The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-09
FOR
| HIS RAILROAD TRAIN
An Appafition Which Puzzled the
Fat Engineer and Left Him
Feeling Foolish.

sThe shades OF night were fa!lin' fast,
n the faster they fell, the faster I made
the old mogawl go, that evenin'," said the
fat engineer. Il was haulin' a wild west
show on its way to the coast n was lookin'
for somethin' to happen, for never knsw
II TO fail that when went out with ono OF
them tented aggregations for the separa-
ton Of the fool n his money that some
thin didn't break loose.
Connected with the show was bunch
Of Crow Indians, or some other kind OF old
Indians. They were all right as long as
they stayed on the water wagon, but If
any OF EN- lost q feather out OF their head
gear n had to get down n get it they could
run 90 fast It was a long time before the
sprinkin' cart could overtake 'em.
Il was shakin' the train UP pretty lively
IN order TO make connection for the show
at q junction. A couple Of times while
lookin' ahead I thought I'd seen the
shadow Of q man runnin ahead Of the loco
motive, but as it was CROWN dusk put 1t
down as bein' caused by the trees n wayin'
corn on the hoof alongside the track. But
a. It grew darker n my headlight shone
out with more briIlance ahead, 1 glanced
along the rails. Sure enough, I saw . man
runnin' up the track ahead Of me, 80 sure
that alapped on the air n shut nay eyes
sxpectin' to hit him.
I'VE stopped, and searched arouu' but
We couldn't find any man or dead body.
So I started EN- again. not Without mis-
sTd no more'n got started when my
pacsmaker made his appearance. He Ger
tatnly could run, whatever he was, spirit
or not. As the headlight burned brighter
IN the darkness n shone along the choo-choo
pathway made out that he Yves an Indian.
We come 30 close to him sometimes that
nurely thought we'd crash into him. but
every time he'd wiEgle out Of It.
well, I'd heard lots about Indizns bein'
fsst ruuners, but l never imagined that
one Of EN- could set the pace for ma.
duckin IN n out that made up my mind
to stop n git the manager Of the show
n hsve him call the red man OH
* went back n found the MANA gsr.
He wus fat faced Teller with enough dia-
up two or three baseball league circuins.
I rust told him that one Of bis hdianB had
been battin' out some high ones n was
tryin' to act a. pacemker for the train.
-Umph he says I . don't blame , him
a darn s %ng could iSn sss psoe fon
this train. Seems as il we'd been on the
road ever since the clouds gathered for
Jup Pluviuss star engagement when Noah
ddastepped TO the ark. BUT FL 60 ahmg
with you n look him up
wen, be came along with us NJ we
looked high n low roun' the tracks, but
there was nothin' dnin' on the redshin.
Pretty soon the main guy OF the show got
aroun' up close to the headlight n my,
you ought to ha' heard him sweari His re
marks reduced to be printable would be
IKE proposed railroad On q map of China.
Here's your blankety blank blank
Indian he says. Now COME afung n
move outer here
YOU see the engine had, which was
strange one to me- had figure Of an Indian
ON a staff right on top Of the headlight; In
startin' suddenly the Indian became loos-
ened n slid down right over the reflector
Of the headlight. When the engine was
goin' fast the figure would swing back n
forth In front Of the light m throw a
shadow OF an Indian runnin' On the rack
IN front Of US. Well. say, II man ever
felt cheap, 1 did,