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So at last the constable, agreeing to forfeit his share of the fine, and the magistrate to take a time-bill on the contractor for the next section of the railway for the remaining twenty-five dollars, they let the man go, neither of them, I am sure, seeing him depart with regret.
Their chief desires are that the train may run so slowly as to enable them to enjoy the scenery by the way; that the time-bill shall allow of frequent and lengthy stoppages on the journey, and especially that the conclusion of the trip shall be postponed to as late an hour as possible, as they labour under no extravagant anxiety to come to its end.
Well, one day as we was close upon Langrye station about two miles I suddenly takes it into my head that I'd bring the thing to a pint, so I sings out to my mate that was my fireman, ma'am says I, `look out Jim, an' I draws out my pencil an' bends my legs you must always bend your legs a little, ma'am, w'en you writes on a locomotive, it makes springs of 'em, so to speak an' I writes on the back of a blank time-bill, `Molly, my dear, no more shilly-shallyin' with me.
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