HAD HIM THERE.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4907, 1 October 1884, Page 3

HAD HIM THERE.

On an incoming Vandalia train was a family of five—a fat, gcod-natcred man, his wife a pret'y but nervous lady, and, gracious knows 'twas enough to make her nervous, the trouble she had with their three children. Tho eldest a boy of s;x, smashed his hand by pulling the w4ndow down on it. A little later, the three yearold, at a sudden jerk of the train, turned a somersault, bruising and gashing bis bead. Then the half-year-old baby upset the alcohol Ir.mp from tho window sill, which frightened the mother nearly into hysterics, which was the signal for all the children to set up in chorus. But during ■he next five minutes, when-that half dis^ tracted woman was trying to stop the music, that fat man, from the seat back of her, looked on with nerer an effort—he was really charming in his complacency. When quite resigned again his wife said with a sigh: "I do know I have more trouble than any woman on earth." "Oh, no, my dear; don't say that," answered Benedict, not moving his eye's from his paper. "I do say it!" she replied more stoutly. " There's no calamity could befall a woman which I have not suffered."

■" Oh, no, my dear; not so badly as that. For instance : You are not a widow," he answered sweetly. She held her breath two seconds and then retorted —and it made the Sentinel man 'laugh tho next hour to hear the" shot:

" I said ' calamity,' sir !"