the train elsewhere, they were ejected, and the
unfortunate one took their place. The other passengers were naturally
rather indignant; and, seeing this, the successful intruder quietly said,
"I am very sorry to have had to turn those two gentlemen out, especially
as I have heard them say they were already late for an important
engagement in the city; and I am all the more sorry, seeing that I only
hold a third-class ticket myself."

--_Truth_.

THE BOOKING-CLERK AND BUCKLAND.

Mr. Frank Buckland had been in France and was returning via Southampton,
with an overcoat stuffed with natural history specimens of all sorts,
dead and alive. Among them was a monkey, which was domiciled in a large
inside breast-pocket. As Buckland was taking his ticket, Jocko thrust up
his head and attracted the attention of the booking-clerk, who
immediately--and very properly--said, "You must take a ticket for that
dog, if it's going with you." "Dog," said Buckland, "it's no dog, it's a
monkey." "It is a dog," replied the clerk. "It's a monkey," retorted
Buckland, and proceeded to show the whole animal, but without convincing
the clerk, who insisted on five shillings for the dog-ticket to London.
Nettled at this, Buckland plunged his hand into another pocket and
produced a tortoise, and laying it on the sill of the ticket window said,
"Perhaps you'll call that a dog too." The clerk inspected the tortoise.
"No," said he, "we make no charge for them--they're insects."

REMARKABLE RESCUE OF A CHILD.

An engineer on a locomotive going across the western prairie day after
day, saw a little child come out in front of a cabin and wave to him, so
he got in the habit of waving back to the child, and it was the day's joy
to see this little one come out in front of the cabin door and wave to
him while he answered back. One day the train was belated, and it came
on to the dusk of the evening. As the engineer stood at his post he saw
by the headlight that little girl on the track, wondering why the train
did not come, looking for the train, knowing nothing of her peril. A
great horror seized upon the engineer. He reversed the engine. He gave
it in charge of the other man, and then he climbed over the engine, and
he came down on the cowcatcher. He said though he had reversed the
engine, it seemed as though it were going at lightning speed, faster and
faster, tho