. Wit, humor and pathos . ink with Impunity. THE FUNNY SIDE OF FISK. A QUEER MAN. Yes, Colonel Fisk was a funny man, and a manalways full of humor could not have been a very badman at heart. Once I had occasion to spend an hour with theColonel in his palatial Erie office, and a record ofthat hour I then wrote out. Fisk was being shaved asI entered, and his face was half-covered with foaminglather. Just then some one came in and told him thatthe gentlemen in the office had made up a purse of$34 to be presented to little Peter, Fisks favorite littleoffice boy. All right, said the Colonel, smilin
. Wit, humor and pathos . ink with Impunity. THE FUNNY SIDE OF FISK. A QUEER MAN. Yes, Colonel Fisk was a funny man, and a manalways full of humor could not have been a very badman at heart. Once I had occasion to spend an hour with theColonel in his palatial Erie office, and a record ofthat hour I then wrote out. Fisk was being shaved asI entered, and his face was half-covered with foaminglather. Just then some one came in and told him thatthe gentlemen in the office had made up a purse of$34 to be presented to little Peter, Fisks favorite littleoffice boy. All right, said the Colonel, smiling and wiping thelather from his face. Call in a moment little Peter enteredwith a shy look and seemingly halffrightened. Well, Peter, said the Colonel, as he held the envelope with the money in one hand and the towel in the peter. other, what did you mean, sir, by absenting yourself from the Erie Office, the other day, when both Mr. Gould and I were away, and had left the whole mass of business on your shoulders?. Then he frowned fearfully, while Peter trembled fromhead to foot. But, my boy, continued Fisk, I will not blameyou; there may be extenuating circumstances. Evilassociates may have tempted you away. Here, Peter,take this (handing him the $34), and henceforth let yourlife be one of rectitude—quiet rectitude, Peter. Be-hold me, Peter, and remember that evil communicationsare not always the best policy, but that honesty is worthtwo in the bush. As Peter went back to his place beside the outsidedoor everybody laughed, and Fisk sat down again tohave the other side of his face shaved. Pretty quick in came a little dried-upold gentleman, with keen gray eyes sur-mounted by an overpowering Panama Erie Railway office was then theold gentlemans almost daily Here he would sit for hours at a time, and peer out fxom under his broadbrim at the wonder-ful movements of Colonel Fisk. Cautious, because hecould move but slowly, this venerable gentleman,
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