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Show . , r ...... "Certainly!" , ' ) "And you held up your band?" "Yes sir!'',.,., ;.. "And waved it?' '! "Of course, I waved it!" . , , . : "Very singular, ma'nm, 1 Please let me see your hand." ' . , ' . "Tliere it is!" bIio Biinpppd, as , she held out a hand which a No. 7 ' ' glove .would have been a tight fit ' ; A for. '"' ! uf;''-''- " , -... . "Ah!; ma'am, the mystery is solved I' smiled the conductor, as the color - 'returned io his face.' f Its no wonder he didn't see a ' " ' -i dainty little hand like thai Why, - . if 'you'd heltt up both hands' and . v.;- one foot -he'd" have ..winked -and ... blinked and hesitated to , l topj I ; ; thought it was funny. ' You ought to carry an umbrella -or a palm-1- ' leaf -fanindeed; ycu had, unless ,., you want a police whistle with a j silver chain to it, like some carries. Goright in nnd sit down, ma'am. If I hadn't been Jooking right f at . you I should never have supposed n: , . ?you wanted my1salrV TT, ' ;. Tr r" ;r She hesitated, smiled, gave 'her r head a toss' and'' Went in and sat ; , down. She1 did even more. She : -looked out' of the window and smil- . i . ed at the conductor in a", way that . niade liim stand on hiss toes and r whisper to himself:' ' ' ' ' - ; . ' "Ah! me boy! Cold weather ' makes no difference with soft soap not in our line!" Detroit Free Press. " '' ' '" 1 A;- ''-. ; SHE WAS PLACATED;:, -, A woman boarded a Grand River Avenue car at Washington avenue, the other day,' who was hopping mad. TheV conductor recognized the fact and did not reach his , paw down and rest it on ' her shoulder in that J rienign and fatherly way he had effected all summer. In fact; ' he .would have dodged her altogether, but she stood in the door arid surveyed him from head to foot and demanded: demand-ed: ' ! "Conductor!, I want the number num-ber of the car which passed up ahead of youl" ( " Yes'mvery sorry, ma'am, but I don't exactly recollect, whether it was 8,256 or '8,652," lie humbly replied. . . ' "But you know the driver!" "Can't say t do, ma'am. Can't say X know any driver but my own, and ho isn't worth ' cultivating. Anything wrong, ma'an?" ' "Of course, there is! I stood right on the corner and held up my hand and he never noticed mel" "On the uper corner?" |