FLITTING SHADOWS.
While half a dozen persons were rolling along in a Michigan avenue car yesterday a man leaned across the aisle and said to another : ‘ Excuse me, but didn’t a big bug crawl down behind your collar? ’ ‘Ooh! Ouch!’ exclaimed the other, as he leaped up and hauled off his coat. He looked the garment all over, but there was no bug to be seen. ‘ Perhaps it crawled down under your vest,’ suggested the man. Off came the vest and it was closely inspected without making any discoveries. Tiro attentive stranger then made the victim turn around two or three times, to see if the bug wasn’t hidden under his suspenders, and when a thorough search had been made the stranger sat down and said : ‘ It was probably a shadow flitting across your collar, but I felt sure it was a bug. You can put on your coat and vest again.’ The more the victim t hought about it the madder he got, but before he put on his coat the other man left the ear and slid down Twelfth street as if ho had grease on his heels.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 960, 24 July 1877, Page 3
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