The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-01

From the New Orleans Iimes-DemOCrat
There is a railroad not "A thousand
miles away from New Orleans which
is covered with water nearly the en-
tire year, in fact whenever stiff
shower of rain falls the road goes
under The trainmen have become So
accustomed to sliding through about
two feet water ut the rate OF eight or
ten miles an hour, that they imagine
that they are leading sailors life,
and when they walk they swagger
aud roll from one side TO the other
and hitch up their trousers at regular
intervals and use nautical expressions
when they converse with each other.
Not long ago u passenger boarded
train on the road, and when the
porter came through the car he iuguir-
ed how long il took to his destination,
Bugleyille, about sixty miles up the
line.
II can't say zackly, boss" replied
the porter, "cos il ponds on how de
wcddor is. 1t dc wind amt in our
eye, and ii de sea is smooth, ives
| gwine to make fast passage, and
will land you at Buglcville inside FER
four days; but ii amt certain, boss, Ms
we hocrd dis mornin' dat dar was
pow'ful deep water at Mud Bayou and
err high sea runnin', and il dat's true
wen have TO lay close to de shore at
Browns Point and ics' wait for 'er to
calm, an dc Lord only knows VIXEN
dat will be-"
"Wcll, porter, you"
"Not porter, boss. Use de captains
mate, sah.'
"All right, then, mate" continued
passenger, "get me lower berth in
the forward sleeper, so that II ] be-
come sea sick eau stick my head out
of the scupper in II hurry
"Ncs, boss, I'll put you down berth
on de port side and in dc middle Ter
de sleeper, so dat when we strike dc
ground swclls oil Gun Island you
won't feel dc pitchin', sar. Un dc last
passage 1t was monstrous rough, and
one gem'an de whole night
was pow'ful sick, and kept
workin' dc lee scupper fol-
all he know how, aud one 'er de
crew, while tying red light jes'
abaft de gangway 'er de after sleeper
fell over de railing and drowned fore
we could round TO, and since dat time
we carried two lifcboa,s."
The porter was ON the point of re
lating other narrowing tales of thu
sea when he was suddenly called ava.
to stand hiswatch amidships, and sooi
after he had gone the skipper, o
rather the conductor of the train, en-
tered the car, and the passenger said
Conductor, do you sail this trail
by New Orleans timer"
"Sail by New Orleans exclaimed
the conductor angrily: "shiver m
foregallant royal--blast my ate
hatchl DO you think Pm er lubbeI
No sir, we sail by compass, and
we did not we'd sheer from our cours
Tl some fine night and go head on int
the woods and smash our bOttol
in against lot of cypress snags an
mud-lumps;" and the conductor, afte
h. hurting look of supreme contemI
nj the passenger, moved toward I'll
forward end of the car and sang oil
In high tones, port watch ahoyW
"Aye, aye, sir" came u reply. TAX
n few reefs on the mizzcn brake an
tell the first mate in the forecastle
drop anchor nj Snider's Grove so "
70 can send the captains gig ashore fC
, passengers aud baggage.
: aye, aye, sir" ana u
brakeman moved oil to o.
eento the order, but SUI
denly returned, and, rushing up 60 Il
conductor, sGluted him and said: "Ca
!, tain, the iorecastle watch says we al
commencing 10 enter deep sea, nj
he is afraid it will soon put out h
fires Of the ongine.'
"rRke in all sail,p howled the co
: ductor, "and tell the ships hoy
crawl out on the head chains Al
heave the lead"
AYE, aye, sir" and again the brak
man rushed away TO give the orde
~ and In II few moments the pie butch
or out on the pilot disturbed the silen
: of the night by singing out, CIV
Z feet three and half Full fourl Nv
10 feet iiyei Two full six! Threel
=, "Reef the lead line, round TO al
& cast anchor ut Bogtown," ordered t