The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-04-18
Trying to Sleep Under Difficulties.

He got on the train at Colfax, and
walking into the sleeping-car, pulled
out 81, and demanded of the African the
lowest berth.
"Allfull, sah."
"Lower berths all takenp Well, I'm
devilish sleepy; I'll take an upper
berth but it's pretty note that mqn
can't get a lower berth on this road.
Here, chuck that sack into some safe
place, and be careful and not mash the
bottle in the top. Take this money,
quick, and get the bed ready"
L" De lower berths is all full, sab and
so is de upper. Ebery ting was gagged
sab, before we left Sacramento. Ye
Se-n
"The h you sayi"
When the man finished blowing off
his steam he bounced into the other car,
slammed down his valise, and woke up
another man who was snoozing in his
seat, to tell him that the sleeper was
full. The other man informed him that
he knew all about that four hours be-
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The disappointed passenger then put
his carpet-sack under seat and COM
posed himself to slumber by running his
knees as high up on the back of the next
seat as possible, while he slid down on
his own seat as low as he could, until
the back of his head rested on the top
| of brass screw which was used in the
upholstery In this position his body
assumed the form of letter n turned
upside down. At first he imagined he
could rest forever in this comfortable
position, and dropped off to sleep.
The conductor came along and woke
him up for his ticket. He was under
considerable obligations to the conduc-
tor for waking him up, as he did, for he
found that his joints were getting stiff,
! and another Is minutes of it would have
crippled him for life.
He next put his sack at the end of the
seat and used it for the end of pillow.
When he laid down his head on the car
pet-sack his cheek became smeared
with fresh quid of juicy tobacco which
the sack had picked up from the floor.
He then remarked C. ---i" a few
times, removed the tobacco and curled
himselfup for a nap.
He was in good position, and his feet
stuck through the end of the seat and
hung into the aisle. Presently man
got up to get drink, and he had to
move the obstruction by pulling them
through the ornamental work and hold
ing them in the air until the man got
his drink and went back. By the time
seventeen other passengers had drank,
he concluded his position might be i'm
proved, and asked brakeman to turn
two seats facing each other. The brake
man said he couldn't. He had the same
luck with a baggagemaster and news
boy. He then tried to pick the lock
with his knife, and broke four blades
out of six in IL minutes.
At length the conductor came along
and fixed the seat. He then endeavored
to sleep by putting his heels in one seat
and his head in another. The seat get
the best of the bout in ten minutes. He
then placed his carpet-sack between the
seats, and sat down on it, with his legs
on the top of the seat ahead, and his
head laid back on the seat behind. The
seats won this round in twelve seconds.
He then took the cushions and stretched
them on the frames of the seats parallel
with the cars.
When he coiled himself up in this po-
sitiOn he thought it was a veritable
dream of the Alhambra, -" and in three
minutes he was asleep, and in four he
thought he had just been elected to Con
gress from his State by an overwhelm-
ing majority Then he dreamed he was
lost on an iceberg in the Polar seas, land
woke up to find that man who had got
off at Verdi had left the door open, and
the cold air of the mountains was pour
ing in on him. He tried to warm up
with drink, but found his bottle smash
ed, at which he remarked as formerly
g" and walked up and down the
car, repeating it every ten minutes until
he reached Reno. Next time he travels
in the night he says he will engage a
sleeper month ahead Virginia Nee. J
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