Text Appearing Before Image: Good idea. (Does it.) And now where s Willis? 7TYILLIS — Tickets, please. PjUEEN—Yes, for the matrimonial line. How would you like to be a fairy ticket-taker?7TVILLIS —On the Chicago & Alton? QUEEN — That is the statute. 7TYILLIS — It is one of the oldest traditions of this road that none of its employes can possibly be ill-bred, particularly to a lady. I am yours.QUEEN — And now the only way to save our tribe from annihilation is for allyou gentlemen to obey the law. Remember that any fairy who marriesother than a Chicago & Alton man must die. (Ail shudder.)QTREPHON — And I, being in the Alton Road, will immediately employ youall and absorb all your lines. It was bound to come to that sooner or later.OUNSELOR — The old wife is better than no wife, so here we all go to fairy-land. * ^ (The Alton tiniform instantly covers them all, and their haggard, care-worn ex-pressions are replaced by the happy, seraphic looks of men who habitually workfor the C. b A. R. R.) Text Appearing After Image:
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