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Updated: June 2, 2025
He was wide enough awake, if having his eyes open meant that, and he had a shoe on one hand and a shoe-brush in the other. But he merely joined in the general up-roar and shouted for the police." "Excuse me," Wanhope interposed. "I wish to be clear as to the facts. You had reasoned it out that the porter could quiet the tumult?" "Never reasoned anything out so clearly in my life."
"Well, I waited four hours for his nibs. When he come to his office quarters he was 'bout up to my arms, red as a can-buoy, and white hair stickin' up straight as a shoe-brush on his head. He looked cross enough to bite a tenpenny nail in two. "'Ran into the dock, did ye ran into Her Majesty's dock, and ye had room enough to turn a fleet in!
The conductor, in the excitement, yelled at the man, bringing the rear brakeman from the smoking-room, followed by the black boy bearing a shoe-brush. Once more they bore the bad man down, and then the conductor grabbed the rope and signalled the engineer ahead. Men leaped from their berths, and women showed white faces between the closely drawn curtains.
They had not been so well treated by the old companies as to make any outcry on their behalf. Standing outside the city council door, on the Monday evening when the bill was finally passed, Mr. Samuel Blackman, president of the South Side Gas Company, a little, wispy man with shoe-brush whiskers, declared emphatically: "This is a scoundrelly piece of business.
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