Show WON WAGER BY BAITING VICTIM After Much Provocation Conductor Was Caught Napping Some time i in the seventies a party of friends en route to Boston from Portland on the Boston Maine railroad railroad rail rail- road with Payson Tucker as as conductor tor hatched up a plot and made a wager of a quart bottle of wine that Tucker couldn't be caught napping One of the party said that he would take the bet He separated from the others and as the conductor came along asked what station they were then passing and on receiving the reply he answered answered an an- any what I thought This act was repeated several times and finally Conductor Payson became very indignant and said Do you take me for a d d-d d d fool 1 what I 1 t thought ought replied the theother 1 i iother other who now owned owned a quart of the finest wine Boston Boston Herald |