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"When I get back the old gazink is still workin' on Peewee, but all of a sudden he stops 'n' listens. "'Pit-too-ee there's your car, boys! he says, 'n' then I begins to hear a groanin' sound. "Man! they ain't no way to tell you about that street-car! She falls to pieces only they wraps all the upper parts together with wire till she looks like a birdcage.
'I'll go out 'n' get my friend. "'Be they two of ye? says he. 'Jeerusalem, I told Orphy they wa'n't but one. "When I gets back with Peewee, the old gazink pushes a couple of chairs at us. "'Set right down, boys, he says, ''n' make yourselves mis'able. Then he puts a chew in his face that would choke a he-elephant 'n' begins to ask us questions.
"Me and Peewee stands a-waitin' fur the street-car fur thirty minutes, then I goes into the freight depot office. "'Is the street-car runnin'? I says to the old gazink at the desk. "'Ye can't rightly call it runnin', he says. 'It ain't been settled yet. Some claims she dun't, some claims she do. Them that claims she dun't is those who've rid on her.
'Say, Orphy, this is Ed at the B. & O. Freight, says the old gazink. 'I got a passenger down here fer ye. Then he listens at the phone. 'I don't know who he is. He's a stranger tu me, he says, 'n' listens some more. 'All right, I'll tell him, he says, 'n' hangs up the phone. "'Orphy says fer me to tell ye thet he's comin' in to get Mrs.
"'Well, whatever she does, I says, 'will she get here this mawnin'? I got to get to the race track. "'I'll call up Orphy an' see, says the old gazink. 'Hello, Tessie, he says, after he grinds away at the telephone handle fur a while. 'Git a-holt of Orphy Shanner fer me out to th' park that's a good girl. In about ten minutes somebody begins to talk over the phone.
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