Show WHY HE DIDN'T JUMP Here is one erie that a young oung man who knows a good story tory when he hears it heard one railroad man rears tell another in ina in ina a a d depot pot up the line the other day We picked up a new Irishman somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- some where up-country up and set him to work 3 brakin on n a construction train at cents a mile mile for wages One day when hen him an me was vas on the train she got gotway away way on one o 0 them mountain grades and the first thing we she waS was down the track at about ninety miles an hour with in sight b but t the ditch and the happy huntin grounds when e we e come to the end I twisted down as ashard hard as I could all aU along the tops and then of a sudden I see Mike crawling along toward the end of one of ot the cars on all fours with his face the color of milk i I thought he was g ready to Jump an I see his finish if he did Mike I says for Gods God's sake dont don't Jump He clamps his fingers on the running board to give him a chance to turn round and at me contemptuous answer Jump is it Do think rd Td be ju an me m money as fast as I am Portland Oregonian |