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Updated: June 20, 2025
I smothered in small halls situated over saloons and livery stables, travelling by freight-train at night in order to ride in triumph as "Orator of the Day" at some county fair, until at last I lost all sense of being the writer and recluse. As I went north my indignation burned brighter, for the discontent of the people had been sharpened by the drought which had again cut short the crop.
"Bradford, has he come to yet?" queried the brutal voice of Glidden. "Nope," replied the guard. "I guess he had a hard knock. He's never budged." "We've got to beat it out of here," said Glidden. "It's long after midnight. There's a freight-train down the track. I want all the gang to board it. You run along, Bradford, and catch up with the others."
On the other hand, his rival, becoming more and more democratic in his leaning to the grotesque, gloried in traveling even in the caboose of a freight-train.
And looking at these creatures, who were truly less like men than dangerous wild beasts, I could not wonder at the grave concern which Tizoc had manifested at thought of the risk which we ran in taking them for allies. "It's as easy t' start 'em," Young said, when he came to an understanding of the situation, "as 'tis t' start a freight-train down a three per cent. grade.
And if I won't let him go, he said, he'd run away and 'hit a freight-train outa Dry Lake, and get to California, anyway. And he'd do it, too! He's perfectly awful when he gets an idea in his head. I know he's spoiled all the boys pet him so " "Wait. Let's get this thing straight. Do you think for one minute, Mrs. Bennett, that I'd coax the Kid away?
What Sharley should have done was to go home as straight as she could go, put on dry stockings, and get her supper. What she did was to linger, as all people linger, in the luxury of their first wretchedness, till the uncanny twilight fell and shrouded her in. Then a thought struck her. A freight-train was just coming in, slowly but heavily.
It was still raining heavily, and on the first cut beyond Porchester Junction his train was stopped by a flagman, sent back from a freight-train. There was a wash-out just ahead, and the way would be blocked for several hours yet, if not longer.
They went down by freight-train, after the weighty and conversational business of leaving Hugh with Aunt Bessie. Carol was exultant over this irregular jaunting. It was the first unusual thing, except the glance of Bresnahan, that had happened since the weaning of Hugh. They rode in the caboose, the small red cupola-topped car jerked along at the end of the train.
"H'm!" mused Kennedy as he flicked the ashes off his cigar and meditatively watched a passing freight-train on the railroad below us. "There goes a car loaded with tons and tons of scrap iron. You want me to scrap that three-inch steel door, do you?" "Kennedy, I'll buy that particular scrap from you at almost its weight in gold.
He had read a great deal of hard theology, and had at last reached that curious state which is so common in good ministers, that, namely, in which they contrive to switch off their logical faculties on the narrow side-track of their technical dogmas, while the great freight-train of their substantial human qualities keeps in the main highway of common-sense, in which kindly souls are always found by all who approach them by their human side.
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