Show AN s 11 ORY th the mal w s 6 a tool 1 bet bat H a abild 1 t til ho alu trial the locomotive ong engineer ineer was oft duty and bad had lime time to talk LAIL I 1 we have bare some queer experiences he aid said one of the thing that ie is pleasant ie is to run over animate and we avoid it all we can they never satin to know that it ii is a gme creat deal safer to lalie take are step steps to ice the right or left than it L L to tako take five are hundred right ahead that why we hav have ato to top often and heal beat them ob off the track I 1 bad ft a funny thing happen to mo me once on the chesapeake ohio road about tiro two miles rom S bridge one dy day I 1 seared up a mule in I 1 a the middle of the track and I 1 whittle whistled tor for all I 1 was borth bat the mule kept in the track o 0 on a run rum at last I 1 had te to stop and the fireman went ahead and drove him off olt by tho the time the fireman got back and we had bad that con founded mule tras on tie tl e track again and find we were after him we lye dare to take the risk of running over him hill for that ii Is a dangerous dan geroue business busine ea so we bad had to stop again an ana drive him aw away sy well thia that thin thins oc occurred currea or twice more bcd md by tho the lait last time wo we hod had pot cot eo go close to the bridge tant WB we were uro sure the fool mule was going to try to cross it and we sto scoped topped ped again this time cussing mad and fully prepared prepare 3 to shoot tho the mulo mule U wo we got a chance 1 a e him right rig ht up to the bridge and then down over the field ho he went with a bray and moped all right in the road below end right ahead of us u on the bridga fattened fastened down some way with hil his icea leas between the tie we found that mule a mate mats we saw aw it U all mt then them and by georgo we were tempted to take up a collection from the passenger 0 on boari for the benefit of the male mule which bad saved their lives for if it we vve had run la ii on that under heaven could bare cared saved the iralu ai As the engineer concluded his tale a pious looking man in the far corner got up lowly slowly and anil started out I 1 had a very respectable lie ile to tell my bo I 1 aid said wearily but I 1 in too to tell it this even and the door slammed to on hie his beels heels Detroit irea I 1 ree press |