The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-23
.RIDIN' THE DECK
IS NO FOOLS JOB
The Hobo Tells OF His Experience on the
Top of a Pullman and Compares it to
a Jaunt in a FLYNN Machine "A
Funny feeIin'.
BUT NEVER NO MORE
By the Book Worm.

IL may Uo SOuio swell SENSATION
ter be soarin' erlong through the
air on one O. man-killin' flynn ma
chimes, an at times a Teller may get
up some speed, but if yer want ter
be DOM just one better than flynn
flynn machine, why sometime
when you've got few leisure mo-
ments ter yer self, an your sure no
official person is plkin' yel off, then
just spread yourself out on tn deck
O. one O. tn last ones, that are
clinkin'- TIL clinks over one of our
western trails. You'll prob'ly get
all tn sensations your lookin' fer
an erbout tn only difference be-
tween tn two is, that when your
skyin' it. your dodgin' motors, stars
an storm clouds; an when your
deckin' it, your dodgin' cinders, fly
mugs an smoke clouds. So yer
kin easily see that ones as bad as
other as fer as sensation goes.
Some boes'll say that they'd soon
err ride tn echo on tn whistle than
crawl on-ter an CP Pullman Deck,
an perhaps they'r right. But when
a young, new beginner-a gay
Cal" as they calls 'em-is just learn
in tn ropes, he amt so partic'ler as
ter where he's doin' his ridin' an
at times he'll put his self inter an
awful uncomfortable fix. He Amt
got ter tn point where one towns
as good as tn next ter him, an if
we don't move ter day, we'll move
ter morrow idea, he's always think
in he has ter be movin' then, an
he'll sure move regardless o tn
movin' conditions.
That's erbout tn way twas with
me, hadn't got to the point where
l could call myself hard boil" er
a blown in tn glass stiff as tn real
post graduate hoes err called: l
was only beginner, a kid. Per-
haps that's why l was dodgin' cind-
ers, fy-mugs an smoke clouds that
night, an ter boot one of the punk
est conditions of tn elements that
ever slipped down out o tn Big
Horn range, ter cool off those Wy
oming praires after a twelve hour
siege with OF Sol.
No. forty-two, coming east on tn
B. & M. were erbout forty minutes
in maxim tn run from Billings
to Sheridan. She just had time ter
sorter hesitate an change engines
befor she were pullin' out ergain'
with yours truly on tn blind.
Now, l wouldn't confess that l
was afraid ter do any work those
days. cause | hadn't learned that
it's ergainst all rules, bylaws an
principles of hobos, ter do any
work, so when the gink with tn
shovel comes pilein' over tn tend
er an tells me ter get busy an fall
ter passin' coal. l just falls ter it
like an OF horse falls ter his oats. /
must passed down couple a
thousand tons. and travelled erbout
that many miles when l begin ter
get the Funniest feelin' round in the
vicinity o my spinal colum, so |
slams down mister shovel an makes
a few uncomfortable remarks con-
cerrin' mister fireman an his per-
petual coal consumer,-as | would
call it--and climbs up on tn deck
ah' begins crawlin'.
Up on the Roof.
Now yous'll have ter admit that
when a trains goin' down grade an
tn nights erbout as black as. we'll,
as black as black kin be, with tn
rain comm down in buckets full
maxim tn roof nice and slippery.
an ter say nothin' of sixty mile
gale full o. cinders an coal smoke
hittin' yer in tn rear, that an OF
boys got ter be some kind O. a tight
rope walker ter keep his equili-
brium. My coat seemed ter have
a regular mania ter loop-th'- loop
over my head, even though / did
have four clothes pin. a couple a
hinges an fifteen er so safety pins
trying ter keep it down. My hat.
er what I knew then was not my
hat, had left me as soon as | left
tn tender, so yer kin see that l was
kinder up erginst real joy-ride.
/ manages ter kinder crawl. fall.
an let myself be blown erlong over
tn roofs o. five er six cars, an then
/ cramps down on ter tn top of one
O. them Gordon pleated vestibu]e
connections where / could sorter
make inventory o. my personal