It's the absolute truth." "Why, there are three or four men on wages at every station." "I know it.

And the station-business doesn't pay for the sheep-dip to sanctify their coffee with.

It's just as I say.

And accommodating?
Why, if you shake a rag the train will stop in the midst of the wilderness to pick you up.

All that kind of politics costs, you see.
And then, besides, any town that has a good many votes and wants a fine station, gets it.