Show The Honor of tho Thing Dick DArcy having come up from Con nemara to a hotel in Dublin was offered a sedan chair by the waiter as a comfortable mode of gettiug to a ball Though he hu never seen or heard of such a conveyance lie ordered and entered it only to find that by some mistake it had no bottom However How-ever thinking it an elaborate metropolitan tan umbrella for the night was wethe made no complaint and was hurried at n headlong pace by the bearers who were amazed at the lightness of their load down the muddy streets to his destination Here breathless battered black and blue and bespattered to the taco with mud he ducked from under this last invention of civilization and gasped out as he eyed his plastered clothes Faith if it wasnt for the honor of the thing Id as lief have walked1 Life of Lever |