Life — February 27, 1896 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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A YOUNG man about twenty-five years old was sitting in the waiting-room of the Brush street depot with a year-old baby on his knee, and his alarm and helplessness when the child Legan to howl were so marked as to at- tract attention. By-and-by a waiting passenger walked over to him with a smile of pity on his face and queried : ‘“A woman gave you that baby to hold while she went to see about her baggage, didn't she ?” “Yes.” “Hathatha! [tumbled to the fact as soon asI saw you. Youexpect her back, I suppose 2?” “Of course.” “Hathatha! Thisisrich! Looking for her every blessed minute, ain't you 2” “I think she'll come back.” “Well, this makes me laugh—ha! ha! ha! I hada woman play that same trick on me in a Chicago depot once, but no one will ever again. Young man, you're stuck! You've been played on fora hayseed, Better turn that thing over to a policeman and make a skip before some reporter gets on to you!" “Oh, she'll come back,” replied the young man, as he looked anxiously around. “Shewill,eh! Halha!ha! Joke grows richer and richer! What makes you think she'll come back ?” “* Because she’s my wife and this is our first baby !" “Oh—um-—I see,” muttered the fat man, who got over feeling tickled at once, and in his vexation he crossed the room and kicked a dog which a farmer had tied to one of the seats with a piece of clothesline.—De- troit Free Press. ‘THEY Stepped to the edge of the sidewalk and looked long and earnestly in the direction of the cornice of one of the big buildings. Of course, under the circum- stances, the man who had been standing in the doorway felt impelled to join them. He could not see anything extraordinary at the top of the building, but he kept his eyes upturned because they did. Aman who was hurrying along saw the three, and he at once forgot where he was going and what he had to do and joined them. “Ttold you so,” said the man who had first cast his eyes in that direction, and he made a motion as if to point out something to his companion. Four men who were passing saw the gesture and stopped to investigate, and before they had tairly fixed their gaze upon the cornice three others joined them. “You may be right,” returned the companion of the man who had first spoken, ‘but you said twenty, you know.” Six more people, including two women, were now straining their eyes to see what was wrong with the cor- nice, and a rumor was in circulation that some one had tried to throw a child out of one of the windows. This was promptly denied by the man who knows it all, and who is always present on such an occasion. He said that a gang of counterfeiters had been found on the top floor and had taken refuge on the roof. 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