Chased by a Locomotive. [
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The following is .'Hoosier's'' descrip-
hon OF his first sight of locomotive, aud
his adventure consequent thereon


IL come across thro' the country,
and struck your railroad, and was ply.
ing it about four knots the hour. Now
| bad hearn tell of locomotive. but
never dreamed Of seeing one alive
and kicking; but about two miles from
her hearn something behind me cof.
TN, sneezing, and laundering, and
looked around. Sure enough here
she come down after me, paving the
aIrth up and splitting the road vide
open, with more smoke and fire fly.
ing than orto come out of a hundred
burning mountains. There was a do.
zen Wagons follering arter her, and
to save her tarna black smoky noisy
neck she could'n' get clear of them.
don't know whether they scared her
up or no, but here she come foaming
at the mouth-with her teeth chock
fall Of burnin red hot Goals, and she
pitched right straight at me as if she
was going into me like a thousand of
brick-l couldn't stand it any longer,
so wheeled round and broke down
the road, and began to make gravel
fly in every direction. No sooner had
done that than she split right after
me, and every jump ! made she
squealed like a thousand wild cats |!
She begin 10 gain on me comin' up "a
little hill, but we came round IA pint to
straight level in the road. Now.
thinks ], Pll gin you ginger, as am
great on dead level, SO | pulled to it
and soon got myself under full speed,
and then she began to yelp and howl
and cough and stamp and come on
full chIsel, and made the hull airth
shake. But kept on before her,
bouncing at the rate 20 feet every
pop, till got 10 turn of the road,
and was under such headway that
! couldn't turn, so tumbled headover
heels down bank by house, and
landed with my head and shoulders
cosmo'Iick right into szviU barrel,
and my feet stuck out behind, and up
in the air! Just at the time the loco,
motive found had got away from it,
commenced splitting hot water into
me, and just literally spattered it all
over me. ! thought in my soul that
Mount Vesuvius had busted some
place in the neighborhood. But do
you suppose s'aid there long? No,
sir! Lust walked right through that
barrel and come out the other end SO
quick that it really looked ashamed
of itself.


"Now, here J am, a rale propellng
double revolving locomotive Snolly
Goster, ready to attack any thing but
combination of Thunder.lightning-
smoke -railroad-iron and hot water"
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