Show HISSED HER FOR THE CIGARS the girl wak up ant the did sd followed albany express id give twenty five ceata ceuta for to kiss that girl re marked an insipid looking youth on an albany bound train last indicating with a motion of his hand an unusually handsome young woman asleep in a seat near by the young man was one of a group standing in the rear of the crowded car another young man said you have my permission sir gratis fraid she regard it as sufficient laughed the first 1 I dont know replied the other 1 I have a great influence with good looking girls ill tell you what ill do ill bet you a good cigar I 1 can kisa her without waking her done cried the insipid ill give you a cigar if you dare to do it anyway and two more if she dont wake up its a go the daring young man stepped up to the seat where the pretty girl slept leaned over softly and kissed her squarely and audibly upon her mouth she stirred smiled a little but did not wake the group of men watched the proceeding in breathless suspense and a long and simultaneous sigh broke from them as young impudence straightened up after the operation and rejoined the group several passengers who had seen the audacious performance perlor mance blaring at him in astonishment by jove that was elegant the fellow of insipid aspect exclaimed as he handed the successful kisser his three cigars but there wao another reckoning to be made the conductor came hurrying down the aisle and went for the daring passenger metaphorically speaking hammer and i tongs crying bee here young man dunt you ever try that again are you a gentleman sir dont you know that I 1 can arrest you for such a performance as that the young man colored but laughed nervously as he answered no I 1 dont much believe you can I 1 guess there any american law again t a fellows kissing hia own sister is there it has not appeared yet whether or not the young woman learned of her brothers astonishing exhibition of disrespect or whether if she did her displeasure lessened the agrati fi cation derived from the cigars won in such a questionable man the little girl I 1 found in bow strett one day as I 1 crossed rose street a little girl about 10 years old was engaged in a rough and tumble fight with a boy two or three years older while she waa doing bably it a lair fight and I 1 interfered to protect her what is it to you she hotly demanded as she turned on me with flashing eyes but you are a girl I 1 replied but I 1 kin lick him if hell fight fair I 1 drove him oft and sat down on a doorstep with her girls fight I 1 said as the ragged aud child at my side grew cooler not if they are on no thea call me a coward but suppose they did you come of a cowardly sex women are not braw lera and fighters they are tender and gentle and given to soft words and peaceful ways where do you live down a piece and up father nod mother living mo but dad and mum is dad ia over to the island eatn washes and scrubs and what do you do mind the rooms nestly ever go tot chool cant you read nawl ever been out in tha country nawl where is it and what is and so I 1 described something of farm lite to her telling her of the fields of grain the green mead swa the barns and orchards and farm yards her eyes opened wider and wider as I 1 went on but toward the end she grew suspicious and eaid say what sort of a cove do you take me fur but this all true upon my word it is dont believe ill if it was gaiu would have let me on say what cyp want anyhow I 1 want to talk with you a little longer ever go down to the battery nawl or to central park nawl ever see a cow or an os ive heard of em I 1 guess you have heard of little red riding hood you cant remember never heard of old mother II who went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone nawl how about the house that jack built what jack was it ft house in rose street you have heard of the bible I 1 continued seeing that she was now interested yep what is it 1 I where is heaven somewhere I 1 guess 1 any one ever tell you that you must be good in order to go to heaven when you die nawl mam says I 1 must be good or shell break every bone in my infernal body did you ever pray boap did you ever hear the lords pryer boap did you I 1 repeated it for her and when I 1 was through she said say ill learn that some day if try mel was it buaer that I 1 met her again and again at the same spot and that she was always on the lookout for me and that after the first meeting she began to grow in she also grew ashamed of her garments and I 1 noticed that she had tried to patch and mend at the third or fourth meeting she had a clean face and her hair had been combed I 1 think the neighbors looked upon it as a great mystery but if they quizzed the child she did not let mo know it we used to talk of the country other cities and people the mountains and plains the ten thousand things she had never heard of but was hungry to bo informed of I 1 watched her closely and could see that knowledge brightened her eyes and made her face more gentle little by little she dropped off her flaog and little by little her manner changed to the coyness of her sex I 1 reached the spot one afternoon to discover that ehe had failed for me the first time in her place was a broad shouldered red faced woman who walked up to me and demanded are you the rapscallion rap scullion who has done all this all of what maam been preaching to my nanny until she got so soft and good fur nothing that a fall down stairs has put her in her coffiel coffi nl nanny deada and buried sir and she went on about the lords prayer and heaven and green fields until she almost made me crazy oh you villain to come about destroying a poor mothers happiness in that way or ill have the police after ye |