A Provident Englishman

trom tuc foresto wews. Au fifl'ablü, though somewhat dossicatcd American was on his way tho othor day to the city of Bostou. Ho liad with that thrifty forethought of his nation, seoured a lower berth, aud was nicdilating upon tho wisdom ot' gathering his body boliind tho curtains when he was acoostcd byan Englishman iu a tweed snit. Tho Englishman was of au ampio presence and had the air of one who had been pasturedon nnitton chops all his life. "You will oxcuse mo," said he of the tweed snit, "but am 1 right iu suppoBing that you havo the lower berth?' "You'bet yonr life," replied tho other. "My sister," said the ownor of the tweed snit, "lias the uppor berth, which i.s deuoed awkward, you know. Tho fftot is," added the Englishman, with frank urbauity, "it's unpleasant for ladies to climb up past a man in lower berth. Now, might I ask you, sir, to do me the extremo favor of oceupying the upper berth and permitting my sister to take your's?" Tho roquost was searcely preferred when the American, with the gallantry of a genuino Yank, hastened to assure his Knglish aequaintance that nothing could givo him moro pleasure than to be of service to a lady. On tho followine morning tho AmoriCttn was astonished to seo a pair of tweed legs emerge from a lower berth opposite that which he had politely given up, and the next moment tho adiposo upper extromitics of tho English man. "Say," said the American, as an air of grave disgust began to creep over his astonished physiognomy, "dulu't you ask me to givc up my lower berth (o your sister?" "Cortainly, my dear fellow," replied tho gentleman addrossed, "ho])e you sleptwell?" "And you had a lower l)erth?" "Of course." "And then you got me to give up mine to your gister, sir?" "Why, my doar fellow," said tho Englishman, in his turn, "you didn't oxpect I'd givo up a lower berth to my own sister, (lid you?"