Author: Emmerich Manual Training High School

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9780282885335

Excerpt from The Booster, Vol. 22: January 1920 Deciding. To have a little fun I called the porter. I looked at him steadily for a couple of minutes, and with one stroke of my hand made white the black ened face of William Gaddis. He told me a long tale of woe about having to take this job to get to New Orleans where he expected to raise snow balls for the southern children and become rich. Just. Then an, important looking man, in the person of Henry Weghorst, laid a hand on William's shoulder and said, You've played enough today, William, you must come to your compartment with me. On the side Henry'told me that William had lost his mind over a checker game and was being taken to an asylum in New Orleans. He only imagined he was a porter on the train. After hearing of this sad case, I could not think of the joke I had started to play, so went to sleep. After being asleep for about five minutes I was suddenly awakened by a voice commanding, Hands up! Your money or your life. As I had no money this did not worry me very much. After relieving the occupants of the Pullman of their valuables, the robber started to leave, when a little man Owen Mogg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.