Progresive Retail Merchant of Texas, Volume 1, Number 2, July 1915 Page: 46
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46 PROGRESSIVE PRET'AIL MERCHANT OF TEXAS
THE IRISH BRAKEMAN.
"There, now; you've played thunder. Sure, and may the divel fly away
with the dom cooler. I've played the divel, hea, and by this St. Patrick's
day in the morning, its me own foot I be after breaking and playing thunder
with. Ouch! Begaurles! Say, bring me some of the red linimint you'se
be having in your flask the day before yesterday. Say, that's right now,
laugh; laugh, you dam heathan; devil a bit of good it dose to ask for
anything and you'se be a trying to shake the caboose off the track!"
The conversation above mentioned happened on the M. & O. railroad
between the head breakman and the caboose breakman, just after fast
freight No. 38 reached the terminal of this road. Joe Thomas, being an
old head, of course, had the caboose job, and Mike Jenkins, a student, having
been sent out on his maiden trip, of course had to follow the hog, as
the engine is commonly called among therailroad boys. After putting his
engine away and coming to the caboose, Mike had to go and bring the cooler
back to the "dog house"-another expression for the caboose in railrod circles-the
cooler having been put on a hot box some few stations before
reaching the terminal. After going some ten or twelve cars up the train
and having the cooler nearly off the hot box, and having a hard time to
figure how to get it off. It didn't improve Mike's temper any to have
the switch engine catch the caboose and throw it to the house track,
We Are Members of the Retail Merchants Association
ESTABLISHED 1865
CARL MAYER
Gi1 i_ allmark 3rtwler
High Grade Stock of
Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry
Full Line of HALLMARK SPECIALS 618 Cong. Ave.
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Capital City Advertising Association. Progresive Retail Merchant of Texas, Volume 1, Number 2, July 1915, book, July 1915; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth41246/m1/46/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.