TOO FAR AHEAD.
•Tnere is such a thing as planning too far ahead,' remarked Mrs Hinfflan on arriving at her brother's.■housi after a day's journey. 'Now here I am tired to death. Had to wait over an howr at that Junction, where there : wasn't even a box to sit on, and &> trunk nobody knows where, just because I planned ahead so far.' 'Why, Aunt Martha, I don't see how that can be! You always say ' 'Yes, I know I do. But I never shelf again. A week ago yesterday I boueht my ticket, so's to be sure of it. I asked carefully about every train, and wrbkdoAvn all they told me—what im< what towns I should pass through and all. Then the day before I started-1;-' sent my trunk to the station and got a check for it, so's to be sure^u wouldn't be left; and this morning *t got to the station an hour beforlit Avas time for the train to start. , .;- -'l'felt as calm and composed as could be. I only had a little package and my $ satchel and umbrella and the box of; luncheon Mary fixed up for,meandmy shawl, so I didn't have nothing on mv mind.' My ticket was in my-pocket-book, and so.was the check for my trunk. - , 'Well, I saw the train standingthere with a ticket on it telling twi names of the places, it Avas going 'lb and 1 read them all over, so's to be sure I was right, and seeing Millville on it plain as print, I got right into the carriage and sat down. T hadn't set- more'n ten minutes before the carriage filled up and started off. I thought it was starting early but T felt pleased to think I was'in good season. That train stopped mora: times an hour than I shOhld like to say; and 'bout noon the conductor came into the car and shouted out'a grfat long tirade. T didn't pay ahy attention to it at the time, because I thought I had ; found but my Whole course a week before; but as I stood round therecat ' that Junction T remembered that W said something about taking the back carriage for way stations. . • •' • _ :The whole story is that I took a train that started fifty minutes before '».- the one I ought to have takeh, and by,.'.'■ being so Well prepared.for my joiir-" ney, I didn't pay proper attention to things, and was switched off '.on another road without perceiving;it. 'And by getting a check for mytrunk, it Was sent on a day too so'oji, and I can't get it till they've dug ft out from under a lot more baggage;:' and instead of coming here in three ho in s, it has taken me six hours, and;-, forty minutes. , , . 'Don't talk to me about planning ahead again; it's been almost the death" of me this time.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 177, 29 July 1898, Page 6
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