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The get-away was good, but at the eastern yard limits we lost again. The people from the Pullmans piled into the café car and overflowed into the library and parlor cars. The restless traveller snapped his watch again, caught the sleeve of a passing trainman, and asked "'S matter?" and the conductor answered, "Waiting for No. 5."
Child taken poison and must have a doctor." A breathless gabble of voices assured him that there was no physician in the coach. He had already searched the other cars. There was no doctor on the train. "And we're stalled here in this cut for nobody knows how long!" groaned the conductor. "That woman is crazy in the next car.
He had been caught by the storm and, as he said, the abandoned coach must be near his claim, he asked to be taken along because he was afraid his children would be freezing to death. The men stopped and surveyed the sleeping boys and girl. Their glances ranged from the children to the bulging stockings and the pile of Christmas presents in the racks. "Well, can you beat that?" said the conductor.
I court inquiry into my character and conduct." "It is no use saying any more about it," answered the landlord; "here is Boots with a constable, and let us all go away together to the nearest magistrate. Boots, carry that trunk. John and Sally, you can follow us." And so the party, trunk and all, under the constable as conductor, adjourned to the house of a magistrate in an adjacent street.
That 'Now then, stoopid! of the 'bus conductor pales beside the lightnings of his scorn. 'Among the lovers of sensation, it is possible that some persons may be found with tastes so utterly vitiated as to derive pleasure from this monstrous production. I cull these flowers of speech from a wreath placed by a critic of the Slasher on my own early brow. Ye gods, how I hated him!
Spirits were fired by a spark sent from one pond to another with no conductor but the water of a stream. The fowls for dinner were slain by electrical shocks and cooked over a fire kindled by a current from an electrical bottle. At the table the success of America was toasted in electrified bumpers with an accompaniment of guns fired by an electrical battery.
At first Bob had protested, but the vice-president silenced him by saying that the service he had rendered the railroad was worth much more than the clothes. Dinner and theatre were one whirl of pleasure to the boy. And after he had been put in care of the conductor of the limited, had bidden good-bye to Mr.
"Why," Bissell asked, "boys, why do you ask for that now?" After a rather embarrassing pause the oldest conductor said: "Mr. Bissell, you have been a conductor yourself." This half century and six years during which I have been in the service of the New York Central Railroad has been a time of unusual pleasure and remarkably free from friction or trouble.
By this means the current passes from the wire down the conductor connected with the trolley pole, thence through the motors placed below the body of the car, and from them, through the track or ground-return, back to the power station. A small portion of the current is employed for lighting the electric lamps in the car. In some systems an underground trolley is employed.
She's some worrited, 'cause Celia went over to visit Peleg's gal airly yesterday mornin' an' we ain't seen Celia since." Mr. Carter came back with one of the brakemen just then, bearing a can of milk. The kindly conductor had found a tin plate, too a section of the fireman's dinner kettle and into this he poured some of the milk for the hungry little spaniel.
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