Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1859 — Sut Eovengood and the Locomotive. [ARTICLE]

Sut Eovengood and the Locomotive.

The first locomotive' Sut ever saw was standing with' steal* up, and nearly ready .to go, making no noise save a suppressed hufiiming from the- safety valves. Sut, had in his skeery, cautious way, clambered to the top of the tender to find out ‘-what sort of a beasts” it was, when' the engineer slvly gave the whistle lever a pull—s'hy-y-y! Sut lit - twenty feet distant on a pile of cordwood, and after running until lie got straightened up, he turned, round all eyes, and said. “What in the.deuce did you do to it, mister?” Just at this moment a negro came trundling a truck, with a cooking stove, a joint of pipe on the flue hole, and pots and pans hanging all round. Sut took a look first at the stove . nd then at the locomotive: a light brokeiout over his perplexity, and he shouted to the engineer; v “Oli, yes, I understands it all now; the darned old brute teas jint a htdu rin' for her co.’tl”