Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-12-08
AN ACCOMMODATING RAILROAD.
Voluble Old GentIeman's Mishala anC
How 1T Was Remedied.

A Voluble Old GentIeman's MishaIa and
How 1T Was Remedied-
I've heard of railroads so accommo-
dating that the trains would stop and
let passengers get out and pick black
berries along the line, P" said John Gill
bert, the travelling groceryman, ''but l
ran across railroad up in Pennsylva-
MIA the other day that can give the
blackberry railroads many points. This
railroad runs between Montrose, in Sus
quehanna county, and Tunkhannock,
Wyoming county. 1t is a narrow gauge,
and does big business. 1t is a mo-
nopoly, too, but it evidently means TO
treat every one fairly and kindly. The
day was a passenger on this road a
very voluble old gentleman sat in the
seat directly in front of me. He talked
much, and in talking he opened his
mouth very wide. He had store teeth,
and the plate had either shrunk or the
old gentleman's mouth had expanded
since the teeth were fitted to him, for
they kept bobbing up and down as he
talked like piano keys in action.
You better look out, old man., l
said to myself, for if you haven't got
string to those teeth the first thing you
know they'll desert you
1--WE were tipping along at a pretty
good gait. 1t was a warm day, and
the old gentleman had his window up.
Pretty soon he opened up with a few
remarks, in the middle of which he felt
compelled to laugh. He gave one hi
larious snort, and zip! shot that set of
misfit teeth out of his mouth. 1t wasn't
fatisfied with getting rid of his mouth,
out it threw itself out of the car
through the open window as well.
d" Gosh all tishhooksr was what the
old gentleman undoubtedly imagined
he was saying, but his upper lip was
caved in almost to his palate, and as
he had to push it back and hold it
there with his tongue before he could
talk his words came n trifle thick and
full of splutter. That was all the old
man said, hut he showed his head out
of the window and looked back man
fully toward the spot where his teeth
had left him. We were gone a mile or
more, L guess, before the conductor of
the train had learned of the old gentle
mans bereavement. He pulled the bell
rope. The train was stopped. Then
they backed up to the place where the
teeth had shot out of the window.
There conductor, engineer, fireman and
brakeman formed themselves into a
searching party, and went to work to
look up the lost teeth They searched |
the country on both sides of the track
for several rods, up and down, and at |
the end of half an hour brakeman |
shouted:
Here they be!'
HE had found the old gentleman's
-eeth. They were all there safe and |
sound The old gentleman showed |
hem in his mouth and then said:
:" Gosh II fishhooks! I'd a ketched |
its when l got home if hadn't a found
hem teeth
Then the train started, and the old
nan commenced his talking where he
eft off when his teeth had got tired
md quit him. Nobody seemed to
hink the stopping of the train and go
ng back after the teeth was anything
'ut of the ordinary every day way of
managing a railroad, and | wasn't go
ng to be conspicuous by kicking; but it
vas accommodating, wasn't it2"-New
York SIM