the high tower on

Bunker's Hill, and then, with his o oeyes closed and the box

firmly clasped in his arms, he threw him- sclt down,down, down to death.

From Ncw York to Toronto, and from the Niagara [alls to Cleveland, all good raillway men revere the memory of Bill Kric.

The trunk did not break m the terrible fall that killed poor 3l Atter his death, the sceret came out. You scee, Sam Slutters,

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the next best trunk-smasher on the line (who was a mcan skunk, for all his good

qualities) had a great jealousy o Bill.

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he just put that box in his way after he had

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hlled it tigl}t full with =andwiches and buns froman Enclish

refreshment oM, and riveted the sides fArmly to

the adamantine con- tents,

Nobodyv could do anything with that box, =0 thev put o brass plate on 1t and stuck 1t over Bill's head by way of 4 gravestone. On the brass plate the tollow- mne cpitaph (adapted from the Greck of Thermopyvla) has been engraved (—

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Fanderbilt, the king of the rairoads of the New World, that Bidl e died o avenge lhe lonour o) e Ratlway Coimn- pany.”

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