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Show She Wanted to Trice Tickt-t.i. There was a lice ten feet long at the ticket window iu lie Hudson Paver railroad waiting wait-ing room, an-l the policeman on duty was busy reminding the slower travelers to be brisk with thbir change, when a tall, thin, elderly woman, with spectacles and with a complexion like a halibut, peered in at the -w,--'tVc'j and said: I keepsiefV .- ttcke rr J "Ono dollar forty-seven." "Is that the lowest price?" "Only ono rate." ''Eihia Smith went up last month and only paid one dollar and thirty cents." . "There's been no chango, madam. Do you want a ticket!" "Would I save anything if I went to Peeks-kill, Peeks-kill, got oil and bright another ticket there?" "Costs morn, blurry, madam, thero are others waiting." "Well, I only wanted to price tickets. I never knowed Eliza Smith to tell the truth before, and I just wanted to bo sure that she hadn't hroke no record." Xew York Tribune. |