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Show The Penalty of Politeness. When James J. Hill is in the humor he will tell you of a particularly polite po-lite brakeman in the west, who never tired of answering the innumerable questions put to him concerning the scenic features along his line. Usually Usual-ly the brakeman formed part of a crew that comprised a conductor who was something of a grouch. On one occasion when the polite brakeman had been for some time expatiating ex-patiating upon the beauties of nalure as seen from the car window, a passenger pas-senger whispered to the conductor: "Can you tell me how the brakeman lost his forefinger? He seems to be a nice fellow." "Sure, he's a nice fellow," assented the grouchy conductor. "That's the trouble. Why, that fellow is so obliging oblig-ing that he's worn his finger off pointing point-ing out the scenery along the line." Judge. |