Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — The Railroad Hog. [ARTICLE]

The Railroad Hog.

“Can I have half this seat?” “No, sir!” shouted the indignant hog. “I represent a whole church and am on my way to Petoskey to camp meeting. V “Now you look a here,” said the woodbox man, as he reached over and secured two terrible grips on the hog’s body; “I don’t represent nobody nor no nothin’, and ’stead of bein’ on the way to camp meeting, I ’spect I’m on the high road to blazes, but you want to yell out mighty quick which half of this seat you didn’t pay for.” It wasn’t 30 seconds before the man on the high road to tdaze* had all the seat, the other refusing to sit beside him. After a minute he shared it with two boys and several satchels, and looking over to me he kindly sakl: “Much obliged for havin’ yer shoo tin’ iron ready. Boon’s you wife gfts to sleep I’ll pass over some of the best gin mortal man ever tried to »waller.”