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Updated: May 1, 2025
On the morning of the fourth day, Miss Georgie woke with the vague sense that something had gone wrong. True railroader as she had come to be, she thought first that there had been a wreck, and that she was wanted at the telegraph instrument. She was up and partly dressed before the steps and the voices which had broken her sleep had reached her door.
The crowd, the rustic and ruder part of it, cheered and cheered till the mountain echoes answered; then a railroader called for three times three, with a tiger, and got it. The guests of the hotel broke away and went toward the house over the long shadows of the meadow. The lower classes pressed forward, on Camp's invitation. "Well, did you ever hear a more disgusting rigmarole?" asked Mrs.
He's on the bum now. 'Tis a little bughouse he is, on account of losin' his job. "'Carrambos! says the general, fizzin' like a little soda-water fountain, 'you fought, senor, with my forces in my native country. Why do you say the lies? You shall say I am the General De Vega, one soldier, one caballero "'Railroader, says I again. 'On the hog. No good.
The school at that place is filled with mothers, fathers, daughters and children. Noble Acts of Heroism. Edward Dick, a young railroader living in the place, saw an old man floating down the river on a tree trunk whose agonized face and streaming gray hair excited his compassion. He plunged into the torrent, clothes and all, and brought the old man safely ashore.
"Next time I give that lazy, good-for-nothing Lem Wacker work he'll know it, I'm thinking! Look there and there!" The irate old railroader kicked over the wooden cuspidor in disgust. It was loaded to the top with tobacco and cigarette ends. Then he cast out half a dozen empty bottles through the open window, and went on with his grumbling.
Well, you never had sense," remarked Mary, turning away indignantly. Thus roused, the railroader repeated: "Sure, an' ye could. A feather'd do it, an' easy. But sit down, woman. Sit down as I bid ye, an' hear the most wonderful, marvelous tale a body ever heard this side old Ireland.
At half-past eight this morning an old railroader who had walked from Sang Hollow stepped up to a number of men who were congregated on the platform stations at Curranville and said: "Gentlemen, had I a shotgun with me half an hour ago I would now be a murderer, yet with no fear of ever having to suffer for my crime.
That was what bothered poor old Steve Hollis when he was handin' in his checks 't least it was th' same general sort of idea. I guess you never knew Steve, did you, Rayburn? He was an old railroader had been a-workin' on th' Old Colony one way and another for more'n twenty years.
The auctioneer was offering a "solid gold, Swiss movement, eighteen jeweled watch" to the highest bidder. "This watch belongs to my friend Joe Coupling," he said, "a brakeman on the B. & O. He was in a wreck and is now in the hospital. Everybody knows that one of the best things a railroader has is his watch. He only parts with it as a matter of life and death.
Lemuel adored his "Boss" but he had not learned the manners which that "Boss" would have approved in the presence of the Gray Lady; who, by the way, was never more truly the "Lady" than in her intercourse then, and always, with the toilers at San Leon. "Well, sir, Ma'am, I mean 'twas really a deed o' gift. There was another railroader, rich once, done somethin' he hadn't ought to.
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