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Show COWS NOT FAST ENOUGH. Trouble Was They Could Not I- ss Ahead of the Tran. "While 1 was traveling out If i"1.' Inst month," said a drummer, "1 . i occasion to patronize a mlscrau' 'one-horse' rnllroad which serves t v eral of the Ohio river towns. were Jogging along at a distress! .g"; low rate of speed when of a su 1 tho train came to a dead stop In " middle of a largo meadow. Man) w tho passengers whose patience had l come exhausted asked a brakeman t. cause of the delay. "'There's a herd of cows on t'..c track ahead,' ho answered. "In about ten minutes the train t under way again, Jerking convulsively convulsive-ly along for about a mile or two, wl;c i It again enme to a halt. That wr.i t e limit. An old man who was sittli " near the door turned to the br.i' f man, who was plainly annoyed by Cr many questions, and said Irrltabh "'What In thunder Is the ranfer anyhow?' " 'Why, we've caught up to the v again!' sarcastically explained . brakeman." |
