Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-12-27
GETTING A FREE PASS.
"Is the Superintendent about p"

The clerks at the Boston and Provi-
dence railroad Office, in Boston, locked
up. from their books and accounts, and
saw genuine specimen Of the genius
New England Yankee, since the days of
enterprise yearly getting searcer. An old
man of sixty>sevsn or seventy years of
age, whose face continued exposure to the
suns had Drowned to a mahogony color,
whose thin iron gray hair struggled out
from under felt hat little the worse
for wear, whose "store clothes" were a
dozen years old in fashion, whose expand.
ed bony hands and vast extent of wrist
projected far beyond the coat cuff, and
bi Dad square trogans, tied with leather
strings and gultless of backing, stuck
far through the ends of his psntsloons.
One of the officials, in answer to the in.
quiry, pointed towards desk, where sat
mn 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.p f-Ef
"What can l do for you to day ?" ask
ed the uperintendent, curiously oyeng
the visitor that stood before him, in the
midst of subdusd snicker from the
clerks.
''Day? Yaas, very fine day Don't
spose you remem Der me, do ye ?'' 't'
"Your name I must have forgotten"
"Mustapha. Cotton ! Thunder, no
Cotton was the feller who lid the gradin',
1 only furnished the sleepers."
4"What grading do you mean ?" said
the Superintendent.
"Gradn' done mean ! Gosh all hem
lock I should think it was. Bottom
dropped right aout ont"
"What contract are you talking of, sir,
and what do you want Of me ?" said the
official, a little netted. ~
Who do / want to soc, why ysw, IL
yew are the superintendent. Yew air,
amt ye ?"
Yes" said the railroad officer with
nod II am"
"Wall, ye see, I'm little deaf, and
used to furnish sleepers fur the road,
did. Sold nigh six hundred, an only
forty thrown aout."
you must be mistaken, )" said the rail
road man, shouting into his VISITORS ear,
we haven't made any contracts for Sleep
ers Tor some years.
"Seven years Wall darn it nil, twas
longer ago than that. / made the trip
with Rsymund Lee-a little fellar, not
ser tall as yer-smart ez er steel trap"
"Yes, remem Ger him, he was SUPER
indendent Of the road twenty years
ago" ......
Twenty years ago Yaas, Yaas.-
Wall | moved east mcre'n ten years ago,
l was farmin on it then up back of Attic
berry, owned piece Of land up there on
sheers with Jos. Farbanks-him as broke
his leg in harrow in the wId1er Burt's
held-darned fool-tod him the steers
would start as he might have known"
"Well, we'll" said the railroad officer
impatiently, "what is your business ?"
"Wall, / hev been runnin' thrashin
machine last ia down ter Agusty, Name
tendin saw>mill till last week, lumb Der
amt mov'n so quick ez it used to, and"
"What is your business heresI mean?"
bawled the superintendent. "What do
you want % .-... ...s.. liza.
want 2-why, l want to 60 to Attle-
berry -
"Well, why don't you go? There's
the station, and the train leaves in tel
minutes"
wall, | hadn't got any ticket-en eff
you could give me a free pass"
"Why should pass you free 1 can
see no reason -
why, you know, | sold them sleepers
to Raymund Lee cussed sight to low,
an he said
"Whatl" shouted the exasperaied Off
Ger "Do you mean to come to me for
free pass over the road because twenty
years ago you sold Mr.. Lee fifty dollars
worth of sleepers ? This is too much."
"Tew much 1 No, sir, you couldn't buy
them air sleepers naow for double the
money, an Raymond Lee he want 50
close of his passes, fur when Cum down
here an settled with hlm an got talking
with him, he told me If I'd only go up to
Attleberry ned gin me pass"
Good gracious |" said Folsom, sinking
back into his chair, hoarse and exhausted
with shouting, with the great drops of
perspiraton on his forehead. $50 Will l
If yon'll only go. Mr.. s. buy him a
ticket for the next train, and charge it to
my account. / won't write him pass, he
ight come back here on it,"