HAD BEEN BOBBED.
'One night we waited up to the limit, and was just aboub pullin' oub to run the chances when we heard old No. 3 whistle. When she reached us she stopped, and a worse scared lot of folks you never saw. They said a dozen road agents had held 'em up about ten miles below and took every cent, on board, includiu' the money in the express car. What was worse, they evidently intended waitin' for the down train and givin' us a dose of the same medicine. ' Wo only had five passengers on board, and three of 'em were poor white trash that didn't have a ahilliD* between 'em. T'other man was a fire-eatfn' Texan, and when ho smelled fight he jumped up, knocked hia heels together and crowed. Then there was one young woman from Atlanta, who we tried to persuade to go back on the other train to Charleston, but she wouldn't have it that way. Said she guessed if we could stand it she could, and at the worst she hadn't anything to lose, provided the conductor would hide her ticket for her. She was grit clean through, and we were proud of her compared to the shaky lot on No. 3.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 3 February 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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209HAD BEEN BOBBED. Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 3 February 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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