing it he said
some things which evidently grated
harshly on the ears of a black dog that
was eating bone that had just
dropped from a market wagon. The
cur, with shameful audacity, caught
the slack of the mans trousers and /
rent them with a disregard for proprie
ty displayed only by the beasts of prey.
A negro porter fastened to the mans
but just before he reached
the unfortunate mans side he heard |
him say something about a black ras-
,al and his pity straightway turned |
into a resolve to assist the dog The |
result was additional trouble and
black eye for the visitor.
The negro was finally persuaded that
1e was in error and there followed a
reconciliation that lasted two hours in
he back room of convenient saloon.
When the visitor left that place he was
n mood to forget all his troubles,
ind the first man he saw on the side
walk was a policeman, who asked him
many questions. The story was told
md the policeman and the good-na-
ured man from the windy gateway
lad few drinks out of the same bot
e. They said good by" in a happy
manner and the sightseer started up
own. 1t was now dark and the de-
VERY wagons were Earring the earth
With their haste over the Saturday
light csene. The man from Livings-
on crossed a street just in time to
atch the tall end Of a grocery wagon
8 1t shot out of the alley into the street
nd he went down in ball that resem-
led roll of blankets washed ashore
rom June freshet. He struggled to
is feet and when he finally reached |
he sidewalk he stumbled and fell into
he arms of lady who had been .
hopping, and whose arms were full of
arcels. He tried to apologize but the
ldy left him in a passion.
Completely overwhelmed with sorrow
nd remorse, mud and chagrin, the /,
ghtseer sought refuge for the moment G
/ silent meditation on the curbstone. /
The city garbage wagon came along
nd he hailed the driver He gave him 6
ne dollar to haul him out of town and g
lat is the last seen of the man with s
le new suit of clothes, the loud tie i
nd the picturesque hat who had come c
} town to have his picture TAKEN S
naconda Standard.
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