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He saw some snow that had sifted through the station roof and he was so thirsty that he began to lick it up. When the snow was all gone, he jumped up and licked the frost on the windows. Mr. Drury's friend was so angry. He found the baggage-master, and said to him: "What did you mean, by coming into my car every few hours, to tell me that the dog was fed, and watered, and comfortable?
Basil would have eked out the business of checking the trunks into an affair of some length, but the baggage-master did his duty with pitiless celerity; and so Basil, in the mere excess of his disoccupation, bought an accident-insurance ticket.
"And if you don't let me stand here and give my frank, unbiased opinion of this road, its president, board of directors, stockholders, baggage-men, Pullman porters, and other things thereto appertaining, I'll probably have hysterics." "Give it," said the baggage-master." You'll feel better. And we're used to it." She gave it. When she had finished: "Did you say you was selling goods on the road?
We paid quite freely for our brief monopoly of the railroad to the superintendent, engineer, stoker, poker, switch-tender, brakeman, baggage-master, and every other official in one.
"Can't tell," said the surly baggage-master. "Nothing is certain to railroad men." "Except one thing," said Mr. Mapleson. "What's that?" said the surly baggage-master. "Death," said Mr. Mapleson. "That's a fact," said the surly baggage-master. "Specially certain to railroad men." "And there is one other thing certain," added Maurice. "What's that?" asked the baggage-master, no longer surly.
I don't trouble myself about ways and means." The week after Mr. Mapleson came to Wheathedge, some ecclesiastical body met at Albany. I had a case before the Court of Appeals, and Maurice and I happened to take the same train. As we waited in the station he addressed himself to a surly looking baggage-master with this question, "What time will the train get to Albany?"
Basil would have eked out the business of checking the trunks into an affair of some length, but the baggage-master did his duty with pitiless celerity; and so Basil, in the mere excess of his disoccupation, bought an accident-insurance ticket.
My commanding officer frequently said that, if he lived and commanded twenty armies, I should be his baggage-master. In two days we arrived under the town and fort of Hedjeeghur, a strong hill fort, that had been recently taken by the Honourable Company's army.
The youth who discharged the multifarious duties of Postmaster, passenger, freight and express-agent, baggage-master, and telegraph operator at Sumpunkins Station laboriously spelled out the dots and dashes on the paper strip in the instrument.
"Crash!" said Emma McChesney to the surprised baggage-master. "There goes my Haviland vegetable-dish." "Were you selling china?" he inquired. "No, I wasn't," replied Emma McChesney viciously.
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