The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-30

The clerks at the BOStOn anu IrONi-
dence railroad Office, in Boston, looked
up from their books and accounts, and
saw genuine specimen of the genus
New England Yankee since the days of
enterprise yearly getting scarcer. An
old man of about seventy years OF age,
whose face continually exposed to the
sun had Drowned to mahogany color,
whose thin iron gray hair struggled out
from under felt hat little the worse
for wear, whose, "stOre clothes" were
dozen years old i'm fashion, whose ex-
banded bony hands and vast extent of
wrists projected far beyond the coat cuff,
and broad square brogans, tied with
leather strings and guiltless of blacking,
stuck far through the ends of his panta-
looms.
One of the officials, in answer to the
inquiry, pointed towards desk, where
sat an alert looking, clean cut, all alive
sort of man, and said, "That, sir, is
Mr.. Folsom"
Harnsome said the old fellow,
"yas, so, so; but praise ter the face is
open disgrace, as Aunt Jerusha used to
say"
"What can I do for you to-dayw
asked the superintendent, curiOusly eye
ing the visitor that stood before him, in
the midst of a subdued snicker from the
clerks.
"Day? Yaas, very fine day. Don't
spose you remember me, do ye"
"YOur name / must have forgotten"
"Mustapha Cotton? Thunder, no!
Cotton was the feller that done the
gradin,' only furnished the sleepers."
"What grading do you mean?" said
the superintendent.
"Gradin' done mean! Gosh all hem
lock! ] should thing it was. Bottom
dropped right aout ont" ,, ,,,,.;,o 90
sir, and what do you want of me p said
the official, little nettled.
"Who do l want to see, why yew, IT
yew are the superintendent. Yew are,
amt yep
Eyes" said the railroad officer, with
a nod, "I am"
"Wall, We see, Pm little deaf, and l
used to furnish sleepers for the road, /
did. Sold nigh six hundred, an only
forty thrown aout"
"You must be mistaken" said the
railroad man, shouting into his visitors
ear, "we haven't made any contracts for
sleepers for some years."
"Seven years! Wall darn it all,
twas longer ago than that / made the
trip with Reymund Lee-d'ye remember
Reymund Lea little feller, not ser
tall as yer-smart ez er steel trap.
eyes, remember him, he was super.
intendent on the road twenty years ago. y
"Twenty years ago! Yaas, yaas
Wall, I moved east mOre'n ten years ago
I was farmin' on it then up back OF
Attleberry, owned a piece of land vi
there OH shcers with JOS. Fairbanks
him as broke his leg in harrow in the
! widder Burt's field-darned foOl-tolc
him the steers would start as he might
hev known"
"Well, WE'LL" said the railroad Officer
impatiently, "what is your business p
OVAL, hev been runnin' a thrashin
machine last fall down ter Agusty
Maine, tendin' saw-mill till last week
lumber amt mOv'n so quick ez it uset
to, and---" .,
"What is your business here, !mean 2
bawled the superintendent "What d'
you want ??
Want ?---why, want to go to Attic
berryw m
"Well, why don't you go? There
: the station, and the train leaves in tel
: minutes"
"Wall, I hadn't got any ticket---en G
: you could give me a free pass"
"Why should l pass you free? l Cal
: see no reason"
, "Why, you know, I sold them sleeper
, to Raymund Lee cussed sight too low
/ an he said"
"Whatv' shouted the exasperate
I officer, "Do you mean to come to IN
: for free pass over the road becaus
e twenty years ago you sold Mr.. Lee fit
$ dollars worth of sleepers? This is to
e much"
f "Tew much! No, sir, yew couldn
d buy them air sleepers naow for double I'll
h money, an Raymund Lee he want
a close of his passes, fur when l cum dow
+. here an settled with him an got talkin
d with him, he told me if I'd only go II
It to Attleberry he'd gin me pass
n ."Good graciousw said Folsom, sin
o. ing back into his chair, hoarse and e.
IS hausted with shouting, with the gre
,r drops of Precipitation on his forehea
lie $50 will / if you'll only go. Mr.. s., br
10 him ticket for the next train, al
charge it to my account. l won't wri
N him a pass, he might come back here