YANKEE IMPUDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2274, 19 April 1886, Page 2

YANKEE IMPUDENCE.

There were few passengers going east in tho car with me, which was calculated to hold fifty. Ekowhore, under similar circumstances, a down east Yankee, lean and tall, was travelling and seated behind a widow; after several offorts "he caught her eye," and addressed her—'•ln affliction • " Yes, sir," she replied, "Parents—futher and mother'(" "No, sir," " Child, p'raps—a, boy or girl ?" " No, sir, not a child," " I have children,

"Husband, then, 'spoct ?" " Yes," was the short reply. . "Hum A tradin' man, mebbe?"

"My hushand was a seafaring man, the captain of a vessel; ho didn't die oi cholera, he was downed,"

"Oh! drowned,- eh?" continued the other, and after a moments consideration he continued, "saved his chut?" "Yes, the vessel was saved, and. ray husband's effects."

" Was they!" said the interrogator, his eye brightening; " pious man ?" '• He was a member of the Methodist Church."

" Don't you think you had spent cause to be thankful that he was a pious man, and seived his 1"

" 1 do," said the widow, abruptly, and looked out of the window.

For the last time tho Yankee returned the attack, and leaning over tho back of the seat, he said, confidentially—"Was you calc'latin' to get married again?"

"Sir," said the widow, "you aro impertinent !" and moved to the other side of the car. \.

" Tears to be a little huffy," said' tho bore, turning to a paßsengor bohind him ; " she needn't bo mad,! didn't want to hurt her feelings. What did they make you pay for that umbrella you have got in your hand,?"