AN AWFPUL EXPERIENCE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5179, 28 May 1885, Page 3

AN AWFPUL EXPERIENCE.

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"Taikin- about awful r&i marked the tramp, " Slit you tell on a worser time'than me an' Nosed Jack had last winter. ""WorsSsi thing wot ever was. ''Twas the talk oi the road all summer, boss, an' me on* Jack was voted charakturo, we was." ' •• i " What was'this experience ?" - " Well, yer see, me an' Jack was pickitt' around de railroad yards in Chicago.' one day last winter, lookin' fer busted cracker boxes, or any other lay-out, when we got locked in the car. • Thertf-waa oat, an* so we made the best ; of it, -Hie weather was 1 awful cold, an' v we' wafin that car ..when it got to San FranSiscoi Three .whole weeks '' L . "Incredible! ;You wouldha^e 1 eftarvecl or frozen to death. If 'you're telling thb truth you must hare been skeletons when you were liberated." ' • ; r " Starve 1 Freeze 1. Skeletons! Hogs, you hain't very flip, ia-yer ?. r .Y6u /doii'fc ketch on. In that car was' a hull ilato' Armour's packed meats, a ton ortwo'V crackers an' cakes in boxes, a shipment of cigars, a dozen case o! champagny, nice lot o' Mc6riar whisky, candy boSee,* bats, raisinß, some Milwaukee bottled, a hull lot o'. overcoats, and 'merchandise! generally. But the boss thing wos some o' these .yer oil-heatin' stoves. We hadn't any oil, but there was a barrel of alcohol there, and that did all do same. We had a euchre deck, too, an' played sevan up for champagny by de bottle an' de box. Skeleton, boss 1 the only skeleton we;had on that trip was de.stuS in.de .car when we got to 'Frisco, We was , a-,week pickin' out that car, and you kin bet it took fine work to get hid in it widout bein* seen;" But' it ; was : do ' greatest fls ! ever known m ; de;. ! an ,i; - BfeiDtNo§ed?Jack:iiiade our reps'on it, we'did. Why can't a feller strike a snap like that evervwinter 1"