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car, so I sat up in the smoker and tried to look 

 Avise. 



At Denver we had coupled on our train a 

 carload of real live sports, most of them being 

 from San Francisco. I remember finishing 

 the lunch the day we left Denver, and when 

 we got into New Mexico we struck a blizzard, 

 and the block system stopped us for three days, 

 two days of which we had no food. And I 

 might say at this point that real sports are not 

 good humored when a train is up to its sides 

 in snow, especially when the buffet is empty. 

 ]My memory was that I had hurried over the 

 lunch I had brought from Oregon, so I looked 

 through the train and found it in the smoking 

 car under the seat. I invited the man with 

 the biggest diamonds to have a bite with me, 

 and as we struck the carcasses of the chickens 

 and got them warmed up again, we went over 

 them and over them with much care and com- 

 fort. 



Finally a snow plow came to us and we pro- 

 ceeded slowly, arriving at Fort Worth, Texas, 

 Tuesday evening, and the fight was set for 

 the next night, and as the regular train would 

 not get there in time, the car of sports paid 



