The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01

shovel or coal. I'll bet the whole
lot of you couldn't hit the door. If !
once got the chance, you'd see we dom
like this" cried Pete, and he picked
up an old shovel that stood alongside
the round house in which the waiting
engines were grooming and wheeling
and then went through some motions to
show how he would do were he fire
man.
You wouldn't stand that way at all
You've got the shovel left-handed. The
engineer would throw you out of the
engine If you stood on his side of the
cab. Let me show you how to do it, .
said good-natured but shrewd Andy
Simpson. The other boys knew he was
right and now began TO smoker at
Pete's mistake.
No you don't show me nothn'
What's the Diff when you're only
standin' on the ground, whether you
shovel right or left handed: Get away,
and don't you dare to take hold of that
shovel. Get away now, or I'll hit you
with it, and If | hit you once you ii
never know nothin' again."
With that Pete lifted up the shovel
and was about to bring it down on
the head Of Andy when around the en-
CINE shed came the foreman. He cast
glance at the t.Yo boys facing each
other in daring manner.
What's the matter here:" he asked
OF Pete
''Nothin'. nothln' at all. Ne asd
Andy's just beer dom a couple of
stunts with the shovel" was the false
reply from Pete.
The foreman turned around to go
away, but had taken only few steps
when he looked back and said
We'll. since you are both So anxious
to do some thing, you, Pete, may go
and call Berkeley. and Andy you may
come into my Office. as l have little
business for you TO attend to-
If Pete was angry before he was mad
enough to eat coal now. Engineer
Berkley's call was one Of the tough
est on the list, SO the boys said be-
cause he lived several miles from the
round house, and the caller who went
after him had no time TO waste in
order that Berkeley should reach his
engine in time TO take the train out on
the scheduled time. Then, too, Berk-
ley was rather grabbed with the BOYS,
and he seldom asked them to ride back
ON the street ears with him. As they
could not afford to pay their own way,
they were always pretty well ''peterej
OUT by the time they reached the
round house again. If Berkley did ar
rive late, then he usually put the blame
Oh the caller for not reporting to hin
"a time.
No sooner had the foreman disap-
peared from sight than Pete began to
give vent 10 his rage and spite by
snarling, clustering and boasting of
what he intended to do to Andy.
II pity Andy. He'd better have kept
his mouth shut. Simpson can look for
another job now," were some OF the ex-
pressions whispered by the boys among
themselves when they saw how angry
Pete was. They had not forgotten how
he had compelled a former call boy
named jim Wright TO give up his posi-
ton. simply because Jim refused to
make a call for him one cold, rainy
day, while he, Pete, sat in the round
house and listened to some engineers
relating hairbreadth escapes which
they had made. Already Pete had a
plan In mind whereby to get Andy into
trouble with the grabbed engineer, and
II the plan worked out all right Ii
would put an end to young Simpsons
being call boy or anything else
around those railroad yards.
With an ugly wink Peter started out
In the direction OF Berkley's house.
But as soon as he had gone up the
tracks a short distance, far enough TO
De out of sight of the round house and
the foreman. he slipped down between
several cars and waited for his enemy,
for Pete had made up his mind to
settle account with young Simpson be-
fore going to the engineers. He
guessed the foreman had a message on
which TO send Andy, but there he was
mistaken. 1t was, however, more than
a half an hour before he discovered
his mistake. and then only when one
OF the boys came along and told him
that the foreman had Andy at work In
his office, Pete was disappointed, and
he grltted his teeth fiercely as he de-
clared that he had another way TO get
even" Instead of going on hts call
he waited while longer between the
cars. so that 1t would appear that he
had performed his duty. Then he went
back to the office and hung around the
blackboard where were posted q list
Of the engineers and f1remen'S names,
with opposite each one Of them the
name OF the boy whose duty 1t was to
call him.
Engineer Berkely was due to leave
with his train at 80 In the evening.
BY that time the night foreman was
on duty and the day call boys had
gone home. 1t was within few min
utes OF his leaving time, and yet Berk-
ley did not come. The fireman was In
the engine pouring In the coal. and
the great iron machine was grooming
and heaving as If for want OF breath
because 1t was 50 full OF fuel. Seven
thirty came. but yet Berkley was nc
In sight. Some one must be sent o.
his run, and, OF course, the first en-
gineer who appeared for a later train
was sent out with Berkley's engine
Engineer Berkley did not appear al
the yards at all that night, and tn,
night foreman had taken down in his
memorandum book the name of the boy
who had been sent TO call him. Strange
TO say. that name was Andy Simpsons
The next evening Berkeley did not come
to take his engine out on the road
and again the name of Simpson wen