New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-19
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOX APRIL AZ ''i7

bunch Of holes they made in the side OF the fireman
coat Vos il was terrible gantlet; but think ran II
vlinqv-I had come to believe that it was square lot
me to do it. And yet dreaded, for my lddle SAKE
the time when the mountain woman found Out why 90
was missing her target.
Ell, one morning on the return trip, when we were
on siding at whisting station up close to the footH'
an old man, plainly a mountaneer, came up to my Ell,
cine and rapped on the side of the cab with his crooKed
dogwood cane. | looked out and down.
"'Good mornin'' he said. Fine mormn, ham II;
@'Fine, replied as cordially as ! could
az want to 90 to town., smiled the grayhead' MS OH
ewes twinkling queery, and | hain't got no money
How aho,t Won letin me ride up thar in that thar
ingine,
i owed the mountain people a heavy debt; but II
was very much against the rules Of the road to allow
passenger TO ride in the cab Go back and tell the
conductor said to please take you in the caooose'
told him. ..
81 don't want to ride in burned caboose, replied
the mountaneer I've always wanted to ride IN IN
CINE and not burned mother thing is goin to satisfy
me- Don't YOU think, Mr. Ingine Man, that you could
give in lest wns TO a pore old teller like me- And his
eyes continued to twinkle quecry.
"A sudden impulse twisted my tongue. Climb up,
I invited, and III try to take you through.
81 had TO help him into the cab; for he was feeble
and broken man. | also assisted him into the seat on
the fireman's side muttering a sort Of an apology to
Jimmy Alulhavon. When | was about TO turn away the
old man Of the hills caught me by arm and pulled
me back.
AZ want to talk to YOU jest a minute he said.
81 bent an ear to listen for felt that he had some
thing to tell me that was Of no little importance-and
| was right.
"'Ar. Ingine Man. began my visitor, seeming very
earnest you've saved yoe life by this here leete kind
ness to me- I've always wanted to ride in a ingine.
III own up that hated ngines after that thar happenn
two weeks ago in the mountains up thar; but then
ggcrcd that it wasn't the ngines fault, and then the
old hankcrin come back But to git at what I'm drvin
att I've been a vatchin Lassiter Boands wilder shoot
at YOU for the last weeks, and acause you never hid
like a burned coward commenced thinkin' that you
might be all right and | decided that I'd tell you
somehn' if YOU'D L. ride in this here ngine. Well,
you'd shore better make this yore last rum acause II you
90 out tomorrow You'll shore come back corpst.
Accuse Salc Boland She told that she believed that
she was a missin on count O the inginc rnnin'; and
she said if she didn't git YOU this mornn She was goin
to knock her hind sight jest lcetle down the country
so the woman is a widow, | said-and was speak
ing altogether to myself
"Yes and the lcetle cyril was all she had. She haint
got no relations woth talkn about neither. And, say,
Mr. Ingine Man, Sally Boland She shore a fool
about that thar Young TN o hern To Sally the sun
it rose and set in the ccte chap The baby it'd got up
out o bed in its night coc and foered its nav, who'd