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Show Tricks of Horn Car Conductor!. "Even the best of us," he said, "sometimes "some-times miss a fare in a crowd, but it doesn't happen often, and that is because we have thing down to a system. On all lines there are certain streets at which we start to go through our car to pick up nickels. Often I am in doubt as to who has not paid a fare, but I don't take chances of wounding any one's feelings by asking for it in that case. I merely meander through the car, stopping now and then before any one I suspect of not having anted up. The guilty person usually has pricks of conscience when I place myself before him and clears up all doubt by beginning be-ginning to fish through his pockets for the nickel. That is one of the tricks, and it saves many harsh words, for almost n often as you ask a man who really has settled if his fare has been paid he will abuse you for intimating that he is trying try-ing to do the railway company. I have learned by experience that it is better to chip in a nickel ont of your own pocket than to go around asking for fares when you are in doubt, and most old time conductors con-ductors will agree with me." Boston Herald. |