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Show Beating the Train. "Now, Thomas," said the foreman of the construction gang to a green hand who had just been put on the Job, "keep your eyes open. Whan you see a train coming throw down your tools and jump off the track. Run like blazes'!" "Sure!" said Thomas, and began to swing his pick. In a few minutes the Empire State Express came whirling along. Thomas threw down his pick and started up the track ahead of the train as fast as he could. The train overtook him nnd tossed hlra into a ditch. Badly shaken up, he was taken to the hospital, where the foreman fore-man visited him. "You blithering idiot!" said the foreman, "didn't I tell you to take care and get out of the way? Why didn't you run up the side of the hill?" "Up the solde of the hill, Is it, sor?" said Thomas through the bandages on his face. "Up the solde of the hill? By the powers, I can't bate It on the level, let alone runnln' up hill." |