The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-19
BENTON, BOSSER PARISH, La. THURSDAY 10,

bafIled. He seesawed on the mizzen-
mast of his craft as safe as a steeple-
jack rugged to the tiagpole Of a sky
scraper
''Step in, lady," said Jerry, gather
ing his lines.
The young woman stepped into the
cab. the doors shut with bang, Jer-
| ry's whip cracked in the air. the crowd
in the gutter scattered. and the fine
hanson dashed away crosstown.
When the oat spry horse had hedged
little his first squirt Of speed Jerry
| broke the lid of his cab and called
down through the aperture in the voice
! of cracked megaphone trying to
please:
Where, now, will We be drivin' to:'
Anywhere you please" came up
the answer, musical and contented.
"'Tis drivin' for pleasure she is,"
thought Jerry. and then he suggested
as Il matter Of course:
Take thrip around in the park.
lady. Twill be Elegant cool and fine."
Just as you like" answered the
fare pleasantly.
The cab headed for Fifth avenue and
sped up hat perfect street. Jerry
bounced and swayed in his seat. The
potent fluids of McGary were disquiet-
ed. and they sent new fumes to his
head.
He sang all ancient song Of Kills
nook and brandished his whip like q
baton
Inside the cab the fare sat up
straight on the cushions, looking to
right and left at the lights and houses.
Even in the shadowed hanson her
eyes shone like stars at twilight.
When they reached Fifty-ninth street
Jerry's head was bobbing and his
reins We're slack But his horse turn
ed in through the park gate and be-
gan the old familiar nocturnal round.
And then the fare leaned back, en-
tranced, and breathed deep the clean,
wholesome odors Of grass and leaf and
bloom And the wise beast in the
shafts. knowing his ground, struck
into his by the hour gait and kept to
the right Of the road.
Habit also struggled successfully
against Jerry's increasing torpor. He
raised the hatch of his storm tossed
vessel and made the inquiry that cab
bies do make in the park.
like shtop at the Cas-sino, lady
Gezzer rfreshm's. u lish'n the music.
Ev'body shtops."
Il think that would be nice," said
the fare.
They reined up with plunge at the
Casino entrance. The cab doors few
open.
The fare stepped directly upon the
floor. At once she was caught in well
of ravishing music and dazzled by q
panorama Of lights and colors. Some
one slipped little square card into hel
hand ON which was printed Il number
"a.
She looked around and saw her cat
twenty yards away, already lining uE
in it's place among the waiting mass
of carriages, cabs and mOtorcars
And then man who seemed to be al
: shirt front danced backward before
J, her, and next she was seated ut a lit
!. tie table by railing over which climb
e ed jasmine vine.
= There seemed to be wordless invi
a tation to purchase She consulted
0 collection of small coins i'll thil
purse and received from them iicens'
D to order glass of beer.
4 There she sat, inhaling and absorb
s ing it all, the new cOlOred, new shapes
i life in a fairy palace in an enchanted
wood.
? At fifty tables sat princes AM
e queens clad in all the silks and gem
y Of the world. And now and then on
e of them would look curiously at Jer
n rvs fare.
They saw plain figure dressed IN
n pink silk of the kind that is tempere'
), by the word ''foulard' and plai
e face~that wore a look Of love of lif
II that the queens envied.
Y Twice the long hands of the clock
went round Royalties thinned frOI