Show TREATED HIS HISE ENGINE E GINE KINDLY Washington post PO L LYes Yes sir said the tat lat at engineer J 1 1 always made it a a point to be friendly with my engine same as a good team teamster teamster ster la is kind to his horses nr s seem seemed seemed ed d to appreciate cl te 11 it Sometimes I get one that is dyspeptic with a perpetual el grouch like some human beins but it aint long tong before I have em sos eat out of my hand Now there was the 1133 When I got gother gother gother her she was like an unruly child but after I had run her a spell n used her firmly but gently lettin her know I 1 Iwas Iwas was boss she ehe fell tell to like Ilke a charm charmI I 1 always put up a holler hollen Jf jt I sus the yardmaster was wag on more cars than the 1133 could handle especially especial at such times as I 1 thought the theold theold theold old girl was oft off her feed It sure stood me in good goot stead for tor whenever I 1 got Into a tight place n needed to shove her a little bit to make mak a point shed never lay down on me once 4 Now Nance Id 19 say to her when I Iwas Iwas was WM oilin ollin roun weve got to be In Congers In Just so many minutes Do your prettiest on the tle sime same plan as a good driver hands his horse a red apple before he urges him to draw a heavy load up a tedious hill bill An say when Id give her steam shed whirl her train along at twentieth century limited speed One hOne night durin a heavy heay snowstorm I pulled down through the yards with orders to go out over the Old Pike branch a 0 single lInglE track short cut we use when then the main line is la pretty well clogged up with traffic I laid l id at the tank till No 12 1 came in a little late After No 12 pulled in I opened the throttle up on the 1133 She slipped n stewed slewed sl wed n slid aroun never movin an anInch anInch anInch Inch Come on Nance get on the job I 1 said paid to her Weve Veve got to make by b Theres no time to be here My lly kind words had had no more effect cre t than a safety razor at a darky picnic She just simply move With her n a aroun she finally uncoupled the air hose be between between tween the tender n the engine I had to get down under the tank n fuss aroun aronn five live minutes to get em hitched up again All this while the good old engine was n a aroun like a n faithful dog I read about In a book whose master was about to take talve a walk long along a path In which an ambush had been laid for him The dog kep a n aroun his master i until the man gave up his walk n hi hilife his life was saved The old 13 11 seemed to be bo sayin to tom tom tom m Now Pop theres danger out ou there th rc ahead I go If 11 I wore wre you ou An pretty soon mon I got a superstitious tiers hunch that evil was lurkin in our path pah n a I determined to lay right in that fn n a await developments not the comments of or the crew that I was train In for a job as janitor of an old ladies home ah other rude remarks 0 Old Nance never acted this Oils wa way with me before I said n there must be doln doin Im not goin to budge bulge In about thre three we heard a along along long whistle fn in n the sJ to the westward fn n lon JOUi along comes tomes in m n extra eastbound nd freight In iii over the single track I had ha orders to meet em at shUn Now just consider what would have happened if that had not in some someway way got g a line on tbt little black blaek man map ahead of us I certainly would have hae gone up that branch for was worth worthIn In order not to lay the extra out at n we would have met head headon on an in the blindin snowstorm I tell teU teUy you y u it pays pa to be kind |