Seeing the Superintendent.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1809, 9 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Seeing the Superintendent.

In the oiKce of a certain western railroad superintendent it \va3 understood that when a common looking stranger entered the outer office and asked for the great mogul one of the several young men therein employed should claim to be the official wanted, and turn the bore away. The other day a webfooted stranger, with a business squint to his eyes, aiked to see the superintendent, and tho chief clerk promptly replied : " Yes, sir : what can I do for you ? " " Are you the man ? " 111 am." " No mistake V " " None at all." " Then it's all right, Six months ago one of your trains killed a cow for me, and you have been just mean enough not to answer any of my letters. Old hoss, I'm going to lick $3j out of you." 11 But, sir, you see—" "I see nothing but you 1 Prepare to be licked !" * And the proxy superintendent was not only mopped around the room and flung into the wood box as limp as a clothes line, but the cow owner kicked the others out door and upsdt the desks and tables -with the remark :—: — " The next time I do business with this corporation, I want you t© not only reply to my letters, but to put • in haste ' on your envelopes."

Alligator belt? are very popular with the girls just now, but calf skin and broad cloth will resume its old time popularity when the evenings grow a little warmer ; just as it was last year. — Wall Street News.

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