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 Down Indiana Avenue.'

Will it land us anywhere near the University?'

About two miles.'

"Uncle Fred groaned. 'See here,' he said, 'if you wanted to go to the University and hadn't any tag around your neck, what would you do?'

Well,' said the conductor, 'if you had spoken before we got to Eighteenth Street, I could have transferred you to the car ahead; but as it is, I guess you'd better stay on until we get to Thirty-first Street, and I'll give you transfers onto the Thirty-first Street line, and then the conductor on that line will give you transfers back onto the Cottage Grove line.'

All right,' said Uncle Fred, meekly, 'anything you say. Give us the transfers, and if I don't get off at the right street, just kindly throw me off, will you?'

"The conductor laughed again and punched some long pink slips and held them out; but Uncle Fred shook his head and pointed to me. 'Give them to the lady,' he said, 'I'm not responsible.'

"I folded the slips and put them into my pocket, and then we rode for quite a long time. By and