Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1913 — Put Him Off All Right [ARTICLE]

Put Him Off All Right

A soldier got a furlough at Nashville, and, laboring under a “load” of commissary, took the train for the north. He handed the a dollar, and told him to be sure z and put him off at Ellzabethtowta. “I may 1)1601, but yo’ pu’mme off any’ow, an’ ’fl fight, yo’ hl’ me an* drag me off, shee?” During the night when they arrived there the brakeman, after a terrific fight, put the soldier off at Elizabethtown. As It grew light and the train neared Louisville the brakeman shook the drowsy passengers and shouted: “All out!” “What does this mean?” said an angry soldier, now sober, when he got off and found himself at Louisville. “Didn’t I give you a dollar and tell you -to put me off at Elizabethtown?” The trainman’s jaw dropped, and he stared at him blankly. "Are you the man? Then, who the dickens was the feller I did put off there?”