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Show l-uasral) Oirp !.. r.-.-iVlju lllldxa. On Hi" flriMjktyu side of tliu bridm nno day I saw n email of cerulnly 200 luperstllloua persi.ns awaiting tlio mating mat-ing of ii proc. aaliui. It "aa n vciy luinr pria-eeaioti. A luiiiilier of tlioao who waitnl were evidently unnoyial at llio delay, nnd wlien lp rear vlikle IumI lauatal they ran to make up Hie lime which superstition had caused thwu to lose. "Iloet that nlaj. occur wlini n fu rioral infiap-lii la pasting I" I nskitl ol n bridge policeman. "Oil, )w," lio answered. "Some-times "Some-times there, umro uud toinctltneit less, but I tloti't bellevo n funeral ever i-rosaed the bridge without aomoboil ttoliplug." "Wli ii I first cauiii on tho brlilgc," he wont ou, "I didn't understand It- I ti-H to stop the cArrlage. iitnl motion to tlio people to croaa over, lint they wnulJn't. They'd aUml na If lliey wero glued. 1 don'. bother about 'cm now. One day as n funeral procession was leaving the roadway a couple uf (.'iris cnttio U One uf Ihciu stopped. Tho other ran ncrues. " 'Oh, Maintel' shouted thei ono who had stopped, 'you have cruased a fori fo-ri trot.' " 'OooJnes. inc,' say. Maud.', 'wliat'll I ilor "'Coum back quick beforo tt gets by, sit). th- other mi", and Mamlo ran over In frout uf the last carriage. "I supi-osc," said the trtilicemati, "tliey tlmuxlit that would put tha klbosli on the lioodoo." iS'ow Turh UerolJ. |
