SHORT SHIFTS ON THE COMSTOCK.
A bashful young man called on a B street girl last evening for the first time, and after exhausting the usual stock subject of the weather, they both sat and looked at the fire for' several minutes. He at length concluded to introduce the great question of shortening the shifts of the stationary engineers, from twelve to eight hours. So lie squared around and remarked ; with manifest self-confidence: ■« Do you favor the movement for shortening of shifts on the Comstock “ What ?” exclaimed the : girl straightening, up. ' “ Some peoplu,” pursued the: young •' num nervously, “ think that tße Shifts are 100 long. As far • ain ; cbn> cerned, I never found ’em so, and Td be willing 1 o let ’em stay as they are ” ' - Here tue gi«l indignantly rose ‘up and said that she didn’t consider it'any 'of his business how dong a shift shoiild be, and if be had no ‘more delicate or appropriate subject to discuss- he .might take a walk. He slid through the. clo-u- about ten. seconds afterwards, with a cat mid hat. in ;band w aud it was not until he asked .his mfither about the matter that he lehi-ped ho4’' his innocent attempt to enliven:' conversation had been construed. - He is now a sadder tuaiu— Chronicle. ’ '. - * ■ '
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Kumara Times, Issue 496, 30 April 1878, Page 2
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