He Was There

There were six or eight of us in the smoking-ear, and the conversation tumed to the subject oí marriage. At that one oí' the crowil spoke up and said : "Tlnere's a bridal conple in the next car back, and it'3 enouigh to disgust everybody to see how silly the grooni behaves. He's an old yahoo 60 years old, and it's probably his se:ond wife." "Yes, I saiv him holding her hand,1' added a seeond. "It I don't exhibit more sensé than that at his age, (I hope somebody w;ll brain me with a fence rail. The woman can't be over 35, and has probably married him for his property. I teil you, gentlemen, there ouight totea law bearing on sueh tliings. Hiere ought to be a law to send that old Joslma to prison for a year, for even thinking of marriage. It'.s no wonder that society is -n-hat it is in this country." "Is the bride good looking ? ' quered the man ivho was smoking a Wheelinig stogy. "N'aw ! Noee turns up. faee all freekl-es and lier teeth hang out to tli e -veather." "Gentlemen, kin any of you loan me a lead pencil ?" aeked an old ehap arcoss the aisl?, who was smoking a clay pipe. He w-as handed one and he wrote for tinpee or four minutes in an old memorandum liook, tore out a leaf, amd, as he started for the other car, the leaf was handed to the mam who had opened the conversation. He had "First - I am the old yahoo referred to. "Second- I nra not 60 luit 5". "Third- It's not my second, hut third "Fourth - Bride ha'nt purty, but awful 2ood hearted. "Fifth - Didn't marry me Ier my p. operty, fer I ha'nt got any. I married her for luv and an eighty-acre farm. "Sixth - Yes ; I held her hand and Til do it again, and don't you forgit it ! "iSeventh - The huil blamed erowd of ye aan go to Halifax and be hanged to ye "-Boston Journal.