A Good Yarn
J£ «k»racterisfcic incident is reporteu sto s>: rment American joiuisal. A prisj»ner accusud of a serious crime YFasWng conveyed" by train, duly handunder the charge of the deputy-sherifL The latter left the train fcra f«w minutes at a stopping station for refreshment. Just then the guard canio along and demanded the other passenger's ticket, prisoner endeavoured to- explain Ms delicate situation,, hut the guard wouldn't have it. He utterly derided alike the story aiul the handcuffs, assuring the prisoner that this was quite too old and stale a trick for getting a free passage. So he sternly turned the prisoner off the train, saying "he wasa't going to have any tramps riding ' dead-head m that line." The prisoner was not losg in disappearing. Jus# as the train was starting the deputy-sheriff returned, and as ho gz-adually took in the situation, his observation* thereupon arc described as being most impressire in their whole-souled charmctßr. The otlver passenger rasftll '■•"wanted."
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 72, 18 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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161A Good Yarn Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 72, 18 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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