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Show AN INDIAN FIREMAN "The Indian is a peculiar proposition," remarked re-marked a well-known business man to The Stroller Strol-ler recently. "One of them dropped in on me recently. re-cently. He was from Neah Bay, and had never been in Seattle before. He handed me a card on which was printed his name and address, and the statement that he is a locomotive fireman and dealer in fresh fish. There was the added statement state-ment that he is familiar with all block signal systems. "A little later we had occasion to cross Railroad Rail-road avenue. A big Mogul engine was pulling a line of cars. The Indian looked at it with astonishment. aston-ishment. " 'Heap bigger than I supposed,' he remarked. " 'Didn't you ever see one as large as that,' I asked, thinking of his card. " 'I never saw any locomotive before,' he replied. re-plied. "Why, I thought you were a locomotive fireman.' fire-man.' " 'I am. I learned it through correspondence school.' " It is no use talking, Lo is surely going In for an education. Seattle Argus. |