A Good Story.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 284, 25 July 1888, Page 3

A Good Story.

Tins is the latest good American btory :— On tlic overland train. A newly-married couple are on their way from San Francisco to New York. The railroad track is dusty, and the heat is excessive. After some hours, the young woman, a capricious blonde, asks for a drink of ice water. Theie is no ice, and the husband i& in despair. ' Fifty dollars for some ice,' he cries. ' Fifty dollars?' inquires a follow pas&enger. 'Yes. 1 ' Very well, I will get you somo ab the next station. And at the next; station, the fellow passenger produces a plate of ice and receives his fifty dollars. Same scene next day. This timo the fellow passenger demands a hundred dollars, and produces at the noxt station a second plate of ice. Same scene the next day again. • Ice !' cries the husband, ' I must have ice. I will have ice.' This time the passenger docs not reply. ' Ice !' again cries her husband. * A hundred and fifty dollars.' The passenger does not move. ' Two hundred and fifty dollars.' Still he does not move. 'Five hundred dollars,' fairly shrieks the husband, while the fair bride looks on with limpid and beseeching eyes. ' Impossible, sir,' says the fellow-paf pen ger, with much dignity of manner. ' Your ofler is tempting, but I examined my uncle at tho last station, and if I take any more ice out of hib coffin he Won't lat>t until we gel to New York