2/18 "I don't see anything the matter with 'em. I ride in em." Thorsen was a heavy, dusty, tobacco-bestrewn individual of sixty-six, who was a little dull but genial. He was in the paint business, and always wore a very light steel-gray suit much crinkled in the seat and arms. I see the rest of you on board often enough." "Why, I tell you what's the matter with them," replied Kaffrath. The track is no good, and the filthy straw we keep in them in winter is enough to make a person sick. |