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will make you a proposition : Here is my address, and 

 these gentlemen know that I am responsible ; you take 

 the ticket and turn it in, and if you are even repri- 

 manded for it by your directors, write to me, and I will 

 send you the money for the ticket, upon your promise 

 as a gentleman that you will send the ticket to me 

 again ; for I shall want the ticket.' 



" The passengers said, l That was very fair and would 

 avoid all trouble.' The conductor said, l It is very fair, 

 but I sha'n't do it, that's all; I want another ticket out 

 of you, sir.' I said, ' I shall not give you one.' He 

 said, ' Then I shall request you to get off this train at 

 Stamford.' I replied, ' I shall just as politely decline 

 to do so.' He said, ' Then I will put you off.' I replied 

 in general terms, and with some natural heat, that I did 

 not believe he was able to do it. He said, ' I guess I 

 can put you off if I get help enough.' I told him that 

 was undoubtedly true, but warned him that I would 

 pursue the matter further, if he brought his roughs into 

 the car and laid hands upon me. 



" At this moment the elderly gentleman who sat in 

 front of me rose and said, ' Mr. Conductor, I am a " rail- 

 road man" anci in my judgment this gentleman's position 

 is correct. If he brings it to an issue, I think he will 

 beat you ; but if you think he is not correct, but trying 

 to evade his fare, the proper way is to telegraph to New 

 Haven, and have a policeman come aboard and quietly 

 arrest him ; that is business-like ; but don't you take 

 the law into your own hands and throw him off the 

 train, for that is not done nowadays upon any respect- 

 able railroad.' I said, ' Certainly, I will submit to a 

 policeman, but I will not be thrown off by him.' The 

 conductor sneeringly replied, ' We don't do business in 



