| Show WANTED A RIDE IN LUNCH GAR I I Confused Citizen the Victim of a Theory that he Had Boarded a Street Car and He Wanted to be Taken Home I I After a vociferous yell he crawled I Into ono of the allnight streetcar I lunch stands and took a scat In a few I moments ho exhibited distinct signs of I i drowsiness iud failed to order anything I any-thing to cat Business was rather quiet however and the proprietor paid but I I little attention to him believing that I everything would be nil right when he I I once more came back to earth But an hour slid away and tho man who runs j I tho pcrlginatlng retaurant was anxious anx-ious to close up and go home Try as he would however he failed to awaken the sleeper and so he hitched on his horso and moved his restaurant to Its accustomed place of repose during the I day Then he again made an effort to awaken the sleeper and he tit last succeeded suc-ceeded In so doing Get up here was the command I have fooled with you long enough and I want to go home So do I If hlc J had not wanted to g1 home why would I have Chile boarded your googlygoogly street car eh Think Im a farmer Well 1 am not by I a mill site and several other old < 1 things Jess diT on and when you come to the corner of Tenth East and Tenth South please hlc sort of slop I you know dont live Just there but thatll do a right cause if I get too near home thf ole woman will catch Oil see and when she witches on there Is always trouble in the family Go ahead Ill pay you when we get there 0 I Then he slumbered peacefully for a few seconds more when a vigorous punch In the ribs brought him back to I consciousness Got there already eh Well goo I bye Will seo you tomorrow when I 1 got my check cached You see tli su I I I perintendent an tell him about It S all right goobyc Then he crawled out and wm gone only for IL moment when he caiiie back with murder In his heart and a club in his hand Why you googlygoogly stick of gum I hlc thought you told me 1 wag home hlc home I told you nothing of the sort explained ex-plained the proprietor of the peregrinating peregrinat-ing feeding station But Chic I fOiay you did was the response I told you where to put me off Why In th googlygoogly didnt y dot S Then did the Ire of the sandwich man arise and he so forgot himself as to tell his guest that he would deem it a personal per-sonal favor and one that he would ever appreciate if he would at once see to It that he would convey himself to that part of the universe which Ingersoll insisted in-sisted does not exist 1 y Whas matter that you talk at me Jn that way = Ill see Head you bet Another equally pressing Invitation followed and then the passenger and the quasi conductor got together The damage Is said to have been mutual so far ns the faces were concerned hut there were a few dishes broken In the seuflle These were settled for yester day and as the bill was paid the man who insisted upon being taken home in a restaurant car registered an oath that he would never diink another drop at least until he had made l arrangements with a hackdrlver to follow him around My friends may think that I am gel ting extravagant he said when they see tho carriage and pair at the door of each saloon that I may enter but I am pf the opinion that such action would bo in the Interests of economy Wonder what that fellow thought of me any how Dont say a blooming word about it to any newspaper please and Ill send you a box of cigars next iiirlstmas |
