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Heard In The Freight Yard

By E. B. Jerome

(A reprint from Tractor and Gas Engine Review, Nov. 1918), Sent to us by Ted E. J. Worrall, Star Route, Box 62 Loma, Montana 59460

It was a freight yard, located in an energetic dirty city which boasts of the volume of implements that are distributed through it each year.

It was that portion of the yard sacred to tractors. Busy switch engines were shunting in cars loaded with new tractors, who under the stimulation of attendants, snorted as they felt their sparks and rolled out of the cars onto the long platforms, and then down the runway to the big tractor stables.

In one corner, there was a disconsolate group of old tractors who looked as if they had been out on a week's drunk. It was in this corner that the tractors conversed life as they knew it and insulted the reputations of their ancestors, the designers.

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