The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-01-19

forward and then backward. an an.
other cuss, with . bullfrog voice. or
dered me to Wakes pi tho. devil wnnts
your
You needn't laugh. gentlemen. when
! tell yVu ] run; an sod you II you'd
been thar. was certain the devil had
come for me--iate but sure-an'
didn't wait for him 10 ask for my
ticket
Tom Pope at this point broke into a
~stentorian laugh
III, gentlemen, you'd seen Sandy
come firing into the car where I wa
sitting, you would ncter stop laughing.
You may not believe II. but his brown
face was rs white as your shirt fronts,
and his eyes were as big as billiard
balls. He dashed down the aisle and
whispered Ii my ear:
"sTomi Toni come with mop
What's the matter, MacT l said.
What ails you?'
Tom, the devils in my car. He's
been a-cutting up for half an hour, an,
I'm most crazy. II you're my friend
come with me T.
II wasn't drunk, because he doesn't
drink II wasn't religious enthusiasm,
because Sandy has no religion
II almost believe he meant what he
said, and that he had been called for.
! got up in . hurry anIfollowed him.
II hadn't more than got inside the
baggage car when, from among the
trunks, something sung out: Shut that,
door and pull down your vesti'
SANDY wanted to fight, then con-
tinned Tom. sIIc danced around that
car like q prizc-hghter ID the ring.
sPshawr said. that's a boxed-up
parrot.
.tAn' then the parrot told You you
lied asserted McTougal.
''Yesl' says Tom, cheerfully.
And then you said-do you renen-
Der what you said?' I
mo. Mac; but wasn't ! at your side
when we got into the next coach a sec
ond Iaterq',
1--WE came back with two bralsemen,"
McTougal remarked, continuing. "one
OF them brakemen looked on top Of the
ar, an under il, nm in II. He stuck to
1t that there was q ve~ntriloquist about,
but gave that idea up when he couldn't
find nobody
1--WE flung those trunks right and
left ia q lively style observed Pope;
',but not a thing did we discover-no
human living or dead thing--not 4
place from which the noise came.
I'VE were puzzled, you may believe,
and il the search had stopped there The
road might. have warehoused that
coach, for no railroad man would have
travelled in a car that was haunted. :
but the end came. While we were
looking into each others faces, and
frightened in being blocked in that sort
Of way the voice spoke again. 1t said
very distinctly: Let me outi lam dy-
ing-dyingl'n
ut was under my arm the voice
was" Sandy exclaimed, .'in o big trunk
that had come from camp-meeting. H
sung out for Jake to run for a doctor II
there was one on the train an Tom
an me put that trunk ON the floor as
gently as il twas glass.
"'Twas light enough. We thought
the poor thing must be almost a skel-
eton. ! got hold of the sledge hammer.
'Reepup your courage, m 'am,' / shout
ed, an Wen have you out in a jiffy.s"
@You should see Sandy at THAI mo-
ment, said Pope. enthusiastically. He
looked like a hero, every inch OF him.
He gaya that hammer four sweeping
swing5 Grashtt crash! Rip! teari or
came the top, and it was flung clean
across the a A pile Of light, fleecy
stuff followed
IA dozen faces looked n iously in
to that trunk, expecting to see the
body af~a dyinR7nr dead woman Sandy
seemed beside himself with anxiety.
I'VE crowded around the trunk aud
the doctor knelt down beside it.
.IIe pulled out a lot OF rags very
carefully, run his arms down on a
prospecting tour. lifted up a great wad
Of cotton, took q good long look
under it, rose ia his feet and began to
curse everybody, and call 'em a pack
Of fools. Then he changed his tune
and began to laugh.
81 asked him a little anggily what he
was making such u fuss about, and If
he proposed TO take out the body.
BODY bodyl la, la, ha, ha! See
here. gentlemen an4@he tossed out the
cotton from the trunk, showing a
funny-looking machine at the bottom.
This is Stringfellow's photograph
that. he's had down to camp meeting,
the doctor said. lie took one and
rugged it up so as to go BY clockwork.
The shaking Of the ear set it in mo-
ton.
Its been repeating, parrot like,
only what has been told to it by the
saints and sianers, Very simple, Won
see. ] won't charge you anything for
my visit, conductor Good night and
of heTwent
SANDY, our friends here want to
know how that dream Of yours over
that trunk ended
''Oh! they do, do they2 Wal, gentle
men, Ishad to pay the cost OF that
trunk, AMI trunks. cost. 1t took a
months salary to do II, which isn't
complimentary to the road.
learned one lesson. II | ever
want ter open any mans luggage in
future, I'll smash it professional
style. Boston Globe.
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