| Show I SHE DIDNT PAY I I The Large Woman Gave the Conductor I Conduc-tor Several Pieces of Her Mid New York World That check isnt good on this line of cars madam said the conductor curtly lo a large combative com-bative i looking woman who had boarded the car with a squirming blackandtan terrier under her arm What she said tossing her plumed head like a warhorse sniffing battle I from afar That exchange check is no good on this line Id like to know why it isnt Because its only good on outward bound cars and this is an inward bound car The car starter gave i to me You should have told him in which direction you were going Id like to know why I should Why didnt he ask me which way I was going go-ing Id like to know I was not his place to ask you that thatOh Oh it wasnt aich But it was my place to tell him where I was going was i aigh I spose I ought to have told what I was going for and when I was coming back and how old I was and where I was born and if I was married or single and whats my husbands hus-bands business and how much he got and how many children we had and their ages and i I believed in worn ans suffrage and if I Fare please madam My fare Well L like that You can stand there and hold out your hand until the crack of doom but not another fare do I pay Theres the check the starter gave me Take i 1 or leave it I you think Im going to pay for the mistakes employees of this car line make you are very much mistaken very much mistaken sir Put me off if you think its healthy to I do it You can drag me out and fling i J me over the dashboard into the street 1 but another fare I dont pay Oh its your duty to collect a fare from every passenger aish Well youve got a I passenger aboard now that you dont collect another fare from duty or no duty Awful conscientious habit about I duty now aint you La me yes You ought to write a tract and call i True to His Duty or The Faithful Car Conductor and mebbe youd better write another one and call it She Wouldnt Pay Her Fare or She Went to Perdition Ill give you my photograph photo-graph for that one I do love to encourage en-courage anyone trying to do their duty as hard as you are trying to do yours Always do your duty and you will be j happy Sorry I cant help you along j by paying my fare over again but I I dont intend to pay i if you get fired for not coming up to the scratch on the I duty business Mutter if you want toGo to-Go out there on the platform and growl I and abuse me if youve a mind to Report Re-port me to the company if you like Id enjoy an interview with the company first rate Id tell em some things they aint found out yet about how to run a street railway Let em know they couldnt bulldoze or badger me into in-to paying two fares for one ride Ive paid my fare once and I shant pay it again And she didnt |
