Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — Only Meant to Scare Him. [ARTICLE]

Only Meant to Scare Him.

“Look here!” roared a tall chap, attired in a broad-brimmed hat and an innocent air. as he approached the tick-et-window. “Look here, you, I want a first-class ticket on the top shelf car to the other end of this line, and don’t you forget it!' See this?” and he developed a horse pistol and stuck the muzzle through the window. “I see it,” replied the agent, calmly. “I’m looking right at it. Now what can I do for you ?” “Didn’t you hear me bark a few minutes ago?” demanded the tall man. “Didn’t you hear me compliment you with an order for the best you’ve got in your workshop there ? Have I got to put a bullet in there to make you comprehend that I’m waiting here for the upper row of preserves ? Must I take the blood of another station agent on my hands before I manage to get what I want? Throw me out the most embroidered ticket there is on the line of this road, or I’ll commence to make vacances. ” The agent carefully closed the window, stepped outside the door, picked up the tall man, set him down again on his head, whirled him around three or four times and then kicked him out into the middle of the street, where a policeman gobbled him and hustled him off. “Am I awake?” asked the tramp, rubbing the dust of the conflict out of his eyes. “Never mind about that, am I alive ?” “What did you want to bother the man for?” demanded the policeman, hauling him around by the collar. “I didn’t want to bother him. I only meant to scare him. 1 hadn’t any money; so I played the Western man on him, just as I have seen it written up in the funny papers. I say, either those papers are the damdest liars on the continent or I missed the combination on the gag!” And they locked him up to think over which might be the case. —Brooklvn Eagle.