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Updated: June 4, 2025
And she told Cupido to have the station-agent get a move on and send what was still missing the heavier luggage boxes and boxes that come from way off somewhere the other end of the world, and that cost a fortune just to ship.... There you are!... And why not? The way she earned it!"
An early experiment in government was discouraging. In 1883 the Texas Pacific station-agent was elected mayor. His name was Ewing, a little man with fierce whiskers and mild blue eyes. Two nights after the election a gang of boys from the "Hash Knife" outfit were in town; fearing circumscription of some of their privileges, the election did not have their approval.
Every state that strives to protect its big game has such doings as this to contend with: In the winter of 1911-12, a resident poacher brought into Grant, Colorado, a lot of mountain sheep meat for sale; and he actually sold it to residents of that town! The price was six cents per pound. A lot of it was purchased by the railway station-agent.
"How long before the night freight ter H comes along, Bill?" drawled one of the men in charge of Black Bruin. "Alec, here, has got a bar as big as a cow that he is a-takin' to the circus which'll be at H to-morrow. He don't want to miss it." "It's due now," replied the station-agent, and even as he spoke, the shrill whistle of the freight sounded in the distance.
I hung on to him for dear life. "You're not going to leave me here, Dinky-Dunk, in the middle of this wilderness?" I cried out, while the conductor and brakeman and station-agent all called and holloed and clamored for Duncan to hurry. "Olie will take you home, beloved," Dinky-Dunk tried to assure me. "You'll be there by midnight, and I'll be back by Saturday evening!" I began to bawl. "Don't go!
George thought the third man of the party, who was neatly attired, must be the station-agent; the fourth was unmistakably a newly-arrived Englishman. As soon as they were seated, a very smart young woman came up and rattled off the names of various unfamiliar dishes. "I think I'll have a steak; I know what that is," Edgar told her.
Just at that moment, down the short platform an electric light, that was so feeble that it seemed to show a pine-knot influence in its heredity, was turned on by the station-agent, who was so slow that I perceived the influence of a descent from old Mr. Territt, who drove the stage that came down from the city before the war, and my fellow-sufferer stood revealed.
The weigh-bill from the station-agent was even worse than he had expected; and the question which he asked himself over and over was whether Jennings's under-estimation of the weight was deliberate misrepresentation or bad figuring? Whatever the cause the costly error had shaken his faith in Jennings. Bruce was asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.
"Some folks ain't got enough sense to go in outen the rain, seems so." "'T ain't rainin' not so's to call it so," said the crony, whose name was Smith. "The gell's pretty." "Ya-as, kind o'," agreed the station-agent, tilting back critically. "Boy's upstandin'." "Which one?" "Big 'n. Little 'un ain't got no git-up-'n'-git fer one o' his size. Look at him holdin' to her hand."
When we reached the railroad at Portulacca, a thrifty lemon-growing ranch on the Volusia and Chinkapin Railway, the first thing I did was to present my dog to the station-agent but I was obliged to give him five dollars before he consented to accept the dog. However, Miss Barrison interviewed the station-master's wife, a kindly, pitiful soul, who promised to be a good mistress to the creature.
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