| Show A CHAPTER OF QUEER ACCIDENTS A nearsighted bookkeeper carelessly left jett his eyeglasses at home the other morning aud had bad a half day days dayis Is experience that be will not forget or care to repeat as aa long as he lives he was in a great cuiry to catch the car and rushed out of the house shouting farewell to his wife as he passed through the door there was a large sized puddle in front of his residence and the first step that he took off the curbstone was directly into it that utterly ruined the polish on one shoe and imagining that he saw a firm alm place ahead of him he be made a leap for that and went into the mud with the other foot he narrowly escaped being run over by a team hitched to a brewery wagon and almost missed the rall rail of the car as it passed by him As he scrambled to the platform he trod heavily upon lipon the pet bunion of a stout old gentleman who uttered a howl of anguish and turning to apologize knocked a dinner basket out of the hand band of an office boy going to his work when the conductor came to collect his fare he be offered him a three cent piece and then a nickel penny by this time those who were near looked looke pityingly upon him he searched arched through his pockets for his glasses and to his great annoyance discovered that they were missing there was no help for it and he decided to keep on to the oace office and send a boy back for them when the oar arrived at the corner of bank and superior streets he hastened to alight and almost embraced a stern stem female who gave him a look that would have petrified him could he have seen it he raised his hat and begged her pardon for the collision and as he did so the conductor bent forward to assist the lady onto the car and knocked the hat out of the nearsighted mans manlis hand to the ground the latter peered blindly forward in the direction in which he be thought the hat might lie but could not discover it the conductor jumped off the car and picking up the hat restored it to its owner the bookkeeper reached his office without any further accident he sent the office boy to his residence for his glasses and sat mat down at his desk to work as best he could until the messenger returned in five minutes he had written with red ink upon the wrong book and as he reached for the eraser he knocked over another ink bottle and the contents thoroughly saturated a pile of statements stat emente that he be had spent the entire previous day in making out while attempting to stop the flow of ink he daubed it upon his coat and cuffs and finally sat eat down in the corner lit a cigar and painted the air blue until the glasses came with the messenger his hurry to catch the street car cost him about tw twenty enty five dollars to say nothing of the wear and tear of nervous energy cleveland leader |
