Riding the blind baggage or the bumpers gives me all the excitement I wants, or all the gambling chancet either; others can have the rods fur all of me.

And they IS some people ackshally says they likes 'em best.
A good place, if it is winter time, is the feed rack over a cattle car, fur the heat and steam from all them steers in there will keep you warm.
But don't crawl in no lumber car that is only loaded about half full, and short lengths and bundles of laths and shingles in her; fur they is likely to get to shifting and bumping.

Baled hay is purty good sometimes.

Myself, not being like these bums that is too proud to work, I have often helped the fireman shovel coal and paid fur my ride that-a-way.

But an empty, fur gineral purposes, will do about as well as anything.
This feller Looney Hogan that was with me was a kind of a harmless critter, and he didn't know jest where he was going, nor why.