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Izzy was a great cook; and if she had had a little more poise of character and smoked a little better brand of tobacco we might have drifted into some sense of responsibility for the honor I had conferred on her. But as time went on I began to hunger for the sight of a real lady standing before me in a street-car.
Not you; I am sorry you came up. Do you think your mother would come? Will you ride down with me? I have Miss Dennis in the carriage, but it is quite large enough for three, you know." Then Joy had turned away her head, holding it high, and said: "No, thank you; I am going down in the street-car."
It was the winter street-car, a great dark caravan, with a long narrow bench down either side and a mass of hay all along the middle, with a melancholy lamp at the conductor's end. Although fairly light outside, it was quite dark inside the caravan, so the conductor set about lighting the lamp. This is the way he did it.
Which reminds one of the story told of Professor Josiah Royce, who once rang up six fares on the register when he wished to stop a Boston street-car. When the conductor protested, the philosopher called him "up-start," "curmudgeon" and "nincompoop," and showed the fallacy of his claim that thirty cents had been lost, since nobody had found it.
Baxter said, timidly. "Genesis thinks he heard the little Kirsted girl telling Jane she had plenty of money for carfare. He thinks they went somewhere on a street-car. I thought maybe you noticed wheth " "I told you I did not." "All right," she said, placatively. "I didn't mean to bother you, dear." Following this there was a silence; but no sound of receding footsteps indicated Mrs.
"It's a risk," said I. I saw at once that he was right, but I was in a reluctant humor. "Not a bit of it," was his confident reply. "I had a horse that was crazy would run away on any old provocation. But no matter how busy he was at kicking up the dust and the dashboard, you could always halt him by ringing a bell once. He'd been in the street-car service.
A Boston worker tells of a street-car conductor, not only supported through the winter by his fellow-conductors, but faithfully nursed by them at night, each one taking turns after the long day's work.
"Stole a street-car track," I muttered desperately. "The typical New Yorker, like they call him, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and sleeps in New Rochelle, going in on the 8:12 and coming out on the " "I had a pretty fight landing that biggest one this afternoon, from that pool under the falls up above the big bend.
Well, a few days later, while glancing through the pages at the end of the volume, my eye fell on the following lines: "Now that Woman is learning to face the right way when she steps from a street-car, she has demonstrated her right to the ballot." "How true." But I had scarcely expressed my approval when it occurred to me that I had read the same thing elsewhere in the book.
No one can discharge you because you are sick, or tired, or old, or because you are a Democrat or a Baptist!" "Well, but " "And think of having to pay no rent, nor of having to live upstairs in a tenement!" "Well, but " "Or getting run over by a street-car, or having the children play in the gutters." "I never did like to think of what my children would do if we went to town," said Mrs. Clark.
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