The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-14
ANOTHER GoRDu)AN KNOT.


Just as No. Q was leaving Marshall the
other day. n young man applied to Conductor
Curran, in charge of the train, foc permits
sion to work his way through: to Dallas, as
bralSesman. This being granted, he took his
wheel and came through. On Sunday morn
ing he got suddenly sleepy and laid himself
out in the caboose to appease the drowsy
god, and another brakeman, who was in the
caboose at the time, left him, as he supposed,
in innocent slumber, while he went off to
breakfast. On his return from the matutinal
hash, he found on entering that portion OF
the caboose cut Off for II sleeping apartment
for the conductor, that the latter gentle
mans wardrobe had been passed through
with pitchforlS in very active hands,
or that the caboose had taken chill
and shook Its insides up side down
while all unsuspicious of such Vagaries,
on the part of n pitchfork or the caboose the
morning provender was placing itself in the
breakfasting brakemans physical cavern.
Strange to say, however, and notwithstand-
ing all this eruption on the part of the pitch
fork or the caboose itself, there still laid that
guileless child asleep. On waking up he was
much COMPOUNDED to see what had occurred
during his slumber. The brakeman who
first discovered il was also COMPOUNDED. The
conductor, who happened to hear OF IL ana
who was looking on, was also confounded
So were seyaral others connected with No.s
who were present. confounded. 1t was
the confoundedest thing, especially i'll
the mind Of the fellow who slept in
the caboose during the absence OF the
brakeman at breakfast. that ever he
heard of. Finally, the conductor thought he
would see if anything had withdrawn its al
legiance during his absence. Yes, there was
n sixty dollar suit of cloth es pistol and
some other articles. Probably the conductor
might think the young man who took that
morning nap in the caboose bad something
TO do with the secession of the inventory
above. or course not! So the young man
started OFF. SO did breaksman, in few
minutes afterwards, to see which way he
went. Then officer Mixen Joined IN the
walk Likewise n detective. The suit OF
clothes were at length discovered in the brick
building in the rear of the Crutchfield house,
and the pistol in the possession of pawn
broker on Elm street. On inquiry as TO who
left them description corresponding
most internally to the young man that took
that morning;snooze in the caboose, was Civ
en- the officers, and yesterday morning he
was informed by policeman that Judge
Kerfoot and Conductor Curran would like
very much if he would play the ''surprise
party" on them at the court house. He did
so, being OF that constitution of mind which
renders him eyer ready to accommodate
himself to the wishes of others, sometimes
also to accommodate himself to other peo-
pies clothes. On arriving at the court house,
and after being introduced to the judge, he
was honored by being the subject OF con-
versation between that gentleman and sew
eral other parties present, at the conclusion
of which he was invited to join in little Jig
with an officer, who did'st stop until he had
danced him into the brick establishment on
Houston street, which he Things was the
worse false step in the whole Jig.