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1 i S C E L L A X K O r S.biGVOR Burz.—A very funny transaction transpired on one of our New England railroads, a few days since, t passenger was superintending the operation of transferring his baggage from a porters cart to th-' baggage ■:ar} and when the baggage-master placed a long black box upon one end m the car. he was startled by a voice crying out—*• Don’t! don’t stand rue on my head !” The bagirai'e-mnste., who by the way was about thick • -aded as a.iy of the officers of the old Colony -oad, stared in rotmd-oyed wonder.— The occupant of the box repeated with some impatience :•'I'm on my head. I tell you! Turn me over quick!’’The frightened baggage master, with considerable trepidation, placed the box in a horizontal position, when the voice cried out—That won't do! You’ve placed me on my face. 0!0!”The manipulator of trunks and carpetbags reversed the position of the troubles!..t,c box. when a sort of grunt of satisfaction issued from within, and wiping the perspiration from his brow, he addressed the owner of the baggage, a comica! looking little man. with large eyes and iron gray hair, who was just walking rapidly towards the passenger cars, with—I sav! look here 1 ou must pay for this yo .-ig gentleman in the box.”••Oh pa” w*s the reply: 1 have carried him more than fifty thousand miles upon railroads, and never paid his tare yet.”‘‘Can't help it. You can’t smuggle nobody over this ?er road; and if you don’t fork over I’ll set him out on the platform, and leave him standing on his head; you kin depend on that, old feller.”Hie incensed official was about suiting the action to the word, when the conductor of th^ttraiu approached the disputants, and Tie recognised in the p eprietor of the box no less a personage than the renowned Signor Blitz, the ventriloquist and wizard. The conductor had witnessed the Signor’s performances in Boston more than once, arid when he under*: lt;od that the only occupant of tile said ' x was the automaton boy “Bobby,” who figures in the ventriloquial scenes during the entertainments of the Wizard, he readily allowed him to pass as a “dead head.After me train hud gone, the perplexed baggage-mas'.cr found in one of his vest pockets a quarter, which he declares must have been placed there by magic.—Boston Herald.
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The Planters Banner
Franklin, Louisiana, US
Thu, Mar 24, 1853
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