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Show Bill Nye Gets Sat Upon. I aimed my panic-price cane at the driver of a cream-colored car with a blu stomach, and remarked, "Hi, there !" I went inside, clear to the further end, and sat down by the side of a young woman who filled the whole car with sunshine. I was so happy that I gave the conductor half a dollar and told him to keep the change. If by chanc she sees this I hope she will remember me. Pretty soon a fat woman came into the car and aimed for our quarter. She evidently intended to squat between this fair girl and myself. But ah, thought I to myself in a low tone of voice, I will fool thee. So I shoved my person along in the seat toward the sweet girl of the - Bay State. The corpulent party, whose name I did not learn, had in the meantime backed up to where she had detected a slight vacancy, and where I had seen fit to place myself. , At that moment she heaved a sigh of relief, and assisted by the motion of the car, which just then turned a corner, she . sat down in my lap and nestled in my bosom like a tired baby elephant. Dear reader, if I were to tell you that the crystal of my watch was picked out from under my shoulder blades the next I day, you would not believe it, would you? I will not strain your faith in me by making that statement, but that was the heaviest woman I ever held. Boston Globe. |
