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Served Him Right

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
October
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Here is a story f rom life, told in a Western paper: A man took a seat in a railroad car, and piled the seat at his side with bags and pareéis. The car became crowded, and a gentleman asked the person in this seat if the other half of it was occupied. "Yes," said the other; "those things belong to a man who has just gone into the smoking car, and he'll be back presently." The gentleman had reason to suspect the truth of this statement. .4-V .111 -I4 l V t 1 Ï ' ' "All right," he said; l win su. m " seat until the man comes back." He proceeded to remove the bags and bundies, placing them on the floor or in the rack. The other man glared, but could say nothing. As a matter of fact, the "man in the smoking car" was an invention. By and by the owner of the bundies arrived at his destination. He began to gather up his effects. "Excuse me," said the gentleman, "but you said these bundles belonged to a man who had gone into the smoking car. I shall consider it my duty to prevent you from taking them, since by vmir nwn statement they don't belong to you." The man became violent and abusive, I but dared not lay his hands on the bundies. The conductor was called in. He listened to the statements of both men, and said: , 'Well, I will take charge of the bundies myself, and take them to the station in the city and if no o: 3 else claims them meanwhile, you"- dicatI ing the man who had once renudiated ] I their ownership - "may have .hem." Amid the laughter and applause of the passengers the man got off at the station, Just as the train was pulling out, without hifi baggage. He obtained it the next day, luit was well punished for the lie he had tgld for the sake of monopolizing a seat that did not belong to him.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register