The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-07-07
SEEING WAS BELIEVING.
The First Railway Train That Ever Poked
Its Nose Into Arkansas.

The First Railway Train That Ever Pokod
Its Nose Into Arkansas.
The work Of laying the track had
been regarded with great interest. not
unmixed with considerable incredulity
concerning the final result. One old
man, who seemed to be leader among
his neighbors, swore that a wagon
could not run along on them iron
things" such thing was impossible.
s.No usen talkin' to me-" he said,
''I've been about as fur from home as
the next man, an amt never seed
nothin' O. that ar sort yit This here
thing O. squirtin' hot water and smoke
into a cart an maxim it hull out across
the country might do for the preachers
to give out, an might dofo the broth
ers and sisters TO sing about, but when
You pitch it down TO the nachul old
business itself, wy she amt thar, that's
all"
Uncle Lige." said a young fellow,
who had heard the ole mans declara-
ton, ''they say that the thing ken out
run houn' dog"
"Yas, they say a good many things,
Tommy. They ulster say that Bill An
derson could whip me, but they got
nightly left on it. Don't let these
Yankees pull the wool over your eyes.
Tommy. When they prove to you
that they can run a wheelbarrow with
a mouthful o. water an a sneeZe, then
believe that they ken shove a wagon
by steam. an not before"
Uncle Lige. they not only claim to
run wagon BY steam, but say that
they can send letters on them wires
they are putin up. What do you think
o. that?"
"All lie, Tommy ken tote let
ter in my hip pocket faster than they
can shove it in all them wires"
When the first train came, old Uncle
Lige left his pillow and ran down to the
railroad.
Hold on tharrt' he exclaimed,
"stop your dinged contrapshun a
mint =" The Superintendent of the
road, having heard of the old mans
peculiarities, instructed the engineer
to humor his whims.
"Look a here, gentlemen, you say
that little squirt O. steam an damp air
moves that thing?"
"Yes."
"Wall. I'll be dinged eff that don't
cut a notch little higher up than L
ken reach. Blast me, if don't git one
an set it to plowin' in nv field"
won't You get on and take ride
with me?" asked the engineer
"Wall, no; not eff it's ies' the same
to all hans consarned. / don't mind
tamperin' with mad steer, an have
been knOw'd TO hitch up with painter.
an cut the cold frosty air full o scol-
lops. but I'll be dinged eff / am ready
TO slide down hill on tumb-stonc."
''No danger at all, old man."
''No. l reckon not. Sid Perdue
lowed thar warn't no danger at the.'
saw-mill, but he was fotch home one
day with his back split open like a
locust. / amt Altered TO die, podner.
but / amt hankern' arter it. / never
had graspin' disposition. nOhow"
80 You believe now that wagons
can he run by steam"
''Yas, am prepared to believe every
thing now. Eff man was to tell me
that these Yankees had teached a cross
cut saw how TO set up an play a fiddle,
/ wouldn't be prepared to dispute it.
Wall, goodbye. you NAV not run agin
suthin' an break YOUR blamed neck,
bui I'll be dinged if / don't hope so.
Such devilish cOntrapshuns is danger
Gus to the country. '-DrGke' TrareI-
erS' Magazine.