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Show 1 ALL THINGS SAPEJHAT NIGHT Reason Why There Wsa Nothlno Ex-traordlnary Ex-traordlnary About Man Recovering Recover-ing His Lost Watch. When the snow fell thickest on the first night of a Worm last winter a Statcn Island man got, off the ferryboat ferry-boat at St1. Oeorge and pulled out his gold watch to note, the time, relates the ttow York Press. It fell from his hand Into a pile .of snow. He searched for It, of course, but as the wind was blowing a hurrlcano and he was numbed through he made tip his mind I he would have to lotUt go. So he Te-luctnn'tlytrudgcd Te-luctnn'tlytrudgcd up the street. Tho next day wh'en he wont down to ' the ferry the Btorm had abated pomc- 'what nnd as he ilearcd tho particular pile of snow whoro he had dropped tho watch he determined to havo another look. So ho went to It. Thoro was no mile a minute wltid and no sleet In his fnco and his body was warm after a good solid breakfast ', 1 Ho rummaged around'for ton minutes) or more and at lastjUo'hls great Joy, ho saw the watch, somewhat dirty, but Btlll In a first rtasstalb of preservation. preserva-tion. Ho was so overjoyed that he hadj' to tell his luck to a policeman who hada I been watching bis search curiously. j "Oh, Is that vfbatlt;Vas?" said the bluecoat "And yotfremrp'rlsedT Well,' you needn't be. (JaajT.eA name a man1 In the whole world Sb)o would hare lothered looking, tobrjji watch last night? Why, anrfilBgyott placed in. snow would bare.oen'.'safe. I know men who didn't gb.sbo at all hut night and they blemed'll on the snow. And they.dldn'tleetfa) smirch of their, reputation. You couldn't' lose anything last night" tag - |
