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"I've kept an exact account of my expenses. We've saved the cost of advertising." "And spent it on railroading," said his father, with a laugh. "But, Ford," asked Annie, "did you find a house? a good one?" "Yes," added Mrs. Foster, "now I'm sure you're safe, I do want to hear about the house." "It's all right, mother," said Ford, confidently. "The very house you told me to hunt for.
"The next day, I went to see Andy Bridges, general superintendent of the old home road, who had been a friend of father's, and told him I wanted to go railroading. He offered to put me in his office, but I insisted on the footboard, and to make a long story short, was firing inside of three weeks and running inside of three years. "I was the proudest young prig that ever pulled a throttle.
It seemed to me that the outlook was dark almost Egyptian, in fact. What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no superiorities over us in that matter. Steamboating? No. French steamboating is still of Fulton's date 1809. Postal service? No. France is a back number there. Telegraphy?
"Toddles," he said. Regan sat down heavily in his chair. "What?" demanded the super. "Toddles," said Donkin. "I've been trying to drum a little railroading into him on the key." Regan wiped his face. He looked helplessly from Donkin to the super, and then back again at Donkin. "But but what's he doing at Cassil's Siding? How'd he get there h'm? H'm? How'd he get there?"
The black ribbon which tied her lengthening curly locks into a knot upon her head seemed to acquire a defiant effect. Evidently she was prepared to take sides in this matter. "If rich men's sons can learn railroading and mining and every other kind of business that soils their hands, I don't know what's to prevent one of them from learning farming."
However, at present, you are only going along with me as stockman, in which position I am glad to have you, so we won't stop now to discuss railroading. Let's see what Joe has got for supper, for I'm hungry and I shouldn't be surprised if you were." Indeed Rod was hungry, and just at that moment the word supper was the most welcome of the whole English language.
Elkins," said he; "my business is railroading, and I am always glad to perfect myself in the knowledge of it. Make it plain just how this can be done, and I shall consider my half-hour well expended." Then began the fateful conversation out of which grew the building of the Lattimore & Great Western Railway.
But that was not my only object in coming to the mountains." "Go ahead." "Mr. Bucks and the men he has gathered around him Callahan, Blood and the rest of us are railroad men. Railroading is our business; we know nothing else. There was an embarrassing chance that when our buyer came he might be hostile to the present management.
All sorts of stories have been heard from time to time concerning the supernatural side of railroading, and the peculiar and apparently hidden antics which locomotives occasionally are guilty of. The following story is well worth reproducing, and may serve as an illustration of hundreds of others.
"Well, Benny, been railroading to-day?" his father would often ask playfully, on one of the three nights in the week when he was home, with the grime of the engine coal-oiled from his big hands, and his blue over-jeans hanging out behind the kitchen door.
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