"Quad's odds"; . into my eyesand point to the time-card on the wall; but if he didntfeel like it, he wouldnt pay the least attention. The Niagara hotel waiter is only one peg beneath theclerk. He has heard about John Jacob Astor and theRothschilds, but he wouldnt compromise his reputationby sajing that he was intimately acquainted with them. Ididnt know how to take him at first, and was recklessenough to put a dollar bill beside my plate at supper time. What is that ? he inquired, as he picked it up. That ? That, sir, is lucre—dross—money—a green-back, I responded. Humph ! youd better keep it—
"Quad's odds"; . into my eyesand point to the time-card on the wall; but if he didntfeel like it, he wouldnt pay the least attention. The Niagara hotel waiter is only one peg beneath theclerk. He has heard about John Jacob Astor and theRothschilds, but he wouldnt compromise his reputationby sajing that he was intimately acquainted with them. Ididnt know how to take him at first, and was recklessenough to put a dollar bill beside my plate at supper time. What is that ? he inquired, as he picked it up. That ? That, sir, is lucre—dross—money—a green-back, I responded. Humph ! youd better keep it—you might want to buythe Falls, he retorted. I thought some of handing him my wallet, but as I 5LIM CONSOLATION. 301 didnt, I had to make my supper out of pepper, salt, celeryand crackers. The guide is another feature of Niagara. The one whotook me around, showed me Goat Island from fourteendifferent points, and wanted two dollars a point, and whenI growled about the price, he sneeringly replied that if I. One of the Points. had come there to get a one-horse view of the Falls, Ishould have brought a tent and some crackers and cheesealong, and camped out on the commons. The relic-sellers came at me in a body. I at first refusedto buy Thomas Jeffersons arm-chair and Washingtonscane, but the guide told me a story about a miserly fellowwho was thrown over the falls for refusing to purchaserelics, and I felt compelled to select twelve Indian canoes,six Revolutionary muskets, a quart of Mexican war bullets,several war-clubs, and an armful of tomahawks. I left Niagara with only one thing to console me. It hasbeen ascertained that the Falls are wearing away at therate of an inch every three hundred years, and it wont !»•long before the cataract will be completely worn out. OF COURSE HE DID. oTfbT TC was a fine^y Pressed young man, having a gorgeous(is paste diamond and lavender pants, and as he handeda boy a bundle and a bouquet he said: Now, bub, look sharp. Take this bouqu
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