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Title: Around the tea-table
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Cowperthwait & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t passedit? Do you always stop there ? What timeis it? Madam, do keep quiet! None of yourimpudence! How far from here to the Junc-tion ? Do vou think that other train will wait? Do vou think we will o-et there in time? Sav,conductor, how manv miles vet? Are voulooking out? Now. you wont let me go past,will you? Here! conductor, here! Help meout with my carpet-bag. and bandbox, and shawl,and umbrella, and this bundle of sausage and head-cheese. What was worse, the train got goingone hundred and fifty miles an hour, and pullingthe connecting-rope, it broke, and the cars got offthe track, and leaped on again, and the stovechanged places with the wood-box. and thingsseemed going to terrible split and unmitigatedsmash. The cities flew past. The brakes werepowerless. The whistle grew into a fiends shriek.Then the train began to slow up. and sheetedghosts swun=r lanterns alon^ the track, and thecars rolled into a white depot, which turned out tobe a great marble tomb: and looking back to see
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THE CONDUCTORS DREAM. 177 his passengers, they were all stark dead, frozen inupright horror to the car-backs. Hearing by the mans snore, and seeing by hispainful look, he was having an awful dream, wetapped him on the shoulder and said, Conductor!Turn over that seat, and take my shawl, and stretchyourself out, and have a comfortable nap. Thankyou, sir, he said, and immediately sprawled him-self out in the easiest way possible. He beganhis slumbers just as an express train glides grace-fully out of Pittsburg depot; then went at itmore earnestly, lifted all the brakes, put on all thesteam, and in five minutes was under splendidheadway. He began a second dream, but it wasthe opposite of the first. He thought that he hadjust stepped on the platform of his car, and a ladyhanded him a bouquet fresh from the hot-house.A long line of railroad presidents and superin-tendents had come to the depot to see him off, andtipped their hats as he glided out into the openair. The car was an improvement

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