Show r enmg > Bmft mss Kate Field relates an esperienc which she had in trying to sleep in a hotel in a Utah mining town where the partitions between the rooms were of boards merely and quite innocent of lath and plaster The ordinary going and coming of the early part of the night were bad enougb but toward morning when at last she had fallen asleep aloud voice shouted from her keyhole Smith I Smithl I As her name was not Smith she made no response Smithl came the shout again Its time to skip My name is not Smith she then answered an-swered From across the hall came the call oi the day clerk who occupied the room thereNo No That aint Smith Smiths at the end of the hall Well this is the end of the hall came from the neighborhood of the keyhole key-hole again It was the voice of the porter por-ter Arent there two ends to the hall Its the other end you blockhead Who wants Smith came a sharp voice from the distance Im Smith Whats thf matter Im Smith came still anotlscr voice I j Well whichever Smith wants to getup get-up at 4 oclock hims the ono growled the porter I Both these Smiths slammed their doors I with a vehement protestation that they didnt want to getup I Its Smith in No 11 1 screamed the d n clerk r The right Smith had not been waked at all so the porter found No 1 and pounded on the door so hard that everybody every-body in the house who had not already been waked was aroused and several people rushed out into the hall thinking there was a fire The porter went down complacently to the office on the floor below Well said he to the night clerk I waked him up anyhow |