New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-06
ALMOST BURIED IN CINDERS.

HE WON HIS BET BUT DIDN'T GET THE MONEY.
He stood in the Grand Central Station tanning him
self with his hat and the cinders on his bald head
looked like pepper q hardbOed egg. Every square
inch Of his short fat person was beghmed and dirty
",spose look like Digger Indian just dug he
remarked, putting his head into the window at the
Bureau of Information. and letting his imitation leather
vase drop on the floor with thud.
"Oh, well little jagged, perhaps" responded the
clerk, politely.
"No jag around me-" said the dirty tourist indig-
namely. Il only got in ten minutes ago.
"SoiD
ayes. Haven't washed sence we left Council
BLUFFS. Would you believe itl"
"Oh, yes"
ave had a gay time, tell yer"
slows that!" inquired the clerk
We'll. you see n feller from South Dakota opened
the wnder inst in font of me. q while after had
started. and the cndcrs in like It a Montana
hallstorm. l didn't want TO pear disObllgin',
stood it fer three hours and then leaned to the
South Dakota feller and says l, Little dusty, amt
it p Mebbe,' says he. Would you mind shutn
down that winder fer spell p says /, as pere you
please. Il find 1t very annoyin' 4 would mind
says he, 'and IL l stand it. I'll bet
you cam Well II it's bet, you say l. Pm in
IL. l don't let South Dakota feler bluff me. I'll
bet you $50, money, you'll weaken that open
window before do
lie looked surprised, but he says, ITS a co.
ave put up the money with the conductor, and he
Struggled up to his winder, and behind, takin' the
dust sOrter second hand At the end of the first
twenty four hours wasn't purity fer cent, and
seed the other Teller squirmin good deal. So
when the train stopped fer dinner sneaked out TO the
endgineer and gave him my last tendoar bill, and
says l. winkin' When you start up the endgne it'll
be pertcker favor 10 me II you won't screen back
them cinders; let 'em flicker for two three hours
Just buzz out every cnder you've got'
MY COAL says he, a winkn back, is terrible soft
and muddy today
Well, sir the next three hours was awful. I never
seed such smoke and coal dust anywhere. The way
that engine snorted and blowed and them cinders
ratified and battered scared the passengers of
the train. 1t actually seemed though the screen
business had busted clean out Of the smoke
stack and let the coal blow through in
chunks. The dirt was so thick on my face you
could have wrote my name in it, but that feller
from South Dakota lie caught them cinders right in the
neck. He was almost buried. There cnders in
his hair, cinders in his mustache they worked down
inside his collar; into his vest pockets And when he
started to brace up chew, blamed II no didn't bite
more cnders than tobacker About then it up
to rn and for hour that teller from South Dakota
looked like he was dredged up from mud pond. When
along come red rot cnder big pea and lit on
his beard. The brakeman helped him put out the fire.
but Just tncn the train teller up
and says he Il weaken. take the cash. and he walked
RI gt OF the train. Then all the passengers congratu-
lated me. They said dirty, but game"
$50 you got the money! inquired the clerk with
some interest.
"Wel that's the tronble.r reioined the dirty trav-
eller While was fXin' the engineer blamed II that
Ornery from South Dakota wasn't goin' bet
ter and Akin the conductor and they foze to the cash
and skipped together. The trouble with me IS" added
the grmy traveller gazing out pcnsvey at the Forty
1dIn', always been Say he added in whisper.
pokng his dirty head in the window gimme quarter
fer a wash, will yer7''