Show the professors Pro festor vacation boston pott the erie road ig is a sort of highway tor for tramps and they aro are a perpetual menace te to tho the safety of its passengers and a constant source of anxiety to the officers of the company and the trainmen r at one place I 1 forget where now theline the line runs through a ve very lonely country there is is no ha house se for five live miles there aro are dene deme woods on one bide side at least of the tracks and about ila half way of the dista distance co there la Is a bridge twice tins thi bridge had bad been A ared red by tramps and each time a limited express haa a narrow escape the company consequently decided 1 to build a hut but and put a watchman h man in it it was in in summer and an eccentric college professor ro f assor applied I 1 for the position he e liked solitude lie mid said had a fancy for seeing trains go by and wa want nt afraid of the accordingly he lie established I 1 himself there with m ith an ail oil stove a email final arsenal of weapons and a big dog tin twice ice every day a freight train stopped to leave provisions and there was a s ring of cool water wate r near his but ire he returned to his work mork in the tile fall much refreshed by his quiet life and with a monograph in his vali valise ise which he bold sold at a good price to so some me philosophic review |