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Updated: May 28, 2025
Poor road bed; poor construction; temporary wooden trestles across dangerous spans everything the opposite of what sound engineering science seemed to demand. Why did not the owners of the roads exercise business foresight to provide for reasonably solid construction?
There was only a little grey wax figure lying poised before the face of Christ, and little children flicking away flies. Among the flowers in the coffin I noticed a heavy metal cross it would be buried with her. Hanging over the trestles at each of the four corners were gorgeous hand-embroidered towels.
A few kitchen utensils, hung up against the wall, were visible in the twilight. At that hour an old table on trestles, but bare of linen, was laid with pewter-spoons, and the dish concocted by the old woman. Three wretched chairs were all the furniture of this room, which was at once the kitchen and the dining-room.
On two low trestles, in the middle of the floor, lay a coffin with the lid on, on the top of which was stretched the dead body of an old emaciated woman in her graveclothes, the quality of which was much finer than one could have expected to have seen in the midst of the surrounding squalidness.
"Ah! your work is not always a pleasant one," I said, associating the feelings of which I have already spoken with the facts before me, and looking at the coffin, the lower part of which stood nearly finished upon trestles on the floor. "Well, there are unpleasant things in all trades," he answered. "But it does not matter," he added, with an increase of bitterness in his smile.
We learned afterward that a man named Bird had displaced a rail on purpose to throw the train off the track, and thereby give us time. Mr. Guthrie explained that in the ravine just beyond Salt Creek were several high and important trestles which, if destroyed, would take months to replace, and General Anderson thought it well. worth the effort to save them.
Not so many centuries ago one or two books made quite a respectable library; dining-room tables were real banqueting boards laid on trestles and taken away after the banquet; one bench might well serve several Perfect Gentlemen to sit upon; and a chair of his own was the baron's privilege.
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"There were three of us," he said, "and one got shot, and one got married, and the third ? You will grow fat, Clay, and live on Fifth Avenue and wear a high silk hat, and some day when you're sitting in your club you'll read a paragraph in a newspaper with a queer Spanish date-line to it, and this will all come back to you, this heat, and the palms, and the fever, and the days when you lived on plantains and we watched our trestles grow out across the canons, and you'll be willing to give your hand to sleep in a hammock again, and to feel the sweat running down your back, and you'll want to chuck your gun up against your chin and shoot into a line of men, and the policemen won't let you, and your wife won't let you.
Then thou canst see our Lottie and tell her how many times sweeter she is than a sugar-plum! Ho, ho!" He was gone at last and I fairly blushed myself down the street, pushing my way between the ranks of the market stalls and the elbowing farmers. "Are ye blind or only daft?" one apple wife called out, as I shook her rickety erection of trestles and boards.
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