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_He Didn't Mind His Going Once_
An elderly gentleman, a stranger in New York and not sure of his way,
stopped a young man on Fifth Avenue and said:
"Young man, I would like very much to go to Central Park."
The young man became thoughtful for a moment, and then, looking the
old gentleman in the face, said:
"Well, I don't mind your going just this once, but don't ever, ever
ask me to go there again."
_Never Again_
It was a pitiful mistake, an error sad and grim. I waited for the
railway train; the light was low and dim. It came at last, and from a
car there stepped a dainty dame, and, looking up and down the place,
she straight unto me came. "Oh, Jack!" she cried, "oh, dear old
Jack!" and kissed me as she spake; then looked again, and, frightened,
cried, "Oh, what a bad mistake!" I said, "Forgive me, maiden fair,
for I am not your Jack; and as regards the kiss you gave, I'll
straightway give it back." And since that night I've often stood upon
that platform dim, but only once in a man's whole life do such things
come to him.
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