ABSENCE OF MIND.
[s'cene; A sleeoing car. An absentminded passenger suddenly arises from his seat and looks aimlessly around him ]
“ A heavy weight is on my mind ! I know I’ve left something behind ! It cannot be the brazen ci eok, For trunks which baggage-masters wreck, For here it is ! My hat-box ? No ! It safely rests the seat below !
It must be, then, my new umbrella. My wife will taunt me when I tell her, “ Your fifteenth since the glad New Year ! Why, bless me, no ! How very queer ! ’Tis in the rack there, plain in sight ! What fancies crowd an addled head ; There’s naught amiss ! I’ll go to bed.”
Full peacefully he sank to rest, If snores a peaceful sleep attest. A tuueful hour had scax-ce slipped by, When loud uprose an anguished cry— A crazed man’s moan of lamentation—“l’ve left the baby at the station.” —Century Magazine.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1045, 28 April 1882, Page 4
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148ABSENCE OF MIND. Dunstan Times, Issue 1045, 28 April 1882, Page 4
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