Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1913 — Peevish Passenger. [ARTICLE]

Peevish Passenger.

It was on an East Texas train. The little coffee pot of an engine, having wheezed laboriously over serpentine rails, jolted to a restful stop at no place In particular. Time passed tediously. Some of the passengers stalk ed up "end down the aisles while others drew their felt hats down over their eyes and tried to forget It. When a half hour had elapsed, the conductor came through. "Say, friend,” said a querulous voiced old man, "as near as you can tell, what’s holdin’ us?”* "We’re taking on water 1 ," was the explanation. “Well, why don’t you git another teaspoon? That un seems to leak something dreadful!” —Pulitzer's MagMine.