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Bewildered, he took them from his waistcoat-pocket, gave them to the baggage-master, and went hastily away.
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With a whoop like an Indian war-whoop the cars ran into a shed — they stopped — the pickpocket got up — I got up too — the baggage-master came to the door: “This gentleman has the checks for my baggage,” said I, pointing to the thief.
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It was unprecedented, but, thoroughly rural in his taste for sensation, the baggage-master leaped to the bottom step of the nearest car and spoke to a brakeman.
Jimsy The Christmas Kid Leona Dalrymple
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You will find the baggage-master, the cook, the Professor of English Literature, and the College President in the same company.
What Two Children Did Charlotte E. Chittenden
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But anxious to return home, after his long absence, he resigned his position, determined to take advantage of a train going east, and in which he could get a position as assistant baggage-master on the homeward-bound trip, which would pay him for a couple of months 'service, thereby giving him a larger sum to carry to his family.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood Prentiss Ingraham
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But the romance of rolling stock has yet to be disengaged, and the inspired conductor or bardic baggage-master destined to do that is yet in the shell.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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I was the plaintiff, Crene chief evidence, baggage-master both defendant and examining-counsel.
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We paid quite freely for our brief monopoly of the railroad to the superintendent, engineer, stoker, poker, switch-tender, brakeman, baggage-master, and every other official in one.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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Then the baggage-master, in anguish of soul, trots out his subordinates, one after another, --
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There were four men in the car: Bob Donkin, coming back from a holiday trip somewhere up the line; MacNicoll, the baggage-master; Nulty, the express messenger -- and Hawkeye.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews
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