The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-03-23

seats near the glowing stove, and, despite
the heat, the four boys were soon sound
asleep and making involuntary lunges in
the direction of the stove. The largest
boy 140 pounder-had made the third
groove in the floor with his nose, in very
close proximity to the stove, when one OF
the men, clad in very long blue blanket
coat and wearing the rimless crown of a
wool hat, jerked the youngster back into
sitting posture, fairly believing at him
That's three times you've done that. I
suppose yer intend to keep it up until yer
scour yer nose of, or d--n yc," Continued he,
with increased irritation and giving the lad
a sound smack on the ear--"or d-n ye, set
yer hat afire!"
After four rather persistent efforts of the
whole party to get off at the wrong station
the conductor, according to repeated prom
iseS announced the trains arrival at their
point of destination. One of the men, in
his shirt sleeves at once commenced (much
to the annoyance of several lady passen-
gers to sweep his long arms under ali the
neighboring seats in search Of something
and was manlfesting purpose to
go through the whole car in that
manner when a companion on the
platform blurted out "Hell, Bill; come on;
I've got yer coatw And then came ques-
tons and cross.questions without number:
"Where's the factory bundles"
as the fro and foot.adze foundYn-aIl
followed by solemn admonition from one
of the women: "For the Lords sake,
'Lisha, don't forget the coffee pot and catr'
Lisha at once testified to the safety of the
kitchen utensil indicated, and a scratching
noise and half-smothercd new from within
the same, testified with equal certainty that,
for convenience OF transportation, the cat
had actually been stuffed into the coffee
pot
"Well," remarked the elder woman, as
she reached the ground, "sich other hours
as tins night has been never hope to pass
agin while here | am a pilgrim | was
ever instant ateerd the cars would run away
and tear US all to flinders; and to make
matters a thousand times wuss, the con
ductor" Whose body merely responded to
the lurchings of the train)-"the conductor
was SO frightiul drunk that he couldn't
walk down the passage without grabln
seats or holdin' on to somethin'. Don't
tell me. | know what see and no one
can know it better" All this at the ex-
pense Of mild hammered young man who
looked as il, during all his life
he had irrigated his stomach with
nothing stronger than watered milk,
was such preposterous drive" as sat the
by-standers into a roar again.
And now that the two women, three men
and four boys were safely landed on terra
frma, the woman who had just expressed
her horror of the supposed inebriety of the
conductor, discovered that the hackle was
left" Of course the boy with the smacked
ear was ordered TO mount and get it. He
reached the car door Just as the train com
menced moving, when he was informed by
the same woman: "Why here's the hackle
Wish may never if | amt holdin' OF
it, To regain his companions the indis.
Greet youth of the hot auric appendage
gave vigorous jump directly at right
angles with the moving train. Manifest
indications Of some ground and lofty tum-
bling followed; but through the drifting
snow and above the rumble of the train
came the unmistakable words: well,
Cd d-n that hacklc,"
And thus ended the sixty mile ride Of
these nine innocents, who were not "human
hogs" and partly became they were not
much travelled"