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Show Ij WON WAGER BY BAITING VICTIM. I After Much Provocation Conductor 3 Was Caught Napping. , Some timo In tho seventies a party of friends en routo to lloston from Portland on tho-Hoston & Maino rail: road, with Payson Tucker as conductor, conduc-tor, hatched up a plot, and made a wager of a quart bottle of wlno that Tucker couldn't be caught napping. Ono of tho party said that bo would take tho bet. Ho separated from tho others, and, as tho conductor came along, asked what station they wcro then passing, and on receiving tho reply ho answered, an-swered, "That's what I thought." This act was repeated sovcrnt times, and finally "Conductor PayBon" became very indignant, and paid: "Do you , take rao for a d d Tool?" "That's what I thought," replied the other, who now owned n quart of tho finest wlno. lloston Herald. I |