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Show PLEASANT FCn iJCRVOUS LADY. Stage Driver Kindly Explained Why He Carried Hatchet. There Is a Santa Fe stage driver by the name of Sleeper, who Is quite a character In his way. Ho answers questions freely, and gives the passengers pas-sengers a good deal of Information that Is not called for by their tickets A nervous old lady was riding do.vn a dangerous looking trail with him onco, when she noticed a hatchet lying In the bottom of the stage and inquired why ho carried It. "I use the hatchet to knock Injured passengers on tho head," replied Mr. Sleeper. Tho old lady gasped with astonishment astonish-ment and drew away from him to the other end of the seat. Sleeper leaned over toward her, and In a confidential whisper explained: ex-plained: "Wo havo a good many accidents on this hero line. The stago's alius tip-pin' tip-pin' over and rollln' down precipices, and every time a passenger gits hurt he sues the company for damages Those hero damage suits uses up nil tho profits of stagln', and we've had to stop 'em, so every driver carries a hatchet. When a passenger gits hurt wo simply knock him on tho head and throw the body over the precipice, and then there ain't no lawsuit. See?" Montreal Herald. |