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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2598, 5 May 1877, Page 2

Rough . Rebuke.—A country clergyman, seeing a young man standing in the doorway of .a church and looking hesitatingly about, paused in the middle of his sermon, and exclaimed : " Get out, young man : she is not here I" . , " She Paddlbd heb Own BoAT.f-The train was approaching Atlanta, and the obliging conductor went up to a homely old lady, who was evidently travelling alone, and said, " Madam, have 'you a companion ?" " Oh, yes, sir; Martha Ann made me fetch along her little black ridU kule that she calls a kumpanyum." "No, no; I mean an escort." '«A whati sir P' 1 and she looked at him hard enough to break her spectacles. ■ " A fellow traveller with you?" explained the conductor desperately. She rose. Her uplifted hand looked deadly in. its black mitten garniture. "You Good-for-nothing -scamp. 7 No, sir. The idea of me, a lone woman, with no natural protector hut a sheepskinkivered New Testament", having a fellow travellin' with me! Tour mother ought to weep over your imperdence, young man, and I'll have yer knowthat I kin git: along in this world about as well aa any 60-year-old widow that you ever struck* agin!" By this time the conductor was' out on the platform, wiping the perspira* tion from his face, and swearing that the old lady might "go it alone" to her heart's content.—'Atlanta Constitution.