Some years ago, when the bedding was not supposed to be as
fat as it ought to be, and the pillows were accused of being
constructed upon the homeopathic principle, a New Englander
got on a railroad car one night. Now, it is a remarkable fact
that a New Englander never goes to sleep in one of these cars.
He lies awake all night, thinking how he can improve upon every
device and patent in sight. He poked his head out of the upper
berth at midnight, hailed a porter and said, “Say, have you
got such a thing as a corkscrew about you?” “We don’t ’low no
drinkin’ sperits aboa’d these yer cars, sah,” was the reply.
“’Tain’t that,” said the Yankee, “but I want to get hold on to
one of your pillows that has kind of worked its way into my
ear.”--HORACE PORTER.
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