. Bret Harte's choice bits [electronic resource]. w, and kinder enjoyin, as wimenwill, all the compliments paid the corpse, and hesays, says he :— What did you say your husband died of, marm ? Consumption, she says, wiping her eyes, poorcritter. Consumption—gallopin consumption. Consumption be blest, sez he, bein a profanekind of Chicago doctor, and not bein ever underconviction. Thet man died of strychnine. Lookat thet face. Look at thet contortion of themfashal muscles. Thets strychnine. Thets risersSardofiikus1 (thets what he said; he was alwayssorter profane). A SLEEPING CAR EXPERIENCE. 18
. Bret Harte's choice bits [electronic resource]. w, and kinder enjoyin, as wimenwill, all the compliments paid the corpse, and hesays, says he :— What did you say your husband died of, marm ? Consumption, she says, wiping her eyes, poorcritter. Consumption—gallopin consumption. Consumption be blest, sez he, bein a profanekind of Chicago doctor, and not bein ever underconviction. Thet man died of strychnine. Lookat thet face. Look at thet contortion of themfashal muscles. Thets strychnine. Thets risersSardofiikus1 (thets what he said; he was alwayssorter profane). A SLEEPING CAR EXPERIENCE. 183 Why, doctor, says the widder, thet—thct ishis last smile. Its a Christians resignation. * Thet be blowed; dont tell me, sez he. Hadesis full of thet kind of resignation. Its pizon. AndIll— Why dern my skin, yes we are; yes, itsJoliet. Wall, now, whod hev thought wed beennigh onto an hour ? Two or three anxious passengers from theirberths: Say; look yer stranger ! Old man ! Whatbecame of— But the One Man and the Other Man A JERSEY CENTENARIAN.
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