A PLYMOUTH CHURCH YOUNG LADY ON HER NORTHERN PACIFIC TRAVELS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4483, 18 May 1883, Page 2

A PLYMOUTH CHURCH YOUNG LADY ON HER NORTHERN PACIFIC TRAVELS.

" May I open the window for !j6n, miss ?" politely inquired a gentleman of a young lady on the Northern Pacific road, as he saw her tugging at a sash that bad not recovered from the preceding winter. She glared at him a moment, and gave a reluctant consent.

"Folks can't be too careful who they speak to or accept favours, from,".;'she remarked after a loos; pause. *' That's very true," replied the gentle* men quietly. "Are you a Boston drummer?'* she inquired. " " No, I am not,'! he answered. "An hotel clerk?"

" No, not an hotel clerk."

" I am glad of that," said she. " I never let a drummer or an hotel clerk speak to me. Maybe you're an aet°rP" " No, not an,actor."

"' That's first class," she exclaimed, showing her dimples, and becoming more and more confidential ? " If- an actor should speak to me I'd die. What is your business ?"

"I'm a barkeeper, ami I'm travelling west to get a territorial di»orce. from my wife," explained the geatloman.

" Oh, I am so glad," giggled the girl. "Reach down my satchel; there's a bottle of whisky and a pack of cards in it. I'll play you an odd game of California Jack for five dollars a corner. I like to meet gentle<nen, and I know 'era when I see 'em. Ask that bald-headed duffer across there if he's got a corkscrew, will yoa P'^Chioago Herald.