The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-30
Sleeping in the Cars-A Rich Joke

great many funny things happen, and any
quantity of amusing stories are told of occurrences
that take place on railroads. A little incident trans
PRED last week on the road between here and RO-
chester, that IS really about good of Its kind as
anything we have heard lately, and proves, cOnclu-
sively, that the longest way round Is the sHreSt
,0ay home"
One of our " fellow-citizens'' having business to
transact at Syracuse took the evening train here at
O'Clock and departed on his journey. Having
been labOriously engagedduring the day, and con
sdeably fatgUed he fell sound asleep just the other
side of Attica, and only stirred from his position
when the conductor came about to collect tickets.
Tempus fugited rapidly, and the cars soon reached
Rochester. Here, the traveller Will remember,
passengers are transferred TO another train which
takes them east; and those who had come down
from the west had arranged themselves comfortably
i'm the other train-all except " our friend" lie
was SO sound asleep that nothing walked him. The
consequence was that the cars started promptly at
their time, and he was left ItsO happened that no
one went into the car, and he remained perfectly
undisturbed. The train from the east arrived Just
as the other leaving, and passengers for Buffalo
left the cars in which they had been riding, and
stepped into those going west-intO the same train,
in fact, by which our friend" had gone TO Koch
ESTER and where he still remained, enjoying mag
niicent nap Another conductor was In charge OF
the train and when near the water station, six
miles west of the city, gave the usual significant IN
tmafiOn-s' Tickets ~ g Our friend'' had to be
tapped on his shoulders once or twice before he
g Took" and seeing new conductor, supposed
everything was all right.
Do you go through, sir - asked the conductor
Yes" replied the sIeepy-head, with yawn
I'll take your fare."
$ How much %
g Eleven shillings."
Well, that's cheap lSupposing, doubtless,
that he was paying from Rochester to Auburn)
And forking over the amount, he subsidized into his
former position, to finish his snooze. Two hours
more brought them to Attica but not even the
g noise and confusion at that great point, nor the
sonorous announcement that " the cars IClh stop
fifteen minutes and give passengers plenty of time
for refreshments" could disturb the slumbers of
"our friend" Those fifteen minutes, however,
soon passed the engineers bell rung; the COnduc-
Tor gave twitch of the . BEDFORD, and the train
was O-p-h Somewhere near Peters milk metrOpO-
lis the conductor opened the car-dOOr and exploded
on the word =" TTck-ETsn' But 'our friend was
deaf 10 the intimatiOn.
Ticket, sir" said the conductor, giving him a
good shake on the shoulder.
. W-h-a-t!''
''Take your fare, if you please"
Oh-Y-e-s BY George Eve slept like a
book all the way never had a better nap in the
ears in my life. What's the fare -
g Nineiy-three cents, sir"
g Well, that is cheap-cheaper than ! ever paid
BEFORE tthe fare from Auburn 10 Syracuse Is eight
or nine shillings,) and after paying up, he wrggled
about until he got quirled" up into about the same
attitude in which he had been TepOsng, and went
at it again.
By and by the cars arrived at the depot, and he
was necessarily reused up. Twas no use TO try
and sleep amidst such an uproar there is when a
train arrives here, and he accordingly slid out. "
On aghtng, he stopped shOrt-stared about-rub-
bed his eYes-stared again-looked at the lamps
then at the conductor, and finally exclaimed
" Wei t-by-thunder -
''What's the matter % asked the conductor.
:" This is too bad"
"What %
&c Look here, friend, should just like to know
Irhere / an ?"
''Where you are!
eyes"
"Why, in Buffalo, to be sure you can't go any
farther west OH this road"
"Well, this is pretty business. Last night
took the cars go Syracuse and now find myself
at five O'Clock in the morning, back at Buffalo. II
| amt an ass, then there never was one" And of
he went, muttering and swearing, to and at himself
the swearing being done up in a language ner-
vous. but inelegant-strong, but very unsentimen-
tai such as would be quite improper to repeat to
ears polite.
The fact is, it is Just as Reed told him, the only
correct way to go TO Syracuse TO be and take
the right train at ROchester.-BufdiO Courier.