Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
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Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
American wit and humor
“At one hotel I was the first man at the table, and two families came in
and were waited on before the Senegambian would look at me, and after
an hour and thirty minutes I got a chance to order some roast beef and
baked potatoes, but the perspiring, thick-headed pirate brought me some
boiled mutton and potatoes that looked as though they had been put in a
wash-tub and mashed by treading on them barefooted. I paid twenty-five
cents for a lemonade made of water and vinegar, with a piece of
something on top that might be lemon peel, and it might be pumpkin rind.
“The only night's rest I got was one night when I slept in a car seat.
At the hotel the regular guests were kept awake till 12 o'clock by
number six headed boys and girls dancing until midnight to the music of
a professional piano boxer, and then for two hours the young folks sat
on the stair? and yelled and laughed, and after that the girls went to
bed and talked two hours more, while the boys went and got drunk and
sang 'Allegezan and Kalamazoo.'
“Why, at one place I was woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning by what I
thought was a chariot race in the hall outside, but it was only a lot
of young bloods rolling ten pins down by the rooms, using empty wine
bottles for pins and China cuspidores for balls. I would have gone
out and shot enough drunken galoots for a mess, only I was afraid a
cuspidore would carom on my jaw. Talk about rest, I would rather go to a
boiler factory.
“Say, I don't know as you would believe it, but at one place I sent some
shirts and things to be washed, and they sent to my room a lot of female
underclothes, and when I kicked about it to the landlord he said I would
have to wear them, as they had no time to rectify mistakes. He said the
season was short and they had to get in their work, and he charged me
Fifth Avenue Hotel prices with a face that was child-like and bland,
when he knew I had been wiping on diapers for two days in place of
towels.
“But I must get off here and see if I can find water enough to bathe all
over. I will see you down town after I bury these clothes.”
And the sticky, cross man got off swearing at summer hotels and pirates.
We don't see where he could have been traveling.
THE GOSPEL CAR.
Because there are cars for the luxurious, and smoking cars for those
who delight in tobacco, some of the religious people of Connecticut are
petitioning the railway companies to fit up “Gospel cars.” Instead
of the card tables they want an organ and piano, they want the seats
arranged facing the centre of the car, so they can have a full view of
whoever may conduct the services; instead of spittoons they will have
a carpet, and instead of cards they want Bibles and Gospel
song-books.--_Chicago News_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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