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Updated: May 28, 2025
The man sprang for his throat, but Buck was too quick for him. His jaws closed on the hand, nor did they relax till his senses were choked out of him once more. "Yep, has fits," the man said, hiding his mangled hand from the baggageman, who had been attracted by the sounds of struggle. "I'm takin' 'm up for the boss to 'Frisco. A crack dog-doctor there thinks that he can cure 'm."
It was a confused yelping, howling, and barking of many dogs. "Holy Smoke! It's them damned acting dogs," growled the baggageman to his mate. "There ought to be a law against dog-acts. It ain't decent." "It's Peterson's Troupe," said the other. "I was on when they come in last week.
Some howled, some whimpered, others growled and raged at one another through the slots, and many maintained a silence of misery. Several licked and nursed bruised feet. Smaller dogs that did not fight much were crammed two or more into single crates. Half a dozen greyhounds were crammed into larger crates that were anything save large enough. "Them's the high-jumpers," said the first baggageman.
Hearing that the express train went out Sunday afternoon, I decided to go, so as to have all day at Mt. Vernon before speaking; but on getting my trunk checked, the baggageman said the train did not stop there. "Well," said I, "check the trunk to the nearest point at which it does stop," resolving that I would persuade the conductor to stop one minute, anyway.
The Judge carefully shut and locked his door. He was a church member in good standing and an unmarried man, so had to lock the girl out or perhaps thought it best to lock himself in. One never knows! The porter appeared with his suit case in his hand and perturbation in his soul, the double burden sufficing to render him serious. "The baggageman says your sample trunks ain't come.
"Dear old boy!" thought the young woman affectionately; "what should I do without him?" That afternoon, just before the supper hour, the boarder's trunk arrived. It was borne upstairs by the village baggageman, complaining bitterly of its weight. It was an aristocratic-looking trunk, and it bore labels which indicated that it was a traveled trunk.
I don't know why it is, but I always seem to expect the next one I ask to tell me something different about a train; and then everybody you meet seems just as pleasant as can be." "Yes," assented Lucy Eastman, "like that baggageman. Did you notice how polite the baggageman was?" "Notice it! Why, of course I did.
Fred said that was his idea, and he was just going for the ax when the brakeman moved the water barrel, tipped over the parrot cage, and the parrot shook himself and looked mad and said. "There, butterfingers! Polly wants a cracker." Cornes had just come up with the axe, and was about to tell the brakeman to chop the box, when the parrot spoke. "Well, by ," said the baggageman.
But what the baggageman did not know was that in the towns the hell was not mitigated, that the dogs were still confined in their too-narrow prisons, that, in fact, they were life-prisoners. Rarely, except for their acts, were they taken out from their cages. From a business standpoint, good care did not pay.
A shot, however, would have been fatal to his part in the plans and was only a last resort for it would have brought the trainmen. Finally Bailey rolled his man over and getting his right arm free, dealt the baggageman a fierce blow with the butt of the gun. The train was now pulling slowly up the grade.
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