| Show flagged by a cow those people sleeping comfortably back in the pullmans little know bow how otten the engineer grasps the air brako brake valve thinking that the next minute his widow and fatherless ch call it dren will be eligible to participate in 4 athe the division of the carnegie hero find said the tat fat engineer in moat most 1 cases there theres s no cause for alarm but my hair has stood on end so often tant it has fallen out and now I 1 m totally blind ono one night last week I 1 was coming east on no 44 and though I 1 do say it mys if we vc were the trail at a apte rte that make the empire state express look like a stationary engine I 1 was pretty sure wed come under the wire on time all right when out of the gloom ahead suddenly flashed a red light comin at me warin violently at right angles with the track the usual nag flag signal hem I 1 saya says to myself another freight beg laid down ahead and ita its jup up to us ua to do the good samaritan pact ar d push cm em out bettia a train aver this pike on time makes that caunt ct cf the camel coln through the me needles edles eye ook look like falling failing out of a chay bay loft but why in gol ont that wooden headed beaded flagman flag nan step out of the middle of the irack and let ua us pass he lie can take the steps on the tank when we go by and tell me the matter aut nothing must do but wo we stop dead and lose more time for the object behind the red light was still comin up the center of the track with the lantern sw ingin viciously id i havo have to stop dead or run oler the cuss by this time I 1 was most ready to take passage in an aerial greyhound gray hound bound and I 1 made the mistake of rever reversia rev ersin aln her to avoid fittin the man bang I 1 went the cylinder bead on the right side with the noise of the explosion the thine thing behind the red light gave a jump and cleared bath tracks landin in a ditch I 1 knew that no human belli bein could make a leap like that so I 1 tit arted to investigate and what do yoi yet suppose I 1 found in the ditch A cow A cow with her crumpled horn passed through the ball of a red order lantern evidently she had broken through some farm fence a little further down the line and in rubbing her acae against an order lamp had stuck her horn through the lantern on the post and brought it away with her and there we we were tor for an hour while I 1 disconnected and bot got the engine fixed up so we could move on lowly slowly using one side |
