A MAN AND A GATE AND A WOMAN.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1777, 31 October 1879, Page 3

A MAN AND A GATE AND A WOMAN.

The gates at the passenger depots which shut out all the people not having tickets for the trains were yesterday closed at the Union depot against an elderly woman wearing spectacles and using an umbrella for a cane. “Can’t pass without a ticket,” said the nun at the gate as she came up. “ I want to see if there’s anybody on that train going to Port Huron,” she answered. “Can’t pass without a ticket, madam.” “I’ve got a darter in Port Huron, I have.” “ Can’t help it, please. My orders are very strict.” “I tell you I want to send word to my darter 1 ” she exclaimed, adjusting her spectacles for a better view of the official. “Yes, but we can’t help that, you see. Please show your ticket.” “ I want this ’ere railroad to understand that I’ve got a darter in Port Huron, and she’s got a baby four weeks old, and I’m going to send her up word In spite of all the gates in this depot.” “ Plesse show your ticket, madam.” “ I tell you once more ” “ Please show your ticket, madam.” She gave the old umbrella a whirl and brought it down on his head with all the vim of an old fashioned log-raising, and as he staggered aside sh» passed him and said—- “ There’s my ticket, sir, and I’ve got more behind it! Mebbe one maa and a gate can stop me from sending word to my darter to grease the baby’s nose with mutton taller if the weather changes cold, hut I don’t believe it 1 ” And she walked down to the train, found some one going to Port Huron, and came hack carelessly humming the melody of “Three Blind Mice.” “Detroit Free Press.”