The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-09-02

Their Names Were MIllie and TilIie."
was sleeping as noisily as possible.
and when started up the stepladder |
he began to render Mendelssohn's
obbligato for the trombone in the key |
of G.
Above the roar OF the train from
away of in lower No family could
hear an answering bugle call.
climbed up prepared for the worst
and in the twinkling of an eye the
porter removed the stepladder and
there / was, sitting on the perilous
edge Of my pantry shelf with nothing
to comfort me save the exhaust Of q
professional snorer.
After about five minutes devoted to
a parade Of all my sins, l began to
try to extract my personality from my
coat, but when pushed my arm up
in the air 70 get the sleeve loose my
knuckle struck the hardwood finish
and | fell backward on the cast.iron
pillows, breathing hoarsely like
busy iackrabbit.
waited about ten minutes while
nv brain was bobbing back and forth
with the excitement of running fifty
miles an hour over a careless part OF
the country, and then cautiously
tried to approach my shoe laces.
! Say! If you're q man and You
weigh in the neighborhood OF zoo
pounds, most of which is in the re-
gion of the equator, you viii appre'
ciate what It means to lie on your
back in an upper berth and try to get
your shoes or
And this goes double for the man
who weighs more than 200 pounds
Every time l reached for my feel
to get my shoes on bumped my
head off; so decided that in ordel
TO keen my head on had better keel
my shoes on also.
Then tried to divorce my suspend
ars from my shoulders but just as
got the suspenders half way over M
head | struck my crazy bone on thu
rafters. and there | was. suspenderet
between heaven and earth, but pray
ing with all my heart for bottle Q
arniea
Finally | decided to sleep as ma
tire made me, with all my clothes on
including my rubbers.
So / stretched out. but just then Tn
train struck a curve and went up L
the air till the ceiling hit me, an
then I bounced over to the edge 9
tbe precipice and hung there, tren
T. bling on the verge.
BELOW me all was dark and gloom!
T. and only by the hoarse groans OF IN
n snorers could | tell that the Pullma
= company was still making money.
e Luck was with me. however. for iui
then the train struck an in-snoS
o curve which pushed me to the wa.
q and | bumped my head so comple'cl
, that fell asleep.
When I woke up q small packae
A Of daylight was peeping into the ca
so decided to descend from my Gu
board shelf at once.
: peeped out through the aluminn
. curtains but there was no sign
tbe eolored porter and the stepiaad'
-,as Invisible to the naked eye.
2 The car was peaceful now. with u
y execution of a gent in lower NO.
IS S-ho had A strange hold on Be
thoven sonata and was beating u
u cadence out OF 1t.
$ made a short prayer ana cohsiu
IS "a m fall out, but Just then one OF u
re feet rested on something solid 50
mt both feet on It and began 70 81
! down. -. n
Il, NV weight on II my stepping so
rave way and fen overheard WIN
10 How dare you put your feet On .
head yelled the man on the sfoul
OF moor of my bedroom.
- ~Fxcuse me. Il felt Ike sometnh
ID wooden.r whispered. while aasn
= madly for the smoker.
r-or, that day TO this have nev
- h.er able 10 look a Pullman car ID I
go ana whenever anybody mentio
a an upper berth to me ! lose ny pi'
% s. $50 ~ mind and get peeTish-
" ~ Won have ever been there yO'
IN lie know you don't blame me-
40 Do you?