The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-11-17
HAY
TAKES A TRIP.


Bristol Courier.
o. have always had a desire 60 travel, and |
my p.rents used TO make me travel A
man never gets over the impulses OF h's
youth. bought return ticket ior felt
that I could At least hnd the way back
home With the tail of a round trip ticket
got on the slecpingcar, as that T. the
hest place 20 ride Il sou don't care to
sleep. The porter who owned the car
was in told me that my ticket called for
one upner. I didn't know the difference,
hut soon f-und out know What Il
hadn't been In bed mere than ten minutes
when noticed that had forgot TO take
/ of NV shoes. srd Weighing two hundred
pounds I couldn't figure out how ] was GO
ing TO get the -hocs on without getting
out. ] pokod ms bead out aud some dutn
fellow had stole m, ladder. rolled my q
self up a. neatly a. could aud grahhed
one foot II reminded me Of the baby
itrsins TO swanow his big toe. didn't
keen the same position more than two
minutes at a time. suddenly the train
gave jerk aud landed me on the door
knew We were in wreck aud bcgaa &
veil Tor help ! walked everybody in ih'
car except the conductor. I don't thinl
there has ever been panic this side o
. Wall street equal TO this. 0ne motheri
: old lady tainted and people tramped owe
4 me like the fag end Of retreating arm,
9 Things got quiet amer awhile and got m
things together aud went out into IN
y smoker. But the next morning there Wa
more trouble waiting for me in the dinin
room. ordered muttoE chops aud stea
aud eggs aud cnhee-but didn't =
much OF it. The waiter put it on the tai'i
all right, but Immediately thereafter Oh
train struck a curve. A lady across "a
isle got my steak. the mutton chops wei
Il out the wiudow aud my coffee and ege
scrambled over the fellow who sat
- front 1 hardly had time to know VIII
had happened before another change
z the road he'd brought me Shole plate
little neck clans It's a wonderful 81
ten, though, that OF eating on the trai
, Iis the only place that have ever stru'
where vos don't have TO pay for what "
get You can never tell exactly what y
will get Il depends upon the engine
aud the bends in the road never Sc
the table on the train now till everybo'
:" else has ordered, aud select place O
~ posite somebody Who has Rbou. what
al like aud know il will he only ques,i
A. OF time tiil get it.
When got 10 the city for which "
u" labeled vent to hotel aud told {
IS, landlord that I wanted lodging. good .
OF cheap He said the hishter yOa 20
N lover IL is. I sarpose be meant by a
Z that the cellar vas in the garrett, but
~ wouldn't argue with hotel clerk and
lr. took the elevator aud rode clean out
Of sight had a room where ] could vi
the English sParrows cut OF the caves.
\ vas large euough for me TO set my grip
~ after got cat. When got down on
re- street saw a sign in window wh
read. Take me home for one nine
eight" just thought ! would be viii
70 20 for heap less than that. gaes
Nv looked Lonesome, Tor a fellow came up
co, me aud began to talk. | asked him Nh
DR. be was raised aud he said he bad be
lie raised ia every town he had heeK 10
she last six mouths. He wanted 10 81
a me the sights but | let hiw kno~ thai
m had heard of him before. He looked M
oal like a preacher than any stranger ! e
;yfe saw. bat he vas an~awtal man ] =
him 20 into a saloon. when vent b.
10 my hotel they had moved IL sod u q
me about two hears 20 kne IT, fheg I
:. down aud haild up mighty fast ia u
cities. When foand u ielt like
ling geiiow ehe followed the tense all 81
no ~hcn he vas drank When be walked
no the next morning be found that be
HIbccn stalking around monument.
and TIMOTHY hA,
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