Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1905 — Hard to Understand. [ARTICLE]

Hard to Understand.

He was a scholarly looking Englishman, with the abstracted appearance of a student about him, and he wanted to take a ride to a suburban locality and back. “What will be the he asked the cabman. “Two plunks,” replied cabby, .. “Two what?” “Plunks —bone*—cases, Ain’t you on?” . < ‘'Oh?” echoed the other in bewilderment. “Not until I know how mucb.it is to cost me for the trip. That is whht I am asking you.” “That’s what I’m tollin’ you. Twe’ daddies. See?” “1 beg pardon. That is equally mystifying. Either I have failed to make you understand me or I am singularly deficient in apprehending the vocabulary of .commerce. May I ask you te make ojje more effort to tell me what my fare will be for the proposed trip?” “Told you five or six times. Tw» bucks; two cart wheels.” A light seemed to dawn upon the befogged mind of the scholarly person. "Could you,” he said, “by any possibility mean ?2.” “Sure. That’s what I’ve been telHn’ you all along, but you don’t seem to nuderstand English." A few moments later one might haja seen a cab making its way toward the suburbs. On the driver’s seat wag a brisk looking personage with his “plug” hat tilted back on his head, an< on the inside was a passenger who was industriously dotting down something in his notebook.—Youth’s Companion.