| Show How a Piece or Bacon Saved Dunn’s "Xow Jane don't want that Job Wh en the men on the engine I don’t need it with all bacon saw the green switchlight at Wathe other good things yon have satch a mile distant the anxious put in and besides I will have a conductor in the cupola at the quick trip with a stock train and rear end caught glimpses of the he at the other end of the road in garish electric eye of the special time for breakfast’ as it darted around the curves of But the pretty little wife of the crooked canyon speedilv Conductor Dunn heeding not the gaining on the stock train A terrific concussion and the words of her careful spouse of two bacon fat pieces dropped lowering of the indicator in the into his lunch basket and putting air gauge told Dunn that the the well filled basket into his train had broken in two If he hand kissed him good-by- e sent a flagman back he must tell Dunn hurried through the dark the officials he had miscalculated streets and across the tracks to his time distance power and the the yard office where amid the possibility of a break in two and noise ami confusion of a bustling would in all probability' lose his railroad yard he read and signed job his orders compared time with In an instant he remembered the engineer and in five minutes an old railroad trick but he had with thirty-fiv- e extra 1 cars no soap and oil would leave of cattle whistled out at the east traces He thought of his lunch switch had she put it in after all? He Dunn had to be “into clear” at ripped off the cover of the basWasatch a siding up a steep ket and while the brakemen grade ten miles away in thirty 'chained up” Conductor Dunn minutes as the president's special with a little piece of “dead pig” in followed the extra out of the each hand flew down the track terminal after an interval of ten about two hundred yards minutes It was a risky piece of greased the rails with the bacon business and very short time but and running back reached his Dunn took a chance well knowing own train just as it started up the if the special caught him he would hill again be discharged When the special hit the I |
