Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — Couldn't Evade "Special” [ARTICLE]

Couldn't Evade "Special”

A Lancashire man who a hen roost near the railway waft complaining to a friend about having some of the birds killed by passing trains. “Tha should hang ’em a timetable up in the hoose, and then they could look when th’ trains were booked to come past,” said the friends. “Timetable be hanged!” said the other. “They know weel enough when th’ ordinary trains 'll pass. When Aw’ve hed one killed it’s alius bin wi' a 'special.’ ” —London Tit-Bits.