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tains and sit down on my berth and
begin to pull off his boots. and 1
would tell him the berth was occu
pied, and that he must have made a
mistake, and he would look around
at us as innocent as could be, and
ask our pardon, and then go out and
damn the porter. Once felt some
body feeling about my berth, and /
asked what was the matter, and the
fellow said he was looking for my
wife's shoes to black. Then about
every Is minutes the conductor would
open the curtains and hold red Ian
tern in and ask for tickets. / think
they punched my ticket 65 times.
Anyway it looked like porous plas-
ter when l got up in the morning. l
think it was the travelling men who
were playing conductor, but was
sleepy and / thought the best way
was to let them punch it. Well,
about 3 o'clock in the morning some
body punched us and said it was time
to get up, and we would have break
fast in fifteen minutes. And then
we hustled around and got dressed
the best way we could, laying on our
backs and kicking our clothes up in
the air and catching them on ourselves
when they came down. I got my
pants on wrong side before and lost
everything out of my pockets, and
my wife lost her hair and had to tie a
handkerchief around her head, and
then We had our berths made up and
sat up until daylight, and the porter
found my wife's hair and pinned it to
the curtains of berth occupied by a
preacher from Oshkosh, and he kicked
and got mad and talked about it, and
wondered how it came there, and he
swore about it, and l think he travels
for an Oshkosh carriage factory. Oh,
1 never had such night, or two such
nights, in all my life, and what want
to know is if can be quiet here, and
have chance to get little-sleep
and not be annoyed" The hotel
man told him if anybody came around
to knock them clear down stairs and
he would be responsible, and the col
ored man showed them a room, and
they have not showed up since. 1t
is confounded mean for travelling
men to get showed in and form a syn
dictate to have fun. They will cause
themselves to be disliked if they
keep on.
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