A Negligent Conductor.
When the train going west over the Detroit, Lansing, and Northern Railroad had pulled out of Howell the other day, the conductor discovered that a man who should have stopped there was still on board.
1 Didn't you hear the brakeman call out your station ?' he asked.
' Yes, I heard him call Howell, but how did I know it was the Howell I wanted to get off at ? I've never travelled on this road before.'
' Well, we don't have but one Howell on this line. 1
' Then why didn't you come to me like a man and say so ? I'm from Nova Scotia, and how was I to know but that your country was fullofHowells?'
' Passengers should know where they want to get off,' muttered the conductor. 1 So they should, sir, and if you had kindly come to me and notified me that this was the only Howell, and that this was the Howell where my aunt lives, I should not now be here, sir. I shall now decline to get off this train until I have the advice of her Majesty's Consul at Detroit. — Detroit Free Press.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 28
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192A Negligent Conductor. Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 28
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