Salt Lake Herald | 1890-10-18 | Page 5 | The Porter in His Palace

The Porter in His Palace I A gentleman who was traveling on a Bleeping car and who was to alight at I about threa in the morning gave the porter I explicit directions to wale him at the proper time und went to sleep About midnight mid-night the porter came and aroused him Excuse me sah the porter said but I I forgut whareyous goin to get of The passenger not much pleased at this I interruption repeated his directions and then again addressed himself to sleep He I slept until a few minutes of the arrival Of I the train at the point where he was to stop when he fortunately awoke Looking at his watch ho discovered that he had barely I time to get dressed and he scrambled into t clothes with a celerity that saved him e tom missing His statlorj all the time saying say-ing to himself things concerning the porter which were by no means complimentary to that individual As the train drew into the station where I it made n stop of only a moment the gentleman l tleman hurried out of the car and n r 1 did so passed the porter sound asleep on u i teat in the smoking room With si poke i of his valiso the pjtssengpr awakened him j J say he demanded why didnt you call me as I told you t02 I came very near sleeping over The porter drew himself up with sleepy dignity suppressing a aw and rubbing his eyes open IOn I-On dis car he returned with the air of one who had been grossly insulted dar ain t none of the passengers lowed to wake up the porter an youll have to wait till d individual wakes up qf himself before you can get any such qnestionsanswcred With perfect coolness he laid himself clown again and the passenger hurried out of the car without waiting to continue tho conversation Boston Courier