and greenhouses; but it was more adventurous.  He really liked it, and he would get even more used to it in time so he wouldn’t hardly notice it at all.  As he stood there waiting for a trolley car he must of thought up a whole headful of things he’d buy with all these sudden emoluments.  Several motor cars passed while he waited and he noticed that folks in ’em all turned to look at him in an excited way.  But he knew all Americans was crazy and liable to be mad about something.

Pretty soon a car stopped and some people got off the front end.  They stopped short and begun to look all round ’em in a frightened manner—­two ladies and a child and an old man.  The conductor also stepped off and looked round in a frightened manner; but he jumped back on the car quick.  Lew Wee then hopped on to the back platform, with his baggage, just as it started on.  It started quick and was going forty miles an hour by the time he’d got the door open.  The two women in the car screamed at him like maniacs, and before he’d got comfortably set down the conductor had opened the front door and started for him.  He got halfway down the car; then he started back and made a long speech at him from the front end, while the car stopped like it had hit a mountain, throwing everyone off their seats.

Lew Wee gathered that he was being directed to get off the car quickly.  The other passengers had crowded back by the conductor and was telling him the same thing.  One old gentleman with a cane, who mebbe couldn’t walk good, had took up his cane and busted a window quick and had his head outside.  Lew Wee thought he was an anarchist, busting up property that way.  Also the motorman, who had stopped the car so soon, was now shaking a brass weapon at him over the heads of the others.  So he thought he might as well get off the car and save all this talk.  He’d got his fare out, but he put it back in his pocket and picked up his sack and went out in a very dignified way, even if they was threatening him.  He knew he had something worth twenty-five dollars in his sack, and they probably didn’t know it or they wouldn’t act that way.

He set down and waited for another car, still spending his money.

The next one slowed down for him; but all at once it started up again more swift than the wind, he says; and he could see that the motorman was a coward about something, because he looked greatly frightened when he flew by the spot.  He never saw one go so fast as this one did after it had slowed up for him.  It looked like the motorman would soon be arrested for driving his car too fast.  He then had the same trouble with another car; it slowed up, but was off again before it stopped, and the people in it looked out at him kind of horrified.

It begun to look like he wasn’t going to ride to the city in a trolley car.  Pretty soon along the road come a Japanese man he knew.  His name was Suzuki Katsuzo; and Lew Wee says that, though nothing but a Japanese, he is in many respects a decent man.  Suzuki passed him, going round in a wide circle, and stopped to give him some good advice.  He refused to come a step nearer, even after Lew Wee told him that what he had in the sack was worth a lot of money.