Now if you'd been a brakeman on a Chicago train, as I was a few years ago, and seen the animals run in for the stock yards, you might talk about cruelty.

"She won't move just yet," answered the brakeman with a sickly grin.

I remember how adorable you were, while I was a bundle of dynamite, ready to explode and send the stolid, uncommunicative conductor and brakemen into a journey through space, when we suffered that long delay coming from California.

And then from the brakeman at the other end of the car: "You really are!

"May be an hour, but more likely it will be six or eight," said one of the brakemen to Tom.

A brakeman of flashy attire, with fine leather showing to the knees, strolled off and up the platform on high heels, haughty as a prince.

He told the brakeman in the caboose to go up and put the man off at the next stop.