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The American Joe Miller

by Robert Kempt

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Damaging the Engine — 384

A man was sitting on the track of the New London road, when the train came along and pitched him head over heels into the bushes. The train stopped and backed to pick up the body, when the man coolly informed the conductor, as he brushed the dirt from his coat sleeves, that if he “had damaged the engine any he was ready to settle for it,” and walked off home.

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