The Youngster got his Deserts on the Horse-car.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 145, 24 December 1901, Page 3

The Youngster got his Deserts on the Horse-car.

"William," he shouted, as he grasped the boy by his coatcollar, "William, get up and give your seat to the lady." " Did you speak to me ■? " said the youth. " I did," thundered the angry man.

"" Well, my name isn't-- " "Don't talk to me like that. Great goodness! that I should live to see a boy oi mine sitting down and whistling whilst a lady is standing! What wild jour poor old mother say -when I tell her this ? • William, I am going to teach you right here aud now never l to disgrace my name

again. He rfesKShed out and grasped the boy with a (inner grip. "Oh ! oh ! " ha howled,'•/I'll 'teach you," he said, a«* he backed $p against the door frame and elevated one broad kuee. "I ain't no boy of yours." '" What did you say ? " The youngster suddenly found himself lying face downwards across the knee iu the very vortex and 'maelstrom of one of the. grandest whippings ever aduiinis- i tared in this :or#ny #ther age.; Those who witnessed.J'he exhibi-■; tion of agility and science were; of the opinion that the oldgentlemau was well preserved for his; age. ■ . ; The performance was thorough, but very rapid. • Then the old gentleman sat the boy on the floor; and . the conductor, who was evidently a man . of deliberation., 'thought it time t to interfere. . .'" Here," he said, " yoU can t lick that boy if -he ain't no Tela-: tioh of youri." ... : • "I never Been him before, • gasped the youngster, « Great Sfiott.4 Does the young rascal deny his own father?" cried the Old gentleman. He' then took out his glasses and looked at the boy, and his astonishment was beautiful to see * "\ftiy-, Me* 9 vaeV ' he ex " claimed, -that's so. I thought it was my youngest son William. 1 h6pe I haven't inconvenienced you, youug »ir. |( You'll axeuae me, won't 70U 1" -The toy 'said Bomfcthing tLat sounded like "police." "Want to go to the policeBtatioo* " said-tb* old gentleman benevolently, /'to. earned beyond the >J*tre«t, 'eh? Well prectifiy that" mistake at once* ''' • >'■" l ' '"■'•-'-'hi

Once more grasping the boy the collar, be stepped out on the; pl&tforui, lifted hitn lightly over the rear bulwarks, and dropped' him.

The conductor smiled and rang a merry peal on his strap ; the driver whipped up, the car flew up the street, the boy stood on the pavement weeping and using language shocking for one so : young, until he Was nearly run_ over by a truck. : The old gentleman stepped', back into the car, all the men touching their hats to him, and six ladies arose and quarrelled with each other for the privilege of giving him a seat.