The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-19
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blue pencil and his black pencil away
his and his trip checks and put them in their
pockets shifted timetable the sti
another pocket picked his lantern The
brakeman coming in just then with sash puer Francis
asked him to clean the globe.
While brakeman fshed for piece of waste, the
ductor moved his wet peg the stove and
better and listened wild old John
Parker had picked about No is being strict
y limited and carrying a diner west of Bear Dance
Without wasting comment Pat looked at his watch and
listened to the click of the the fshplates under
foot angry furnaces
melting coal to push No. against the wind that curled
like corkscrew down the long, Then he
took the lantern his menia quickly thru
the vestibue into the dirty light of
"Tickets!'' SEE
No please, that night Just .ckes! short and snappy
bear trap He could talk differently at home to
the babesbut suggestion kootsying the
down the AISLE pulling. hauling shaking the snorng brues
noting punching checking under the of his lamp until
the last walked into the chair
There only go-back sleepy Italian who couldn't
after he had been of and turned
upside down inside out shaken and cursed-stl
couldn't find his ticket Erlncis passed him with
the shocking inmation which amounted to
that he didn't find by time he back he would
throw him off.
transportation mostly thru tickets and
required only ordinary limits; not much
scalpers stuff turned the Pat called again
as he closed the door OF chair behind him shade less
harshy tickets naturally people
speaks cvy passengers but their
transportation carefully However he wasn't thinking
of wome wles he quietly the seers and asked
They worn tredookng
haggard good of them from catnaps snatched in
sister peacefully in the hamaressed
Pullman berths. He thinking solely he mechanically
went thru the checking operations catteman in
coat tie, by rights
half down the just ahead of him But the
ductor Francis didn't look His rose beyond the
passenger nose company
the curiosity the conductor
strictly with sting in his right that he
would like to land directly under the spotter's
shabby travelling mana cigar man--handed up local
minute before punched it in his pocket
M. Eve don't stop at Antelope Gap Tonight said he,
shortly.
second IVY, Day you dit"
he cried in the most injured tone on the train
Cant help it"
$3.50
"Bu " god dol" cried the cigar raising note Of
absolute terror, passed calmly
Ain't god do" appealed the latter weakening bit
he realized he was against quiet and hard.
local transportation. Tckets! continued to
the next.
But the cigar happily of that does not
Francis expected he would By the time the excited sales
everybody his end Of the worked
himself into ather Pat at him with proposition.
Where you going from Antelope?"
Hat"
What's the with going up to wild Hat tonight
give you Antelope
then you get back II to the Bend?"
The injured considered quickly, accepted speedily
Two hundred miles for nothing My frent Half cigar
forged TRANSPORTATION back, will your? The
nodded cigar stoically
It stop saved and the Antelope stop
any time with a big train like No. T.
Francis had reached the of the chair when he
forgotten something. stopped
think. The catteman! Turning he looked back
the he walked slowly back thru
looking fellow.
walking back, Francis dismissed him with the conclu
that he gotten off Bend; air
chair cleaner
thenthat Only to take the batch Of
each conductor of the
Portland sleeper which only
with tactless gone bitter
with conductor the day before the Mis-
whether his should Instead
of gracefully paying when called he had abused the
ductor who, maybe because there spotter sitting
compelled self
But in retaliation for the abuse the
ported to the conductor half fare in
thus annoyance
would haunt the traveller all the the
time travellers will study tact, forswear
penalties.
finishing the string Pull
sat down in the smoking of the last
hind end brakeman straighten his collections
headlight of the pusher threw yellow light
the continuous cut of it's fire
stack Pat Francis setting down hsaamp began sniff
Smell anything?" he asked presently OF
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