Show flagged by a cov those people sleeping comfortably back in the pullmans little know how otten the engineer grasps the air brake valve thinking that the next minute his widow and fatherless ahll dren will be eligible to participate in the division of the carnegie hero fund said the fat engineer in most cases there s no cause for alarm but my hair has stood on end so often that it has fallen out and now im totally blind one night last week I 1 was coming east on no 44 and though I 1 do say it myself we were the trail at a rate that would 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 v av in violently at right angles with the track the foual flag signal hem I 1 says to myself another freight hog laid down ahead and it s up to us to do the good samaritan act and push em out gettin a train over this pike on time makes that stunt of the camel goin through the needle s eye look like falling out of a hay loft but why in gol don t that wooden headed flagman step out of the middle of the track and let us passa he can take the steps on the tank when we go by and tell me what s the matter nothing must do but we stop dead and lose more time for the object behind the red light was detill comin up the center of the track with the lantern viciously I 1 d have to stop dead or run over tha cuss by his tima I 1 was most ready to take passage in an aerial greyhound gray hound and I 1 made the e of reversia rev ersin her to avoid dittin the man bang went the cylinder head on the right side with the noise of the explosion the thing behind the red light gave a jump and cleared both tracks landin in a ditch I 1 knew that no human bein could make a leap liko that so I 1 started to investigate and what do you 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 sha had broken through some farm fence a little further down the line and in rubbing her nose against an order lamp had stuck her horn through th lantern on the post and brought it away with her and there we were tor an hour while I 1 disconnected and got the en gine fixed up so we could move on slowly using on side |