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Updated: June 17, 2025
I remember having heard both sides of a case argued before an eminent Federal Judge. One of the lawyers made a long, turgid, "profound" and musty argument; proceeding like a draft-horse from mile-post to mile-post, until the alert mind of the judge was almost frantic with impatience. The lawyer on the other side is one of the most eminent members of our profession.
This lamb was five feet high and three feet round, and she looked like a mile-post, dressed in striped calico, without a belt. The perfumer, lost in thought, was ruminating as he went along the Rue Saint-Honore about his duel with Macassar Oil. He was meditating on the labels and the shape of the bottles, discussing the quality of the corks, the color of the placards.
Now, men, aim low, and don't waste any shots." He and Sinclair climbed over the tender and spoke to the engine-driver. "How are the air-brakes working?" asked Sinclair. "First-rate." "Then, if you slow down now, you could stop the train in a third of her length, couldn't you?" "Easy, if you don't mind being shaken up a bit." "That is good. How is the country about the xth mile-post?"
To the Station Agent: "Reported Perry gang will try wreck and rob No. 17 near xth mile-post. Denver Division, about nine Thursday night Troops will await train at Fort . Car ordered ready for them. Keep everything secret, and act in accordance with orders of Mr. Sinclair." "It's worth about ten thousand dollars," sententiously remarked he, "that Sinclair's on that train.
Over yonder, where the mile-post of the old lane still stands, in its unhonored old age become the vehicle of publishing the latest "sure cure" to the world, a florist, whose undenominational zeal for the holiday and trade outstrips alike distinction of creed and property, has transformed the sidewalk and the ugly railroad structure into a veritable bower, spanning it with a canopy of green, under which dwell with him, in neighborly good-will, the Young Men's Christian Association and the Jewish tailor next door.
And 'tis not me either that cares to show my learning before people who are unable to tell a mile-post from a church-tower." "I be awaiting," said Jem Bottles with a new meekness apparently born of respect for Paddy's eloquence. "Well, then," said Paddy, pained at these interruptions.
And as dawn now revealed the gray country to him, his eye fell casually upon a mile-post: "Omaha, 876." He began to watch for them: 877, 878. But the trunk would really get to Omaha. "What are yu' laughin' about?" asked Honey. "Oh, the wheels." "Wheels?" "Don't yu' hear 'em?" said Lin. "'Variety, they keep a-sayin'. 'Variety, variety." "Huh!" said Honey, with scorn.
Already it had come to stand for the weak man's ultimate mile-post, the end of many journeys. The approach from the sea was easy, if twelve miles of boulder and bog, of swamp and nigger-head, of root and stump, can be called easy under the best of circumstances; but easy it was as compared with what lay beyond and above it.
And then, his heart of a parent having wakened to the situation, he forgot her and forsook her. He pulled a time-table from his pocket; he consulted a mile-post, which had had the good sense to stop opposite the end of the car from which he had alighted. It was forty miles to Carcasonne and only two to Grub City a lovely city of the plain, consisting of one corrugated-iron saloon.
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