| Show I 1 u i r ih HE WAS IN A HURRY only four adya dya to spend abroad and all europe to afee speaking of being in a hurry said a traveler to a new york sun man reminds me of a man I 1 once saw in the tower of london one of a little party that was being piloted through by a beefeater he kept all the time just ahead of the pilot and seemed anxious to go faster and get through everybody else wanted to see everything but this man would have liked to skip some of these things still he say anything for the pilot made good time right along until he came to the figure of a big man on a big horse both in heavy armor and the man holding a great spear a most impressive figure representing I 1 forget now who but somebody famous in history and the beefeater talked a little longer than usual here the man who was in a hurry broke in yes yes he said all right but wo cant stand here all day looking at that you know and he moved a little aad waited all ready to go on we all hoped anat the beefeater would pay no attention to him we need have had no fear on that score for he paid absolutely no attention whatever to him an hour or two later we stood at tho gate and bade the beefeater goodby good by the impatient man and I 1 walked away together lie the worst man in the world by any means he was from boston he said he was a busy man and had very little time to spare he was back in the steamer he came over in ard as he had only four days to do europe in he really felt as though he ought not to spend half a day in the tower |
