The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-08-27

and the answer came: will send an
other cab to relieve you. Orders are
to wait"
Jerry turned his horses head stable
ward.
When night came and with it no
sign of Peter Ruggles, messenger
was sent to that gentleman's home for
instructions, to learn that the house
keeper had closed up the mansion and
gone to her sisters.
Again the Bronson Stables referred
to the written order of their patron.
and as It stated positively that the cab
was to wait, the cab waited, Jerry ia
king the relief watch through the fol
lowing night with the same cab that
had driven Ruggles to the North sta.
ton.
Another day passed and no Peter
Ruggles appeared; then another; then
still another, the two cabs and their
drivers waiting in turn Then week
passed-two weeks-three weeks-One
month! At the end of the month a
bill for 81 days and nights Of cab hire
was filed against Peter Ruggles, less
10 per cent. discount for monthly serv-
ice.
Down in Maine, Peter Ruggles, his
old classmate, and a certain young
lady with large gray eyes, were en-
gagged in hunting for an exceedingly
rare specimen of-beetle-and anoth-
err month of delightful spring weather
passed quickly by. Meantime Jerry
and his relief, as well as the two cab
horses, had fallen quite in love with
their peaceful and meditative occupa-
ton Of waiting, and, in the beautiful
line Of Milton, they felt how true it
is that they also serve who only
stand-or sit-and wait"
The first of July came, and still tho
cabs waited in their turn-how many
stables could be depended upon to
serve their customers so faithfully?
then came the glorious Fourth,
when Jerry's horse attempted for the
first time to run away.
What il he should not be waiting
when Peter Ruggles returned. Jerry
gasped at the thought. Then week
succeeded week, until the thirty first
of July had passed, when a third
monthly bill for cab service was
charged to the account Of Peter Rug
giles.
On the morning of the second OF
August as Jerry nodded peacefully on
his box, gentleman leading lady
by the arm came toward him from one
of the doors of the North station. In a
moment the man on the box was all
alert He leaped down from his seat
and opened the cab door, and Ruggles
for the gentleman was none other
than Peter Ruggles-came forward
and haiing Jerry as if he had been
gone scarcely ten minutes instead of
three long months gently deposited the
lady in the cab. Then entering the ve
hicle, holding in one hand box which
no doubt contained specimens of GER
tain exceedingly rare beetles, Peter
Ruggles thrust out his head with the
brief direction, Home, jerry
"Yis, sor; home'' Jerry climbed
upon bis box and, cracking his whip
loudly, drove down the street.
The next morning at breakfast Rug
giles found bill beside his plate. 1t
read as follows:
Peter Ruggles, Esq.
To Bronson Stables, DR..
For cab services from three p. m.
70,
>, 1906
% days hours; at $40 per days $500
90 nights; at 81 per night........... l,ll6.O0
$2O4l.D0
Less 1870 monthly discount.......... 2O4,lO
1886 80
Ruggles studied the bill awhile, then
wrote across its face: Mistake. Have
been away from home three months
He rang for the butler, and gave
him the bill. Thompson, take this to
the Bronson Stables
The following morning Rugges
again found the bill beside his plate.
1t was accompanied this time by a
brief note, which read
Peter Ruggles. Esq.-Dear Sir: We
quote your order of May l-"Send Jerry
with cab to my house to take me to the
North Station to see a friend off, and
wait till | return"
Jerry and the cab waited.
Respectfully,
THE BRONSON STABLES.
Ruggles' hand went to his vest
pocket. "Ah." he exclaimed. so
Jerry and the cab waited. Very we'll
He took out a pencil and O. KID the
bill. Then, addressing the young lady
with large gray eyes, who was seated
opposite him, he said:
Dearest, | only wish this bill were
larger, for then our honeymoon would
have been longer"
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