The machine took
hold of the soldier and the engineer jerked. The man had one leg torn off,
and the seat of his overcoat was ruined. He wouldn't try again, so they
let the woman step on the platform. The engineer turned it the wrong way,
and the car seemed full of compressed air, and a smell of limberger cheese
pervaded the premises. When the smoke cleared off the woman was not to be
found. After voting the machine a success the party started for Milwaukee.
On nearing the city a pair of wooden shoes were seen in the air coming
down, and they lit in the the canal by the tannery. A pair of corsets
struck on Plankinton's packing house, and sections of spinal cord, and one
leg of a pair of red drawers came down on the Soldier's home, and hair was
found on the top of the car. It is thought the engineer loaded the air
bouncer too heavy, and that it kicked. However, Col. Johnson was not
discouraged, and will soon have his patent on all cars. The husband of the
Polack woman wanted Johnson to pay him three dollars, but he said he
didn't want to buy the woman. All he wanted was to hire her, anyway. Col.
Johnson is a great inventor. It was he that invented the stomach
pump, and the automatic candle enunciator, for awakening guests in the
night to take early trains. The latter he sold to Mr.
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