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Updated: May 9, 2025
We couldn't stay on the boat, there was nothin' to do in Havaner, so we gave up. And by and by we left the boat, saying good-by to the captain, and went with John over into town, and down to the court house to get his team to go home. John went to the rack to untie his horses and Mitch and me was standin' off waitin' to get in the wagon.
You see he warn't tried at Havaner, but down at Beardstown, and the only time I went thar was when I went to see Duff with my mother, while Duff was thar in jail." "Did you see him?" asked Mitch. He was sottin' thar, him and another feller. Thar they was in jail. "How long was Duff in jail?" asked Mitch. I don't recollect; and then they had the trial and Linkern cleared him with a almanac."
And here the conductor saw us for the first time. He started to come up in the cupola and the first thing he says was, "Fares, please." "How much?" says I. "Where you goin'?" says he. "To Havaner," I says. "Where did you get on?" "At Atterberry," I says. I began to look for Willie Wallace, but he warn't anywhere around. Then the conductor says, "One dollar."
I pulled a dollar out and handed it to him. Then he turned to Mitch and says, "You goin' to Havaner, too?" Mitch says, "Yes, sir." "One dollar, please," says the conductor. Mitch didn't have it he only had 80 cents. So I gave my other dollar to the conductor, and he climbed into the cupola and stayed a bit and then climbed down and went away sommers. Mitch says, "Well, that about cleans us out.
What do you suppose, when we got to Atterberry, there was Willie Wallace in charge of a freight train which had side-tracked for the passenger goin' to Havaner. You can't imagine how funny it seemed to see him talkin' to the conductor and everything; and how funny it seemed that I knowed him so well, since I had seen him plow and drive a team and all that on the farm.
"Look here, Willie, this here conductor hit us for two dollars, a dollar apiece for our fare to Havaner." "No," says Willie. "Honest, didn't he, Mitch?" Mitch said, "Yep." "Well, he must be foolin'," says Willie, "for the fare is only 60 cents from Atterberry, and you'd go half fare at 30 cents." Mitch says, "I've heard about conductors knockin' down, and this looks like it to me.
So I was afraid and I began to edge. Says I: "What time does that train get to Petersburg, Willie?" "About an hour from here," says he. "Where does it come from?" "Peoria." "Does it come through Havaner?" "Why, of course it does; why?" "Because," says I, "I thought I saw a friend of my pa's standin' on the back platform." "Who?" says Willie.
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