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Show WOULDN'T TAKE ANY CHANCES Woman Surely Could Not Be Accused of Having Any Lack of Caution. One day a very nervous, timid-looking woman, accompanied by a robust farmer, apeared on the platform of a little railway at a remote country town. For a time she devoted her attention at-tention to the time table, but she did not find there the information she sought, and she stepped up to the station sta-tion master as he came out of the office. "Will you please tell me if the three-fifteen three-fifteen train has gone yet?" she asked, In apparent concern. "Yes, about twenty mimtes ago," he replied. "And when will the four-thirty be along, do you think?" "Why, not for some time yet, of course." "Are there any expresses before then?" "Not one." i "Any freight trains?" "No." "Nothing at all?" "Nothing whatever." "Are you quite surer "Certainly I am, or I wouldn't have said so." "Then," said the timid womaa, turning turn-ing to her husband, "I think we'll cross the tracks, William." Youth's Companion. |