Character Sketches

.Tiist a few moments before the boat left, down Griswold street ::ane a thin nervous woman, wlth .1 handbag and a bundie. She liad come to say goodby to a fiat lady in a green dress rnid a feathered "bunnit," who, wita three children draggmg at her skirts, ieaned far over the rail of H12 upper deck. It was the .rt'jrul.uion adieu conversation that these t vo eaivied on. The woman below yelled up to the womin above ia a s-nall. piping volee, nnd she of the family replied with nods and s-niles. The following is a sliíirt-hand report of what the woman on ihe doek said: "So yon ííot here all right, dld you?" "Sho', you don't say!" 'Ten shilling', why, what for?" "Well, I jest wouldn"t stand it. 80 thereï" "Ain't little Charley too near the ï'.-iilV "Saín told me to say good-by for him." "Iluh?" "Well, I declare!" "Look out for Georgië, he's chokin' on a peanut." "Did he cough it up?" "All right." "I hate to have children on a boat." "Oh, yes." "Write jest as soon as you git there, won't you?" "And teil Sary to write, too." "Well, I guoss they're startin'." "Good-by." "Be sure to write." Remember me to Loo and all the folks." ' "All right." "You didn't forgit that littla satohel, did you?" 'Well, I thought you wouid." "I'm awful glad." . "Good-by." The boat passed out of hearing. The Chin, nervou.s -woin-an had come down froui the other end of Forest ave. to say that and wouid probably. have gane threo miles further to do the same thing if it had been necessary.