A MIXED TRAIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4496, 2 June 1883, Page 2

A MIXED TRAIN.

On some of the western roads they attach, a passenger car to a freight train and call it a "mixed." It isn't in the order of things that such trains should travel very rapidly, and sometimes there is considerable growling among the "traffic." "Are we 'most there, conductor ?" asked a nervous man for the hundredth time. "Remember my wife is sick, and I am anxious.'* "We'll get there in time," replied the conductor,- stolidly. Half an hoar later the nervous man approached him again. "I guess she's dead now," said he, mournfully; "but I'd give you a little something extra if you could manage to catch up with the funeral. Maybe she won't be so decomposed bat what I could recognise her." The conductor growled at him and the man subsided. " Conductor," said he, after an hour's silence, "if the wind isn't dead ahead, I wish you would put on some* steam. I'd like to see where my wife is buried before the tombstone crumbles tc» pieces. Put yourself. in my place for a moment." The conductor shook him off, and the man relapsed into profound melancholy. " I say, conductor^" said he after a long pause, " I've got a note coming due in three months. Can't yon fix it so as to rattle along a littleP" "If you come near me again I'll knock you down, shouted the conductor savagely. The nervous man regarded him sadly, and went to his seat. Two hours later the conductor saw him chatting gaily and laughing heartily with a brother victim, and approached him. " Don't feel badly about your wife's death ?" " Time heals alt wounds," sighed the nervous man. " And you are not so particular about the noteP'* sneered the conductor. " Hot now. That's all right. Don't worry. Tre been figuring up, and il! find that the note has been outlawed since I spoke to you last,".