| Show MAKING FUN once when traveling ina lna in a sta stagecoach stage e coach cooch I 1 met a young lady who seemed to oe e upon the constant lookout for tor something laughable not content with laughing laughin herself ebe took great pains to make others do the same nov nox traveling in a stagecoach stage coach is rather prosy business people in this are apt to show themselves peevish and selli h b 0 the fhe youn joun ladys ad a good humor was wag for a time i r very Y the travelers trav eiers elers every old oid ld barn wa was s made the subject of a passing gjoke joke while the cows and hells hens looked demurely on little dreaming that folks aoud ue lire i so 60 merry at tasir expense all ali this pr chap hapa a was harmless enough animals a e not riot a 8 n in that respect they are not likely to have their feelings ingui injured ed because people make fun of them but when we come to human fillman beings that is quite another thi g so it seemed to me for atter alter a while an old lady jady i came lunning across the fields nelda swinging her J bag at the coachman and in a shrill voice begged him bim to 0 o top stop I 1 the good natured coachman grew duew dree grec w up h a I 1 horses and ani ani the glod old jadv coming to the fence by the roadside squeezed herself two bars bats which were not only in a horizontal i position but very near together 4 the yung lady ady in bce ace tte stagecoach stage coach ir made ade some ludicrous emark remark the passengers laughed it seemed ery excusable for in getting through the the poor woman had bad made sad work I 1 her old black bonnet and now tiow a I 1 seat beade bes dc a weil well dressed lady eally looked as if she had bad been blown there by a i whirlwind this was a new piece 0 of fun ard the girl made the most of I 1 i she caricatured the old lady ill til iilona on a card pretended when she was not looking to take pattern of her bonnet and in other various vinous ways tried to raise a laugh at length the old oman woman A turned a pale apale face far e toward her h er my illy dear i said she ehe you are ate and happy I 1 have been so to v but that time lime has passed I 1 am now nov decrepit and forlorn this coach is akin ahin aking ahing me to the death be bei 1 of my child arid and the then n my dear I 1 shall shail be a poor old woman all alone in the world e merry gi Is think me a very amm n ng object they will laugh at my old oli fashioned clothes dottus and an old woman who has iada dad a that has loved loyed and suffered arid and will live for ever the coach now stopped before a poor look ing house and the old ladie lad iad feebly d ecender the steps jiji is she was he be first trembling inquiry of the poor p 0 or mother just alive 1 1 said the theman man who was leading her into the house putting tip up the steps the driver mounted mount edbis his box and is ue e were upon the load loada again gain pain our oar merry young fr end had placed the card jn ill her pocket she was waa deanin leaning tier head bead upon her tand land and you may be assured assured I 1 was riot not so sorry borry rry to see bee a tear upon her fair young cheek it was a leson les on and one which we e hoped would do her good |
