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  • "Want a return-trip ticket?" the friendly station-agent suggested.

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  • He would elbow his way to the gate, scold about the delay of the train, declaim against the station-agent, the company, the government; say to

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  • The railway company soon obtained another station-agent, but it was some years before the town got another mayor.

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  • In 1883 the Texas Pacific station-agent was elected mayor.

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  • "Say, Smith," he remarked to the station-agent, who was gazing at

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  • "Ya-as, kind o '," agreed the station-agent, tilting back critically.

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  • "Baldwin fa'm?" and the station-agent scratched his ear.

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  • The station-agent sat on a tilted-up box and discussed the new arrivals with one of his ever-present cronies.

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  • As the old driver slapped the reins on the placid horse's woolly back, the station-agent turned to Smith.

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  • The station-agent nodded a condescending agreement, and cocked his foot on another box.

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