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It Annoyed Him

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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líe Camc f rom the West and Was Puzzled . That Hew Yorkers Knew lt. His coat was a trifle too long and his trousera an inch too wide at the knee to be strictiy and exactly fashionable; but, aside from these mee discriminations, he was dressed according to the fashion autocrats, says a writer in the New York World. We took the "h" together at Park place, and I noticed a puzzled expresance, on his face. At 33d street he surrendered his seat to an elderly woman and stood in the aisle in front oí where I sat. It was evident that he was anxious to teil some one of the subject on his mind, so I was not surprised when he caught my eye and opened the conversation. "Just now," he said "as I was hurrying to the station a man caught hold of my arm and stopped me. He was a respectable looking fellow, well clothed and wore a grayish beard parted in the middle. " Tve been on a drunk,' the man said to me, and I am sobering up. I ive in Hackensack and I want to get home. I haven't a cent and want a quarter.' "I looked him over carefully," continued my chance acquaintance, coneluded he was telling the t ruth and gave him the money. As I 1 irried on he shouted after me: " 'I knew you were froír the west and I knew you would give n.e the money. They are white out there.' "Now, what I want to know," said my acquaintance, "is how did he know I was from the west. It's true, but how did he know it? Would you know it? Am I marked? Have I a tag on me to teil others that I am a westerner?" "None that I know of," I assured him, "unless it be such little things as giving your seat up to ladies. That generally indicates that a man is not a native New Yorker." I got out at 50th street and leit him with the same quizzical expression as if the question had only been halfanswered.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier