Every Point in Her Favor.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Every Point in Her Favor.

It wad in an East Boston ferry horse car She was slight, delioate, and standing pp. He weighed over 200 pounds, and was sitting in the corner by the rear door. Suddenly he jumped from his seat to nek the conduotor a question. She (innocent, unthinking creature) thought he meant to leave the oar, and so bZj slid into the seat he had just vacated. Soon he coucladed the interview with the conductor, and began to slide baok into his seat again. The lntle woman saw the proportions of the bulky form gradually assume frightful magnitude and a very alarming proximity. Quickly digging her elbow into the ribs of her neighbor, whose head and beard looked like a bundle of saffron, she interested him sufficiently in the jeopardy of her situation to induce him to raise his colossal fist and " fend off " the settling monster. Words cannot picture the look of horror upon the man's face when he received a vigorous thrust in the small of his back, and turned and saw this little wee woman in his seat. " Great Scott, ma'am I Yer a pretty hard hitter, ain't yer ? I hain't had auoh a clip aa that since I waa struck by a ice boat. Oh, don't move, ma'am ; be just as easy as yer oan. You've ev'ry point in yer favor."