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The bag a small black Gladstone was aboard in charge of the baggageman. I had no great difficulty in getting it from my friend, the station agent. Had he not seen me herding the locoed stranger? I secreted the black bag with the five full bottles of soothing syrup, slipped the half-emptied bottle in my pocket, and returned to the hotel.
Since mongrel dogs were cheap, it was cheaper to replace them when they died than so to care for them as to keep them from dying. What the baggageman did not know, and what Peterson did know, was that of these thirty-five dogs not one was a surviving original of the troupe when it first started out four years before. Nor had there been any originals discarded.
The cussed little black things was all alike, and they bothered me. 'Telegraph, suggested the switchman. 'Never you mind, replied the baggageman. 'They was all going to Philadelfy. They'll find it out when they get there. They did. The scene shifts to the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia. Front parlor, up stairs.
When the railroad came in, Henry got a job as assistant baggageman. The conductorship was in sight twenty years away, but promised positively by a kind relative when something else appeared on the horizon, and a good job was exchanged for a better one. An enterprising Boston man had established a chain of grocery-stores along the coast, and was monopolizing the business or bidding fair to do so.
"Oh, the baggageman knows us," explained Bob, "and he gave us our checks and kept the duplicates to put on our trunks when they came down to the station. He often does that." "Yes," said Bumble, "we've never had our trunks ready yet when the man came for them." "Nan's was ready," put in Bob, who was a great stickler for justice, "but, of course, hers couldn't go till ours did.
Nachrally they can't tear off very far or they wudden't hear th' whistle whin it blew to call thim back. F'r a week or two they spind their avenin's larnin' th' profissyon iv baggageman, atin' off thrunks be day an sleepin' on thim be night.
The baggageman watched her, hypnotized with curiosity and wonder. At the next station he helped her to drop through the opening she had entered, and called a shamefaced "good-by" after her in the dusk. She hunted up the station-agent and received scanty encouragement: Very likely he had seen such a man; there were many of that description getting off every day.
Philadelphia! cried a stout, military-looking man, with enormous whiskers and a red face, crowding forward, as the baggageman laid his hand on the first bag. 'Won't you please to give me a check for this, now? entreated a pale, slender, carefully-dressed young man, for the ninth time, holding out bag No. 2. 'I have a lady to look after.
She smiled grimly. "Faith! I have a notion I like brakemen and baggagemen better than conductors." And so it came to pass as the train started that the baggageman, who happened to be standing in the doorway, was somewhat startled to see a small figure come racing toward it out of the dusk and land sprawling on the floor beside him.
'Whoo-whew! responded the locomotive; and the train moved slowly out of the station-house. The baggageman meditatively watched it, as it sped away in the distance, and then, as if a thought suddenly struck him, slapping his thigh, he exclaimed, 'Blest if I don't believe 'What? inquired the switchman. 'That I've gone and guv them three last fellers the wrong checks!
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