The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-04-13
TERMS Shopper year, in advaI ce
Six Months so cents.

Tom laughed this off for want of
something to say back at him, and
finally says:
"Say, Jerry, is your head as hard as
your face looks. It's foine spikemall
that head of yours would make, with a
nice hickory handle stuck in your ear"
"Never moind me head, Tom, it grew
on me. 1t wasn't stuck on the side of
me shoulder like yours was" s.
eyes, Jerry, but your as bald as a
ball. How do you account for that?"
"Well, don't no, Tom, how that hap
pened. But it's a foine growth of hair
you does have, Tom."
Indeed 1 have. Jerry"
"Did you ever see bald headed fool
in your loife, Tom?"
II did not, Jerry, now that ye re-
moinde me of it,"
swell Tom, that accounts for my
bald-head and your great growth of
hair. Now smoke that while I take a
little walk up the cut for meself."
When Jerry came back it seemed
evident that Tom was not disposed to
continue sparring words with him, and
they both appeared very much occupied
with their own thoughts, until six
o'clock, when we all got aboard the
train. On our way back the CONVEX
sation drifted to the matter of fast
riding on trains. They all told story,
until Jerry was requested by Tom to
give an account of some fast rides he
took when he was working on the
Donemorah and South Cork Ry. Jerry
started off this way: ---.--- =
"The fastest ride l ever took in me
loife was on the d. S. and G. Ry. Big
Bull Shea was superintendent at the
time and me and the gang were all
loaded on to special train one bright
day in June. There was a wreck up
the road about so miles from my Sec
tion, and the conductor had orders to
get us there as fast as the divil would
take him; and when Bull Shea gave an
order, it was as good as a mans job
was worth, if he didn't carry it out.
Well the boys were no sooner inside the
car, then the conductor shouted to the
brakeman in the lookout safes: Give
him h1ghball, Mickey, and all ye men
hang on to your safes, for we amt going
to touch nothing but the high spots be.
tween here and the wreck Well we
started so quick that L nearly lost me
breath. BY and by took squint out
of the windy, and the teligraph-poles
looked like picket fence. 1 asked the
conductor how fast we were running,
and ne said that the eagle oye was
throwing three miles of track under us
at every turn of the wheel. Well, I
guess he was alroigt, for when looked
out again, the telegraph poles seemed
no larger than tootpicks. Then the
eagle oye blew the whistle, and we
stopped. We all got out and began
clearing up the wreck. After we had
been working about an hour, someone
in the gang shouted to clear the track.
livery mothers son but me jumped to
one side. was paralyzed with fear
for there approaching me was a big,
dark object, as big as a house. 1t was
coming so fast couldn't get out of the
way if [ wanted to, so 1 began to say
me prayers, for 1 knew me tonne had
come. 1 closed me eyes and waited for
it to mangle me into mince meat, like
you find yourself after being killed by
the train; but the big dark thing slowed
up and stopped about tin feet beyant
the track. Then opened me Dyes and
seen was still aloive."
Here Jerry stopped and lit his pipe.
''Well Jerry, what was that big, dark
thing, that skeered ye SOP" Tom asked.
"De ye want to know rale bad p"
"Of course do, jerry"
"You wont foire me if I tell We
Tom?"
"Indade L wont, Jerry"
"Then Tom, it was the shadow of the
train. We bate it an hour" .
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