The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-08-10

CIV fine i layout ,H1' say.
to- Hank simms. in the next bunk
How under the canopy do they ex
pect a man to sleep, buildin' bunk
shanty right near sawmilie'
Sawmill nothln'! says Hank
That's Jerry Day. the new hagmaI
for Archie Dunn snofin oyer In the
trainmen's bunk room, Amt he a
pippin?' ''"", tF''3
?" If that anti-noise society gets hel
to him. says, 1hey1r hotfoot him ON
OF this community instanter
There was no more Sleep for us
that afternoon. so we got up. and sal
In hot game OF pinoehle
| Jerry Day was first out with
Archie Dunn that evenin' ON the first
| 10 n was second out on second 10
freight runntn SO heavy them days
| that they We're runnin' the fast
| freights In two or three sections.
when it came time for us to leave
the freight yards the fog was so thick
you couldn't shoot holes into II with
a machine gun. tell you | was
mighty cautious goin' over the Jersey
meadows. moym along on only about
two hotches OF steam on the throttle.
Pretty soon on the heavy air |
heard a sawmill goin' full blast
Strange says to myself, that
they're runnin "a sswmill In these
parts this time Of the night
There was peculiar sound to that
sawmill that I'D heard r before.
All OF sudden it came over me like
fash what 1t was. That's that green
flagman of Archie Dunn's, Ii came TO
me; hes just hidin' his red lantern
under bushel of snores while his
train Is stalled a..-. n
$50 quiekelsn dsaf n dpmh man
can say Jack Robinson goa my en-
CINE in back motion. couldnt see
a thingI but from the. souhd.o o. that
foghorn ahead we'd stopped about a
9asat6spose length Oils side 81 that warn
in' snoPe n. ~ Eff / y'4t
1.-THE fog shifted for minute n
there was the tail lights of Archie
Dunn's caboose almost restin on the
nose of my cowcatcher. II was Ga
lucky thing for me that | had recog
nized the deep snore of that fiagman
"Mebbe | didn't climb onto that ca
boose Pm give that new hand brief
m pointed' speech on the rules n reg
ulations of sleepin on duty. especial
ly dwellin' on the necessity of the flag
man totin his red n white lights II
telegraph poles back When his train
stopped on the main track.
"A week or so after that was sec
ond out again behind Archie Dunn.
An 1t was just such foggy night as
the one;I was speakin' OF before. Sher-
lock Holmes himself cohldnt pene-
trate the density of that Jersey mead
ow mist. Ns'
II WAS movin' along again under
two speeds forward, keepln nay wealth
er goggles trimmed for trouble ahead.
Just as sure as you're born over the
meadows there came 10 me again that
20 sawmill power snbre OF Archie
Dunn's rear guard. So says to my
self. My little heart-to-heart talk with
that fiagman bore no fruit, en-? Well.
I'll just give him little bump this
time n see what little scare will do
for him
You can Just imagine ! was pref.
ty warm under the collar, comm up
on that Teller snoozin' on the breast
works twice In two weeks I kept
gettin' closer N closer TO the snore,
but there didn't come along any hind
end for me to bump into
Il got little scared myself then,
thinkin mebbe might hit EN- too
hard, so sot up in the air m We
swung TO under the lee of that warn
in snore. Well now, mebhe / hadn't
made up my mind to write mp a round
robin on that careless fiagrnan OF
Archie Dunn's. .Hro. ~ ~.
I'VE laid there few minutes. with
that feller snorin, me iswin' 70 my.
self N mebbe envytn' him just a lit
tie OF his sound sleep, when all a,
once the fog cleared away as II It had
been sent for. You could have bowled
me over with toothpick, Scan that
track ahead of me as far as I could
see straight across the meadows
could detect no tail lights Of a train
ahead. But OF to. the right in the
fields was really n truly sawmill
merrily on the works which was prob.
ably workin' overtime on some little
extra job.
Now. say, mebbe ! didn't feel as
cheap as pair of ice skates In the
summer time. | nearly got laid on for
ten days myself for delayln' that fast
freight However. can truly say
mat have never been so fooled be
fore or since"