The Man With A Glass Eye

As a I rain on llie lv uisas Pacific pulled away ft'Oiu ilii! Sixteeiith stieet do pot, a lcv íuornings áitce, a mil, angular specimen of huinnuity 100U a teat opposite a lady passenger, and, to all appearances, was iniemly eugaged in studying her taco. Al flpst tira lady treatod the rudeness with natu red imllflereiice. Dntatlaatit bogan to loll on her norvos. Jt was a canons and astonishiug pioce of impertineucc. Ho apparently bad the faculty of looking two ways :U once. One ofliis eyea whs rostless.oxcited, and roved in all directions. Tliü otlier flxod aud 8tony, fa-tened ou licr with 111 un oviatiiig stare. Bhe turned her hoad away, but it iiuorcupied her vision. TUo" tliing became unciidcauble, and sho cried out lo liini fiorcely : "riir, wliy do yon loou ai mu so par ■istently?" "Alo, ínadnm; why bloss iny soull I liavon't boen lookin at yon." "Yon liavc, ir - ful' hallan honr or moro yoi.ii1 evo lias buen ibsoliiLely rivc.cd on my face." '1 beg your pnrdon, rmdam, bnt it is this eye, U it uolV" ltít.ug lus linger lo liis lelt oplic. ■Yes, sir, li'í that oye." "Well, madam, tliat oye won't do yon any liann. Jt gencmüy looks any way it" picases - it givea me a givat deal of troublo. A graat man y coiu[ilain ot' it. At iirst 1 tlionght tlmy were niaking Huí ofnie, but l'vo tbiind out dilioicmly now. l'vo boen fenockeddovvntwo or tliroo times lor l lio iiiipei'tineuco ot' that oye. 1 would le:ive iL out altogéthor but for tho looks of tho tliing. U's i glass eye, iiiaduu- ouly a gjass oye. 1 hopo you'il excuse it. Jíiit, upou my soul J'm iiot BurpriuBd that oven a jjlass eyo should f el inicies ed in so prtity a womiui," and lie brouht theoiher eye to beai' upou hor in uiidisguiaed admiratiou. Tac lady liinglilngly accoptea tho explaiiaiion ai.d the rest of tlio journey was passod very pleasantly to uolh of thein.