IAN MACLAREN ON THE THIRD CLASS PASSENGER.

Evening Star, Issue 9830, 19 October 1895, Page 3 (Supplement)

LAN MACLAREN ON THE THIRD CLASS PASSENGER.

It may be granted (says lan MacJaren in the ' British Weekly') that the aboriginal third has not yet mastered the unwritten laws of the window and the rackj nor will he always make haste to open the door for an outgoing passenger, but he will not fill up spare seats with rugs, and pretend to some hot, dusty, anxious woman that they are occupied, and he will make room for a fifth person on his side, which is surely the last sacrifice required of the travelling public in this poor world. One may, however, freely grant that the crisis of farewell —one of the most trying moments of life — passes more successfully at the door of the first, where the hostess and her departing guest prattle for ten minutes on incidents of Continental travel till the train moves. Things drag heavily next door, especially in the North. " Hae ye yir ticket safe ?" " Michty, if it's not lost!"—frantic search on the part of everybody, and discovery of the ticket in person's pocket. " That's a mercy, at ony rate." " Aye, it's no handy tobewithoot a ticket." "A've heard ye hae tae pay double"—endeavoring to.prolong the conversation. "Ye'ill write/'juist tosayye'fe safe." "A'hope the'ill no be an accident." "Dinna speak aboot it What wull ye aye be thinkin' o' accidents for?"— and so on, with toil and sweat of lumbering minds.