Show tho upper fio rth la the burlington ifa k all the way from burlington to II I peacefully snored in nn upper berth I never got any I always reach the conductor just in almo to learh that hell have to give me an upper berth all this winter I have lived on the road and never got a lower berth but once hla was on the st louia sleeper of the C S broad which has no upper berths and when I went to get in my lowly couch that I was so accustomed to climbing into my lofty berth from stepladders step ladders and portera port cra boxes bo that I know how to get into a lawone lo wone and the porter boosted me up to the curtain rod which I scrambled over and tumbled down inside why about one fifth ofa my lifo this winter lias been spent dangling between heaven and earth clinging to the edge of an upper berth feeling for tho floor with my feat there is some mistake about this nature never intended irta to sleep in an upper berth else she had given me legs with tubular joints that would elide in and out like a py glass I am glad I am not fat since this relentless fate ha has s assigned uie forever to the doom of alie upper berths if there is any thing that would make the spectacle of a fat man ft little along in years with ahead rather of the b ld baldy and wide suspenders lapping and dangling down bis legs putting squirming and kicking over the edge ot an upper berth trying to got in grabbing at the yielding unhelpful pillow Bi balancing himself on his ii whilo he tears hid bed to alecea with frantic snatches and at tho time kicks tho hn mortal breath out of the mart in the opposite berth and at last with a hollow groan come sliding down landing astride of tho neck of tho man who ia sitting on the edge of the lower berth unbuttoning his it usually winds up a dollar and cents to trade berths with it is unnecessary to say that the old fat man h very sensitive on this subject and like to b joked about iti one night after had laughed myself blind at just lucli a seen as I havo described I heard tho fat man ask with great sadness of voice if anybody like to exchange berths with himi moved with pity I said I would all right said tho perspiring fat roan mine a upper five but havo to get tho porter to boako it up again you get into it its kind all to pieces bo added rather apologetically and be waa correct for I could see it lying all over tho floor of the car which is your borsht ho I u with a grateful glov on his face he prepared to drop in to it upper seven I said next on to yours and I dont think I was ever call ed quite so many names in five minute all di florant and none campli inen tiry in all my life as I waa hen I will never again try to be accommodating mo dating in a sleeping car |