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"I I yes, I think so I mean, I think she's no better. They may be bringing his body!" said the other girl, her eyes fixed on the distant locomotive. "Oh!" almost screamed Eleanor, and stared wildly without words. A brakeman far down the track was flagging the locomotive; it came to a stop, and several men were seen climbing down from the cab.
Of course I'm not on the wrong train! You must be mistaken! The ticket agent told me to take this train." "Can't help that, sir, this train don't go to Lawrence." "It's very curious. I asked the brakeman, and two porters. Ain't this the 3.05?" "This is the 3.05." "Where does it go, then?" "Goes to Lowell. Lowell the first stop." "But I don't want to go to Lowell!" "What's the matter with Lowell?
She took a long look at Johnny, who was dressed even more carefully than if it were a pleasant Sunday. "This don't be your train, annyway," she answered, in a meditative tone. "How come you here now all so fine, I 'd like to know, riding in the cars like a lord; ain't you brakeman yet on old twinty-four?" "'Deed I am, Mrs. Ryan; you would n't be afther grudging a boy his day off? Where's Nora?"
He had considered many schemes for getting trace of her, among the most favored being that of finding the brakeman who stood on the end of the train that day among those who watched him ride and overtake it, and learning from him to what point her ticket read. That was the simplest plan.
The next moment the car door was pushed open, and Conductor Tobin, followed by Brakeman Joe, entered it. "Well, I'll be everlastingly blowed!" cried Conductor Tobin, using the very strongest form of his peculiar expression, as the light from his lantern fell on the strange tableau presented by the boy and horse. "If this doesn't beat all the stock-tending I ever heard of.
He was very tall, and had blacked his shoes well, and the black light from them seemed to him obtrusive, the more so because his feet were very large. He looked out of the window as the train left the station, and saw a very pretty little child with a fluff of yellow hair, carrying a big doll, climbing laboriously on a train on the other track, with the tender assistance of a brakeman.
In his endeavor to make himself as presentable as possible, he had washed and wiped his face so vigorously that it almost shone. And no sooner had he finished the task than the brakeman put his head in the door, and said: "All ready, kid? Mr. Perkins has sent for you." Going out into the car, Bob saw a negro clad in a suit of immaculate linen. "Is you Mr.
They kept up a brisk conversation, Albert speaking in a loud tone, for he was feeling very merry. "Ha, ha, ha! but I did think the old fool would hear the brakeman call the station, though. I didn't suppose I could get him any farther than the door. To think of his clambering clear out on the platform, and getting left! He believed every word I told him. What a delicious old simpleton!"
A brakeman of flashy attire, with fine leather showing to the knees, strolled off and up the platform on high heels, haughty as a prince. Confusion began to abate. "Hear it pant," said one, looking at the engine. "Seems so it had the heaves," another remarked thoughtfully. "Goes like the wind," said a passenger, who had just alighted. "Jerked us ten mile in less 'n twenty minutes."
The brakeman became president of a great railroad, but when he has to go across the continent in his special car, he dodges Kansas, and goes across by the northern or southern route. Pa has so far dodged the farmers, but money wouldn't have hired him to stay with the circus and meet those farmers that they sold the willow gold bricks to.
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