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On hearing this the crowd began to diminish rapidly; but the man with the red moustache set a good example by giving his name loudly and promptly as "Oscar B. Mecutchen, tobacconist, d'reckly opposite the City Hall." So three or four other men allowed Mrs. Tarbell to set them down as observers of the disaster.
"Well," said Mecutchen and Vickers, the tall man, together, tipping back their hats with a simultaneous and precisely similar movement on the part of each, nothing is more indicative of the careful independence of the average American than the way in which he always keeps his head covered in the presence of his lawyer, "Well," said Vickers and Mecutchen. Mr. Mecutchen bowed to Mr. Vickers, and Mr.
"Now, you all agree that the accident was the result of the negligence of the driver of the car?" "Why, yes, certainly," they all agreed at once. "Leastways " said Mecutchen. "That is " said Parthenheimer. "How was it, anyway?" asked Stethson. "Thought you saw it," cried the others, turning on him instantly.
Vickers bowed to Mr. Mecutchen, with a sort of grotesque self-effacement. Mr. Vickers waved his hand, and Mr. Mecutchen proceeded. "Why," said he, "the lady stopped the car in the middle of the block, just like a woman, got on the platform, car started with a jerk, and she fell off."
Vickers and Parthenheimer nodded assent, but Stethson said that his view of it was that the car started off again while she was trying to get on. "That makes it stronger," said Mecutchen. "It's wonderful what you can get for cows," he added pensively.
"And I never knew who I was talking to!" grumbled Mecutchen disgustedly. A quarter of an hour later, when Mr. Juddson returned to his office, Mrs. Tarbell was engaged in drawing up a paper which ran as follows: Issue summons in case returnable the first Monday in May, 1883. TARBELL, pro plff. It was a precipe for a writ. "Alexander!" said Mrs.
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