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Show SHE DFLIDtRATtD TOO LONa i, Old Lady Nepdrd Time to Make Up Her Mird. ' A Inri-.- woman tarrying ft heavy ' ' bundle sfirled lo bonul ft Itrosdwnr ear the other days, says the New York! ir News. The car bid been delayed f severnl minutes by a hlg truck, And tbo coniliictor wus tn even ft mora ! genial mood than was hi wont. A Tho woman laboriously placed U bundle on Iho floor of the enr, grusped ono of the liniidrnllK niul ptneed nna foot on the step. Then sho paused. f "rt'bnt nlreet I this, cotiduriorT" sho asked. "Thirty seventh strw-t, F mndnnio. Htep lively If you nre going i with us." replied the Metropolitan employe. em-ploye. In the suit, persuftstve toaa nffected by bis trllui. "How far Is II to Twenty seronth street?" continued tbo old woiun. "Ten blocks, madame. For bcaven'a snke get on or get off." "Now, don't get smart young man," responded tho old woman; "your nickel ronio enrier thnn mine. I don't know whether It's hardly worth ( whllo lo spend good money for a 10 block ride or lot. and I ain't goln' to tnnvo until 1 make up my iitlnd." Thorn was n miirdeious glt-nm tn tbo conductor's eve, nnd It Is hard to forlell Just whnt would bnvo hnpponcd had not the old woman bis-u com-polled com-polled to loosen her hold on the car Just then by a pa- -dug dray. As tho rnr swept by It wus euf to sen from her fumlte gciileuluilons that she bnd decided lo spend her mutiny and rldo. Hut It wns too into. |