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Show LOOKING AHEAD. About Leon on Friday laet there was a rush fur tho Fulton Ferry. Heading the eager crowd was an old woman who carried a big market basket in one band and a parasol in the other. As she attempted to paes through tho entrance, the collector, stopped her and said: t "Fare, madam." "What fare?" Bbe asked. "Two centi," he coolly replied. "Before I get on the boat, do you mean?" "Certainly, madam," ,. She put the market-basket down, braced herself against the pushing throng, nnd with eye afire addressed the unfortunate collector. "Do you lake me for a fool?" "No, madam; not at all." "I want you, and the whole caboodle of you, to understand that I have been swindled and Bwiudled all my lifetime, and if you think you can catch uie, you're mistaken. I tell you thai, mister." "But, my dear madam," returned the impatient man, who waB painfully aware of the anathemas that wero hurled at biui by iho waiting crowd, "this is the rule, and 1 can't depart Irom it." "Does everybody pay before they get on the boat?" "Everybody, madam." "But I wou'll" sho shouted, bringing bring-ing her Darasol down on tlie railing. "I'd Bco you to tho mischief before I would. Suppose and most likely it is so that I went on your old boat and fuund tobacco juice all oyer the tloor, and seventeen babiea in the scats, and a man with a broom running run-ning around I never could bear a man with a broom bow could I get back the money that you swindled tne out ot?" "tfut, madam, tho Ure is only two ecu to, and I positively assure you that our boats are clean aud neat, and you'll find everything to your satisfaction," "You'll guarautee that?" "I will, ma'am." "An' I'll get my money back if I get tobacco juice on my dress?" I "Yes, madam, yes." "Tuen," she said, slowly opening her purse, "I'll pay you the two cents; but, ruiud you, if you cheat' me, I'll come back lor that money." j Ani she banded him a five dollar; bill and waited patiently for the chauge, the boat menu while having1 cast oil its moorings and got half way : acrois. Au old bachelor immediately behind be-hind the old woman said: "Oh, heavens! why was my mother a woman?" Another man, with red luir, remarked: re-marked: "I'uah her overboard:" 13 ut a little man, with a bloated face and nngry mien, cried out vocifurously: "Dumb tho old woman dumb her to dutubnationl" Tht Senhy. |
