THE ROBBERS SURPRISED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 3 February 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE ROBBERS SURPRISED.

• Then I let her out, and the old teapot gave a jump that shook the false teeth out) of the mouth of one of the Georgia crackers in the coach. We badn'b more than got around the bend when a red' lamp was waved across tho track about halfa-mile ahead. There they are, Pete ! I yelled, ab the sums time blowing for brakes, just as if I intended to stop"; bub we had agreed before we started thab when I blowed that way.it meant there was fun ahead. •We camo down the track Jickity splib, and I saw ab least twenty men with guna standin' ab one side waitin' for us to stop. When we'were about a hundred yards off the gang realiuod we didn't intend to linger, and they commenced to shoob. Zip, zip, zip, the balls wont through the cab. Then we heard our people behind replin', 1 Jußbas we were congratulatin' ourselves we were safe, I saw a tie ahead on the track, put there by the villains to wreck us. I thought ib was all up sure then, bub the pilob struck the tie port of sideways, knocked it into tho middle of nexb week, and we kited down the road, leavin' the maddoßt lob of road agents behind you ever saw.

• Bub the old engine got her crown sheeb burned that night, and had to go to shop for a month,' he added, clambering into the cal> as the distant whistle of No. 8 came

floating up from below,